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“It’s the end of an era for storage,” declared Wikibon Analyst Stu Miniman (@stu, right), summing up the symbolic impact of Dell Inc.’s planned acquisition of storage giant EMC. As a former EMCer himself, Miniman has some special insight on what made …
Teradata sucks up IoT data, tightens Hadoop embrace
Teradata Corp. kicked off its annual user conference this week with a series of announcements that move its big data platform into the emerging world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and tighten its embrace of the Hadoop platform. The company’s first …
GoodData makes analytics distribution personal
In a rollout billed as a “partial re-positioning of the company,” analytics maker GoodData Corp. today rolled out an analytics distribution platform that makes it possible for data owners to distribute information from their own warehouses on a personalized basis to individuals, …
Startup aims to shake up contract management with free service
Armed with $2.7 million of angel investment and a target market of “the world,” Concord Worldwide Inc. today is introducing a full-feature contract management service that it’s giving away for free. The software-as-a-service offering includes features that are typically limited to paid …
Opinion: Amazon bids to become the Microsoft of the cloud
I started my technology journalism career in the early 1980s, when IBM’s market dominance was so complete that each year it sopped up half of the industry’s revenues and 80 percent of its profits. I also covered Microsoft during its ascent into desktop …
Exclusive interview: Amazon enters IoT maker market #reinvent
Amazon Web Services is jumping into the Internet of things today with the introduction of AWS IoT, a collection of devices and software services that people can user to experiment with self-monitoring and automatically controlled environments. In an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE …
Clusterpoint adds computation to NoSQL database engine
NoSQL database-as-a-service vendor Clusterpoint SIA is using the year’s hottest word – “disruption” – to describe the latest version of its namesake product. In version 4, Clusterpoint has added computational capability to the database engine, enabling data to be shared among multiple …
AWS/Accenture joint venture targets enterprise cloud migration | #reinvent
In a move aimed squarely at IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) linked up with Accenture PLC to form a business group to help enterprise customers move to the Amazon cloud. The alignment with Accenture, the world’s largest consulting …
Mendix broadly expands model-driven development platform
Mendix, Inc. announced version 6 of its rapid application development platform, adding support for offline functionality in mobile applications, an model application program interface (API) and open-source software development kit (SDK) with enhanced import and export capability for application models. Mendix is …
Digital transformation becoming a board-room issue, PwC study says
The seventh annual Global Digital IQ Survey from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC US (PwC) is out, and the news isn’t great for CIOs, at least on the surface. The survey of 2,000 executives in 51 countries found that 68 percent of digital spending …