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ServiceNow extends ecosystem + vertical focus with online community exchange
Historically, IT organizations had no choice but to use hard-coded process flows and spreadsheets for service relationship management. That not only necessitated significant time investments in manual data entry but also made it considerably more difficult to administer large-scale environments where information would inevitably get scattered across hundreds if not thousands of individual files, leading ...
Meet Factual, the self-fashioned force multiplier for Big Data | #CubeConversations
Context, not individual data points, will enable the next wave of enterprise applications, the only question is who will get there first. Leading the race for holistic analytics in the social sphere is the Los Angeles-based Factual, a low-profile startup with a unique approach to personalization that, according to vice president of product Tyler Bell, ...
Oracle continues hardware drive, even as rivals move up the stack
Even as cloud computing and the commoditization of the data center shift IT spending from physical infrastructure to software, Oracle is continuing to swim against the current with a level of confidence not shared by its traditional rivals, most of whom have already gotten swept up in the tide. Both in the midst of a ...
Red Hat infrastructure head: Applications to transcend physical deployment models | #RHSummit
Hybrid computing is a natural evolution of IT service delivery that extends far beyond the current discussion around data centers and cloud services, according to Red Hat senior vice president of infrastructure Tim Yeaton, transcending the underlying physical deployment models without regard to type or scale. As he sees it, in an era where data ...
What to watch at IBM Impact 2014: From SoftLayer app store to open-source hardware | #IBMimpact
The public cloud theme has predictably carried over from IBM’s February Pulse conference to its executive-oriented Impact summit in Las Vegas this week, where of many of the products that debuted three months ago are making an appearance once again in the company’s newly introduced enterprise app store. The rollout represents the latest and one ...
SoftWatch analytics tool tracks Office usage, reduces licensing costs
License optimization startup SoftWatch promises to help CIOs address Microsoft Office usage inefficiency as their companies contemplate transitioning from on-premise applications to cloud services. Tel Aviv-based SoftWatch today announced its new namesake online analytics tool that the company says helps CIOs identify savings opportunities based on Microsoft Office usage statistics. Despite the rapidly growing adoption of ...
How Fusion-io’s latest flash interface changes the game for web-scale applications | #CubeConversations
Unable to keep pace with Moore’s law, traditional disk storage has become the weak link in corporate IT environments, with the ever-widening I/O gap between processors and mechanical drivers (and historically just as significantly, the absence of a genuinely viable alternative) leaving developers no choice but to build artificial restrictions into their software. Flash has ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop applications Watson at the forefront
Data-driven applications returned to the headlines this week after Hortonworks announced that it will bundle the open source Cascading development framework into its flagship Hadoop distribution. Created and maintained by a company called Concurrent, Cascading is a Java-based abstraction layer that allows users to take advantage of the batch processing platform without mastering MapReduce or ...
Weekly Cloud review: from containers to Hadoop-powered hybrid security
It’s been yet another eventful week in the cloud, with Amazon adding support for the open source Docker Linux containerization engine to its Elastic Beanstalk service, which is used by application developers to automate certain administrative tasks such as capacity provisioning and load balancing. Practically unknown just a year ago, Docker is gaining a tremendous ...
IBM pushes the envelope on open source with latest Power servers
A week and a half after IBM Cloud and Smart Infrastructure head Deepak Advani took to the stage at Red Hat Summit to detail how big of a role open source technology has in his company’s long-term vision, Big Blue is putting its money where its mouth is with the introduction of new Power systems ...
