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IBM’s data integration and governance boss on the future of analytics | #IBMinsight
Ritika Gunnar, VP of information integration and governance for IBM’s $30 billion analytics business, said that her focus within the division isn’t nearly as complicated as her lengthy job title makes it out to be. Managing an organization’s data effectively boils down to merging the disparate metrics into a usable form and ensuring the combined whole is ...
Cisco splurges $452.5M on real-time network security provider Lancope
As the world’s top network equipment supplier, Cisco Systems Inc. will support much of the traffic from the estimated 50 billion connected devices that are expected to come online by the end of the decade. That responsibility encompasses not only meeting bandwidth and uptime requirements but also security, which is what its latest acquisition is ...
Oracle debuts first systems with 10-billion-transistor SPARC M7 chip
Oracle Corp. certainly knows how to launch a hardware product. The company introduced its newest line of SPARC-based systems at its annual customer conference this morning with a list of more than 20 broken processing records spanning roughly half a dozen workload categories from data analytics to bespoke customer applications. The credit goes to the new ...
Akanda supercharges its OpenStack networking service with Liberty release
Hot on the heels of the latest iteration of OpenStack hitting general availability, Akanda Inc. is releasing an upgrade to its complementary network orchestration service that promises to greatly improve the efficiency and reliability of production deployments. Backing up that lofty claim is a case study from one of the oldest names in the public cloud. ...
What you missed in Big Data: The language of analytics
The ability to clearly articulate business goals is as important when interacting with databases as it is for interacting with colleagues, except often considerably more difficult. The issue returned to the center of attention last week when Neo Technology Inc. released the specification for the query language powering its widely-used graph store under an open-source license. The ...
What you missed in Cloud: New beginnings
The competitive lines of the public cloud were redrawn once again last week after two of the biggest names on the scene made major changes to their strategic positions. EMC Corp. set off the shift with the announcement of plans to integrate the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service assets scattered throughout its federation into one big division. The news came ...
Facebook brings its trendy mobile development framework to Heroku
While the world has its attention turned to the revamped search capability Facebook Inc. is rolling out for end-users, Mark Zuckerberg is marking an equally significant milestone in his plans to capture the developer community. The social networking giant has added the option to run its popular Parse mobile framework on the even more widely used Heroku ...
IT buyout wave continues as SolarWinds goes private for $4.5 billion
SolarWinds Inc. has become the third publicly-traded enterprise technology vendor to move off the stock exchange in so many weeks after agreeing to sell all of its outstanding stock to a duo of powerful investors for a hefty 43.5 percent premium over its last closing price prior to the announcement of the news. Added up, ...
Numerify bags $37.5 million to bring cloud-based BI into the IT department
The wording of the term notwithstanding, business intelligence can prove just as valuable of an asset for an organization’s technology practitioners as in the profit centers that have traditionally relied on it the most. That’s the pitch that helped Numerify Inc. raise $37.5 million in a third round of funding announced this morning that will sponsor ...
Latest EMC earnings provide clues of post-takeover future
With the countdown to its merger into Dell Inc. now officially underway, EMC Corp.’s latest earnings report is set to receive a great deal of scrutiny from an industry keen on understanding the new balance of power that will emerge in the aftermath. Within the numbers lie the first hints of the direction that the ...
