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BloomReach Launches Data-Driven Web Marketing Platform
BloomReach pulled the curtains back on its new Continuous Quality Management (CQM) platform, a so-called web relevance engine that leverages machine learning to gauge the quality of web pages. CQM breaks down quality into four metrics: relevance, popularity, uniqueness and freshness. Relevance is determined based on the correlation between the content of a page and ...
Top 2 Mega Trends for CIOs + Tips for the Vendors Selling to Them
Marina Levinson, the founding CEO of CIO Advisory Group, shared her insights into the IT market in a recent interview with Jeff Frick and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Levinson has been advising business and technology leaders for over 25 years, so she knows a thing or two about the industry. She made sure to highlight the ...
GM’s $130M Data Center Takes After Facebook, Runs Hadoop
General Motors has abandoned its multi-billion dollar outsourcing agreements with HP and other providers in favor of an internal hyperscale environment that runs Hadoop on low-cost x86 servers. This week the carmaker launched its first data center in Warren, Michigan. The $130 million facility, the first of two, can hold 20,000 square feet worth of ...
Big Data Must Be More Consumable : Overhype Drives Workers to Take Matters Into their Own Hands
Big Data’s been overhyped and is destined to become a buzz kill of a buzz word, largely because the promise of Big Data has left a huge gap between potential and actual application. Setting out to understand this gap, Kapow Software recently commissioned IDG Research Services to identify the top Big Data pain points for ...
Japanese Cloud App ChatWork Launches in the U.S.
ChatWork, the startup behind the increasingly popular cloud collaboration solution of the same name, is making its official entry into the U.S. market with the introduction of video chat and screenshare capabilities. The enhancements are available for download as a single, light-weight browser plugin. The Japanese firm promises to roll out a fully integrated version ...
HP Bolsters Storage Lineup with New Solutions, Partner Program
Hewlett-Packard just refreshed its storage portfolio with a new system, major upgrades to its StoreEasy series NAS boxes, and a set of incentives for channel partners and SMBs that leverage its hardware solutions. The big addition to the vendor’s lineup is the MSA 2040, a new entry-level disk array for SMBs. HP touts that the ...
Be Fearless with Work Data : NetApp Launches New iPad App for Office Compliance
The long-standing issue with BYOD is security — how to juggle cloud access with compliance in the enterprise, and who’s responsibility is this? Storage solutions provider NetApp has taken on the burden, introducing a new application that enables end-users to view sensitive information from their mobile devices without fear of data leakage. The app is ...
Wall Street Remains Cautious Ahead of Cisco’s Third Quarter Earnings Call
Cisco is set to report its Q3 earnings on Wednesday. The company hopes to boost its income by a solid 5 to 7 percent in fiscal year 2013, but the soon-to-be-announced results for the quarter ending April 27 will most likely undermine this objective. Cisco expects earnings to improve between 4 and 6 percent in ...
Cisco Certifies MDS Switch for QLogic’s Multi-Purpose Adapters
Cisco’s newly launched MDS 9710 Multilayer Director has been certified for use in networking environments that leverage QLogic’s 2600 and 8300 Series FlexSuite adapters. The MDS 9710 is the successor of Cisco’s 9500 series SAN storage switch. It supports both file and block services and offers 24 terabits of bandwidth. QLogic’s 2600 and 8300 models ...
Big Data Review: Cloud, Integration and More
Last week SAP introduced a cloud-based version of its in-memory database, two major Big Data vendors entered a partnership, and Russian ad specialist Tinkoff Digital adopted NoSQL to realize efficiencies across the board. On Wednesday SAP pulled the curtains back on HANA Enterprise Cloud, the hosted version of its speedy in-memory database. The German business ...
