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This Week in Big Data: Case Studies from Finance, Gov’t, and Social Media
A few interesting stories surfaced this week that help shed better light on some of the lesser-covered companies of those willing to harness their customer data. A lot are in a privileged position in this regard, including most in the financial services industry – one of the fastest ones to get knack-deep into the whole ...
Big Data Appliance Firm Clustrix Raises $6.75M
Clustrix is a startup that ‘NewSQL’ databases – its distributed DB software runs in a self-contained and pre-configured box’s that can easily be added to an existing deployment, and don’t require any out of the ordinary in-house talent to maintain. Clustrix received $6.75 million from investors Sequoia Capital, USVP, and ATA Ventures. It raised $12 ...
This Week in Cloud: M&A, Services and a Couple of Blunders
This week acquisitions were announced by VMware and Sony, Xeround announced a big product to its service and – most notably – Cisco and Amazon proved once again that the cloud is not bullet-proof. A few days ago VMware acquired DynamicOps, a firm that makes software that allows customers to manage multiple cloud environments from ...
Juniper’s Revamped Partner Program, Addresses Channel Demands
Juniper Networks competes with Cisco and other vendors over a rapidly evolving networking market that’s being heavily influenced by trends such as the mobile enterprise and cloud computing. Partners account for a very significant part of the company’s revenue, and Juniper decided to give this aspect of its business a boost by overhauling the Partner ...
Microsoft Surface Raises a Few Eyebrows After All: HP Dumps RT
Last month Microsoft unveiled Surface, a new tablet that was rumored to launch at E3 earlier in June. Nonetheless the company didn’t lose the element of surprise – Surface is the software vendor’s first entry into the hardware market. One of the main concerns brought up is that the device may not justify the investment ...
Broadcom Pays MIPS $26.5 to Continue Licensing its IP
MIPS, a provider of processor architectures that names Broadcom as its biggest client, had some big news this week when the networking firm announced that it’s extending their multi-year licensing agreement. The relationship between the companies started in 1998, and the deal was made even more lucrative yesterday when word was sent out that Broadcom ...
Cloud’s Economic Scale, Results Too Big to Ignore: Intel Forecast 2012
One of the people who attended last week’s Intel Forecast is Ben Kepes, and the analyst hopped into theCube for twenty minutes to discuss his take on some of the trends that are maturing today (full video below). The first topic was the cloud. Kepes sees the cloud not necessarily as a big innovation from ...
Evolution of Technology, Core Concepts Behind the Cloud: Capgemini Exec Talks Impact
Petteri Uljas is the CEO of Capgemini’s Finland office, which is responsible for the company’s operations in Eastern Europe and India. IT services is one of the many segments that the cloud, and the exec provided his own unique perspective on this matter in an interview with John Furrier at Intel Forecast 2012 (full video ...
“Lost” Steve Jobs Interview Now Available on iTunes
A 70-minute interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dating back to 1995 is now available on iTunes for the first time. Robert Cringley interview Jobs for a for a PBS special titled Triumph of the Nerds, which aired just two years before the visionary’s legendary return to Apple, and only included about 10 minutes of the film. ...
Oracle Ruling Allows Second-Hand License Sales in the EU
Database giant Oracle sued UsedSoft a while back; a German firm that specializes in buying up software licenses from customers that purchased them straight from the source, and then reselling them for a discounted rate. That’s bad for business if you happen to own the rights to that software, but as the recent ruling in ...
