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Why rapid tech change demands better internal consensus-building | #HPDiscover
When an enterprise sets out to streamline operations or pursue new business opportunities, technology considerations often jump to the top of the agenda, edging out the important organizational challenges that need to be addressed, said Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Chris Coggrave in a recent appearance on theCUBE. As the chief technologist for the data center giant’s $4.8 billion ...
What you missed in Cloud: Microsoft ups the ante against competitors
Microsoft pulled the curtains back on a landmark update for Azure that takes direct aim at the workloads organizations keep behind the firewall. Coming just over a month after “human error” took down the infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the new release features reliability features that make it possible for users to access on-premise workloads without fear of ...
What you missed in Big Data: Google prospects for cloud analytics gold
It was an unusual week in the analytics ecosystem as Hadoop monetarily stepped aside to let Google occupy the spotlight when it opened its cloud-based alternative to developers with the release of an open-source SDK designed to simplify the creation of Big Data processing services. The move raises the stakes in the race to bring about ...
Flash storage about to hit “hockey stick” growth curve, says HP exec | #HPdiscover
With some forecasters now expecting the cost of flash storage to fall below that of spinning-disk storage within the next couple of years, adoption is starting to rise in what Craig Nunes of Hewlett-Packard Co. described as a “hockey stick” curve during his latest appearance on theCUBE. “If you can get the affordability right on ...
Exact Labs lands $13 million to bring voice recognition to the enterprise
Between Siri on iOS and Google’s rivaling artificial intelligence for Android, voice recognition software has become practically ubiquitous in the consumer world. But corporate applications beyond the call center are still rare. A new startup called Expect Labs Inc. just closed a $13 million funding round for its quest to change that. Its funding comes from ...
Aerospike beefs up NoSQL database with enterprise- and Hadoop-friendly features
Aerospike, Inc. unleashed a broad set of new features for its flagship in-memory database that provides developers with more flexibility in how they build their applications and addresses several key enterprise requirements. The launch marks the biggest update for the platform since the company released the underlying code to the open-source community in June. It’s ...
Google opens cloud-based Hadoop alternative to developers with free SDK
Google on Thursday released a software development kit (SDK) for its cloud-based data crunching engine in an effort to the development of analytic applications against the service. The launch comes seven months after the search giant first unveiled its ambitious plans to steal Hadoop’s thunder. Currently available in limited access, Cloud Dataflow is an evolution of ...
Skytap lands another $35 million for enterprise DevOps platform
Skytap Inc. has landed $35 million in funding from a diverse group of investors to double down on the growing interest in its cloud platform, which takes a new approach to fostering collaboration among operations and engineering professionals. The Seattle-based startup says it has a way to help organizations speed up their software development projects and ...
Report: Big Data only now heading toward inflection point
Business and technology leaders have never been more keen to exploit new sources of information, but most organizations are not yet backing that up with action, according to a recent survey of nearly 400 decision-makers published by Dell. The report sheds new light on the adoption of analytics highlighting that the trend is still very ...
Agricultural analytics startup FarmLogs harvests $10M to expand field operations
FarmLogs Inc. has raised $10 million in a second round of funding to expand its cloud-based analytics service aimed at everyday ranchers. The startup is one of the newest in the crop of new players to take on the mission of bringing analytics to farming in recent years. More established names are also entering the ...
