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Tegile Expands to Europe, Launches Promotional Charity Campaign
This week Tegile announced that it has opened an office in the United Kingdom to strengthen customer ties in the region. Paul Silver will lead the London branch as the company’s VP of Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Silver has worked in the IT industry for 20 years. According to Tegile the executive established ...
NetApp Taps into Cash Stockpile to Distract Investors from Q4 Decline
NetApp’s fourth quarter earnings failed to meet the Street’s expectations, but its stock price shot up by more than 2.5 percent. This increase reflected the market’s positive response to the news that the company will issue a dividend and spend a sizable portion of its $7 billion cash stockpile on stock repurchases. For the quarter ...
Orchestrate.io Rethinks Database Architecture, Scales the API Instead
Big Data is getting bigger, and IT departments are having a hard time keeping up with it. Many organizations are leveraging a variety of different databases to store their information, usually Oracle for their traditional workloads and NoSQL for their Big Data, but this mix-and-match approach is far from ideal. In comes Orchestrate.io. The Portland-based ...
David Floyer on Dell’s Decision to Lay Low in the Cloud Services Market
Dell made an interesting move this week. The vendor launched a partner program that will allow customers to buy cloud services through its ecosystem, an important change of strategy that Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer views positively. He explained why in a recent interview with SiliconAngle’s Kristen Feledy. The way he sees it, Dell ...
The Internet of Things is the Next Source of Value for CIOs
The billions of sensors and connected devices that make up the Internet of Things are a powerful source of business insights and competitive advantage, according to The 1610 Group founder and managing consultant Scott Lowe. He provided an overview of this topic in his latest Wikibon alert. Lowe points that Big Data doesn’t always live ...
Fast-Food News for Today’s Professionals: Newsle “Consumerizes” Big Data
Newsle, an ambitious San Fransico-based startup that specializes in news aggregation, just raised $1.65 million from American City Business Journals, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. Maveron, DFJ, Transmedia Capital and angel investors Launny Steffens and Rockwell Schnabel also participated in the round. Whitney Shaw, the president of the American City Business Journal, is joining Newsle’s ...
QLogic Has Ace Up Its Sleeve After CEO’s Surprise Resignation
Simon Biddiscombe, the chief executive officer and president of QLogic, left his post to “pursue other opportunities” in an abrupt move that took many by surprise. Chief technology officer Jean Hu has assumed the role of interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers thinks that Biddiescombe, who joined QLogic ...
Nutanix Gets Greenlight from Citrix, Releases Reference Architecture
Nutanix boasts that it has achieved Citrix Ready status after completing a “rigorous” process to ensure that its offering is fully compatible with XenDesktop. The certification is a big win for Nutanix because virtualization is one of the top use cases for its flagship Virtual Computing Platform appliance, and Citrix is the VMware of VDI. ...
Dell Cautious about Icahn’s Bid Amidst Push to Reform Declining Sales
Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southwest Asset Management have joined forces to buy Dell in a move that put Silver Lake Partners and founder Michael Dell in the backseat. Silver Lake and Dell are offering $24.4 billion for the company, the equivalent of $13.65 a share. Icahn, Southwest and other investors believe that the firm ...
For Data Artists, Not Stats Nerds : Alteryx Bags $12M for Simplified Analytics
Alteryx, an Irvine-based firm whose stated goal is to “humanize” Big Data, just raised $12 million in financing from SAP Ventures and Toba Capital, a recently established VC led by Quest Software founder Vinny Smith. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to $18 million. “SAP Ventures saw the potential in Alteryx in 2011 ...
