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Alibaba expands overseas as part of Cloud push against AWS
Alibaba Group, China’s top e-commerce firm, is expected to overtake Amazon by 2015 to become the world’s largest online retailer. Unsatisfied, the Hangzhou-based company is now opening a new front against its American rival with an ambitious plan to secure a foothold in the global cloud services market, which Gartner says surpassed $130 billion in ...
Google revamps billing to make the Cloud more transparent
Following the example of Amazon, Google is making it easier for developers to keep tabs on their cloud deployments with a new feature that offers visibility into the resource utilization of applications running on its infrastructure. Currently in preview, Billing Export is pegged as a more convenient alternative to managing costs from the Google Cloud ...
Watch out Accumulo: IBM wins patent for fully homomorphic encryption
Decision makers are breaking down information silos to gain a better view of their companies and customers, but successfully implementing analytics at an organizational level is much easier said than done. In a world of tight budgets, CIOs seeking to tap into data from multiple sources have to meet performance objectives and keep risks in ...
Dell, HP receive top customer satisfaction ratings in the enterprise
While traditional retailers are struggling to match their online rivals in providing positive shopping experiences (a trend that IBM says will be reversed in the next five years,) some big name enterprise vendors are already dominating customer satisfaction rankings. The latest survey from Technology Business Research, a New Hampshire-based market analysis firm, found that Dell ...
Tech giants boost OpenStack ecosystem with new software
OpenStack has come long way since its release in July 2010. Originally developed by Rackspace and NASA, the project is now managed by an industry-backed foundation comprised of representatives from a wide range of companies. Red Hat and IBM, two of the most prominent OpenStack contributors, are pushing to make the platform more attractive for ...
HP Big Data execs go in-depth on analytics | #HPDiscover
HP Autonomy global lead Brian Weiss and Shilpa Lawande, HP Vertica’s vice president of engineering, appeared on theCUBE at Discover 2013 for an in-depth discussion of the technology titan’s Big Data value proposition. Vertica 7, the latest version of the analytic database, launched a few weeks prior to the event’s kick off in Barcelona. Lowndes ...
Oracle goes after Salesforce with $1.5 billion Responsys buy
The long-standing rivarly between Oracle and cloud CRM kingpin Salesforce.com turned up a notch last Friday with the database maker’s acquisition of online marketing specialist Responsys. The deal is valued at $27 per share, a 38 percent premium over the firm’s closing price on Thursday and the equivalent of about $1.5 billion. The San Bruno, ...
HP marketing VPs talk customer engagement | #HPDiscover
Big Data is changing the way marketers identify and target their audiences, enabling brands to gain greater insight into competitive dynamics and realize higher returns on their customer acquisition investments. HP Vertica vice president of marketing Chris Selland and his Autonomy counterpart Gabriele Di Piazza appeared on theCUBE at the recent Discover summit to share ...
Weekly security review: NSA spying, RATs and a 40M Black Friday sting
It’s been another action-packed week in the world of cybersecurity, with the NSA stoking more controversy over its global intelligence gathering practices. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found that the spy agency’s telephone data surveillance program is illegal, and likely unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by one Larry Klayman, who ...
Internet of Things review: software giants battle for connected dominance
The race towards the Internet of Things is heating up, with Google upping the ante on wearable tech by rolling out a set of new features for its buzzed-about smart eyewear product. The latest update to Google Glass introduces the ability to snap a photo with a wink even when the display is off. The ...
