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Honey, I shrunk BlackBerry: CEO signals growth stage of bold restructure plan
After three years marked by wave after wave of aggressive cutbacks, employees at BlackBerry Ltd. can finally catch a breather, according to an internal memo from CEO John Chen that fell into the hands of the press on Tuesday. The news hold broad reaching implications for the struggling phone maker that extend far beyond just ...
From chore to value: How HP analytics transformed data protection| #HPdiscover
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co.’s acquisition of Autonomy didn’t go smoothly would be a tremendous understatement, but three years, an $8.8 billion writedown and several lawsuits later, the deal is paying dividends. That accomplishment didn’t come for free: it’s the result of HP overcoming the many potholes that sprung up on the road to the ...
Not even if they paid us! Globalfoundries turns down $1B from IBM to take over chip biz
IBM has reportedly hit its first major bump on the road to rid itself of the low-margin chip business after long-time supplier Globalfoundries Inc. refused a $1 billion offer to take over its struggling semiconductor operations. If true, the collapse of the negotiations with the chip maker marks a setback for CEO Virginia Rometty, who ...
Equinix cements position in hybrid cloud with Blue Box support
The promise of a hybrid cloud that makes it possible to shift workloads between on- and off-premise environments based on the specific business requirements at hand is certainly compelling, but what it has in allure it lacks in practicality. The ability to provision and move applications across geographically distributed requires meeting a host of difficult ...
Weeding out bot traffic the Big Data way, comScore makes first acquisition in years
Data science has proven an invaluable asset in identifying malicious activity on the corporate network, a benefit that comScore Inc. is looking to put in the hands of online marketers with the purchase of MdotLabs Inc., its first acquisition in three years. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal. The Wisconsin-based startup, which spun ...
After 9-month beta, RightScale launches multi-cloud analytics platform
From Netflix Inc.’s decision to open-source the Ice utility it uses for tracking internal Amazon Web Services (AWS) consumption to the recent move by Rackspace Inc. to simplify its pricing model, the industry’s collective efforts have helped make the public cloud more transparent than it was just a few years ago. But although monitoring individual ...
The human side to data governance | #MITIQ
There are as many opinions on the role of the chief data officer (CDO) as there definitions of the emerging position, but few are as well-informed as that of professor Yang Lee from Northwestern University. She helped author one of the single most comprehensive studies on the subject to date, the findings of which were ...
Sqrrl ups Hadoop support through integration with Hunk visualization
The security industry is increasingly embracing Hadoop as the standard for large-scale analytics. Sqrrl, Inc. is now offering to help customers make more of the batch processing platform – and their machine-generated logs – through newly expanded integration with Splunk, Inc.’s Hunk data visualization tool. The venture-backed Sqrrl was founded in 2012 by former NSA ...
Western Digital claims breakthrough in flash storage performance
Move over, NAND; there’s a new flash architecture in town. HGST Inc., the enterprise storage supplier that merged into hard drive kingpin Western Digital Corp. two years ago, has unveiled a proof-of-concept that it claims surpasses the current gold standard for solid-state memory by a wide margin. The subsidiary claims that the prototype, which is ...
What you missed in Cloud: piecemealing the hybrid computing revolution
The hybrid cloud offers tremendous opportunities for driving operational efficiencies in the enterprise, but poses an equally great set of challenges that the vendor community has yet to address in its entirety. Fast progress is being made on changing that, however. The number of individual barriers holding organizations back from adopting the new paradigm of ...
