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Milestone: IBM says mobile devices surpass PCs in holiday e-commerce traffic
Smartphones and tablets accounted for most of the traffic to online retail sites during Thanksgiving, according to new IBM figures. It’s the first time mobile devices have surpassed PCs in generating cyber-sales in the seven years IBM has been measuring activity. Drawing on real-time transactional data from some 8,000 brands around the world, Big Blue ...
Researchers cite major flaws in common social media measurement techniques
Social media offers a treasure trove of real-time data about consumer behavior and sentiment across every imaginable segment of society, but that information loses its value without proper context. And that is proving the downfall of all too many analytics projects today, according to a study from two computer scientists recently published in the journal ...
Docker CEO: Commercial management software in the pipe | #reinvent
Three months after last appearing on theCUBE at VMworld 2014, Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub returned to the mobile studio on the occasion of another major partner’s conference to provide an update on what changed at the industry’s hottest cloud startup in the last quarter. The veteran executive shared a by-now familiar story of breakneck ...
SoftNAS seeks to simplify storage management for the rest of us | #reinvent
Moving to the public cloud is turning into a more attractive alternative to the complexity of running private infrastructure by the week, but the operational challenges higher up the stack become the same as those in on-premise environments. One such priority is managing the configuration and allocation of storage capacity. In a recent interview on theCUBE, SoftNAS ...
Jaspersoft drives vision of BI for the rest of us | #reinvent
Six months after merging into TIBCO Software Inc., Jaspersoft is continuing to spread its vision for embedded business intelligence (BI) to new markets and seek customers who wouldn’t otherwise consider BI solutions, according to cloud veep Karl Van den Berg. The executive, who joined the company as part of the acquisition from his role as ...
AWS public sector boss: Cloud computing unclogging governments everywhere | #reinvent
The government doesn’t exactly have a reputation for staying on top of technology trends, but when it comes to cloud computing, the bureaucratic machine seems to be making an exception. Amazon Web Services (AWS) global public sector vice president Teresa Carlson recently returned to theCUBE to share her firsthand perspective on how the pay-as-you-go model ...
IBM expands mobile device support, endorses Citrix remote access
Continuing its cloud streak, IBM is launching two new services that aim to help both mobile workers and the practitioners keeping an eye on them become more productive. The move underscores a renewed focus on enterprise employees that IBM kicked off with a $100 million investment in user experience that it announced on March. Since then, ...
Massive survey finds worries about online privacy are growing
Privacy may be getting the buzz, but hackers are still what most preoccupies online adults, according to a survey of more than 23,000 people across 24 countries released on Monday. The comprehensive study offers one of the most detailed perspectives yet on how the world has come to perceive the value of the web relative to ...
Host Analytics bags $25 million to bring Big Data to financial pros
Host Analytics Inc. became the latest niche analytics provider to surface on the venture capital radar this week after netting $25 million from a group of prominent investors to accelerate the adoption of its cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) suite. The funding provides a needed boost in a crowded market. Led by database industry veteran Dave ...
IBM targets enterprise developers with latest public cloud updates
IBM is rolling out new enhancements to its emerging public cloud that take direct aim at developers, who are a key focus of mainstream competitors like Amazon Web Services. The highlight of the launch is a dedicated platform-as-a-service option that allows security-conscious organizations to physically isolate their projects from the workloads of other customers. The ...
