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This Week in the Cloud: New Services, Home Organization and Virtual Gaming
This week was big for the software-as-a-service segment, alongside the regular slew of news from the cloud space, which also happened to include a couple of equally notable developments from the consumer-facing end. The first name in our recap is Accenture, a service provider that introduced a new SaaS for the insurance industry this week. ...
T-Mobile Leverages SAP HANA with a Push from HP
T-Mobile is using converged infrastructure from Hewlett-Packard to run HANA and achieve a reduction in the time it takes to analyze customer data. SAP’s in-memory analytics platform is one of if not the biggest highlight of the SAP SAPphire NOW conference held this week, and HP didn’t miss its opportunity to get its share of ...
Zuckerberg’s $16BN Opening Bell Ticket
Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the NASDAQ’s opening bell this morning, and investors are getting ready to snatch up shares of the social media behemoth for $38 a pop. The initial public offering will raise approximately $16 billion, a sum that will skyrocket the company’s valuation to $104 billion. The stock’s price is on ...
DDN Jumps on Open Compute Bandwagon with Object Scaler
Data-driven storage provider DataDirect Networks revealed its official admission to the Open Compute Project: Web Object Scaler is now certified to run Open Compute server and storage systems. OCJ is an initiative conceived by Facebook to promote more efficient data center hardware, based for the most part on designs the social network came up with for ...
Accenture Unveils New Insurance SaaS
Service provider and business software maker Accenture has extended its Life Insurance Platform suite of offerings with a cloud-based interface that covers a lot of ground. The new component unveiled this week supplements the company’s existing portfolio in three main areas. Firstly, it features a ‘decision engine’ that aims to automate certain key process by ...
SAS and Capgemini Track Tax Fraud with Analytics
Business analytics software maker SAS and Capgemini, an IT consultancy, are working together to offer governments a solution that spots tax-related fraud by crunching data and detecting suspicious patterns. At the same time, the two companies are promising to reduce the error margins that can eventually lead to the same bottom line result as well. ...
24 Hours Ahead of Facebook’s IPO: It’s Time to Talk Clean Servers
In just a few years, social media behemoth Facebook managed to build up a $100 billion IPO valuation, and all the credit goes to the 800 million registered accounts on the network – 800 million users that the company’s IT infrastructure has to support. Facebook’s engineers got cracking, laying out the blueprints for a new ...
BI Industry Spike Puts Tableau at the Helm
Data visualization software maker Tableau Software is calling dibs on the BI market now that research firm Gartner ranked it as the number one vendor in that space in a recent, and most awkwardly pronounced, report. The whitepaper, entitled ‘Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management, Worldwide, 2011,’ looks at twenty different vendors, and places ...
Pure Storage Reveals Version 2 of All-Flash Array [Video]
Pure Storage’s engineering team has evidently been keeping busy in light of this week’s news that the company is debuting the second generation of its flash storage array. FlashArray 2.0 with the new Purity Operating Environment software packs several extra features that are promised to add much more value to the solution. This latest release ...
OpsCode Unveils New Chef Features, Trial Version
Now that the Chef has reached the 1,000,000 downloads mark, OpsCode released a major update to the open source systems integration framework. It now includes a whole new lineup of features, and there’s a free two-month trial available to those who want to test one the Private edition of the software. The tweaked-up Chef in ...
