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Pentaho Adds MongoDB Support to Newest Solution
Pentaho’s newly released Business Analytics 5.0 platform introduces over 250 major improvements, including expanded support for MongoDB. The company says that the integration lets customers take advantage of the document database to more easily meet “increasing requirements for big data in businesses today.” According to Pentaho, Business Analytics 5.0 is the first BI solution to ...
VMware Reshuffles Board of Directors
VMware announced this week that veteran executive Pamela Craig has taken up the newly vacated board seat of Intel’s Renee James. The virtualization giant said that James resigned from the board to focus on her responsibilities as the chip maker’s president, a post she has held since May. Craig is stepping into James’ shoes after ...
Weekly Big Data Review: Ecosystem Takes the Limelight
The Big Data ecosystem is bustling with newly forged alliances as analytics vendors close in on the traditional enterprise. SAP is leading the charge with an ambitious initiative to add support for “all” Hadoop distributions across its core analytics portfolio. The business intelligence giant announced this week that it has signed separate licensing agreements with ...
After 14 Months, Michael Dell Secures Company Throne
Dell shareholders on Thursday gave Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners the go-ahead to take the company private, thereby ending one of the fiercest IT bidding wars in recent memory. Carl Icahn, the only rival bidder, withdrew his offer three days prior to the vote. Dell and Silver Lake are paying a total of $24.9 ...
Nutanix Hires Industry Veteran to Head Australian HQ
Converged infrastructure vendor Nutanix announced that it has appointed Wayne Neich to head its Sydney office. As Managing Director of the Australian and New Zealand region, the executive will be responsible for “all aspects” of marketing and customer support. Neich brings more than 25 years of sales and business management experience to Nutanix. He is ...
SAP Broadens Big Data Strategy with Predictive Analytics Buy
SAP is hoping to move predictive analytics into the mainstream with the acquisition of KXEN, a San Francisco-based provider of user-friendly statistical forecasting software. No financial terms were disclosed. KXEN offers business users the ability to scan historical data for patterns and correlations that may shed light on future growth opportunities. SAP plans to bake ...
Hadoop Distributors Ally with SAP to Fuse Hadoop into Enterprise BI
Hortonworks and Intel have signed separate reseller agreements with SAP to make their Hadoop distributions more accessible for the nearly 250,000 organizations that use the vendor’s business intelligence software. SAP will redistribute the firms’ platforms and provide enterprise support for customers as part of an initiative to package “all” Hadoop distributions into its analytics lineup. ...
QLogic Extends Adapter Support to Latest Xeon Chips
A day after introducing new adapters for HP ProLiant servers, QLogic added PCI Express 3.0 support for E5-2600/1600 v2 Xeon processors across its entire FlexSuite line. Formerly code-named Ivy Town, the new chips perform up to 50 percent faster than previous generation CPUs. The PCIe 3.0 bus standard lets QLogic’s converged network adapters (CNAs) deliver ...
AppDirect Fuels Growth with Standing Cloud Acquisition, New Funding
AppDirect is bolstering its service brokerage platform with the acquisition of Standing Cloud, a VC-backed provider of application management software that operates out of Boulder, Colorado. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Standing Cloud offers an application orchestration layer that makes it easier for cloud providers to deploy and deliver software-as-a-service solutions. The startup ...
Apple’s Bruce Boston Discusses Visualization and Human Intuition | #tcc13
Bruce Boston of Apple views data science as the shortest and most efficient route to meeting business objectives. The veteran statistician detailed how visualization further empowers data geeks to drive value for their organizations in an interview on theCUBE at this week’s Tableau Customer Conference. “The problem that we have is that I can’t talk ...
