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Enterprise integration vendor Jitterbit, Inc. today announced a cloud platform for companies to use in quickly designing and managing real-time application program interfaces (APIs), a middleware technology that is fast gaining favor as a quick and relatively secure way for enterprises to …
MariaDB adds Docker, Chef support in summer release
MariaDB Corp. is focusing on developers in the summer release of its namesake database and related MaxScale proxy server. Founded by the developers of MySQL in the wake of Oracle’s acquisition of that software, MariaDB has seen rapid growth. It has taken over …
SIOS aims to bring order to virtual machine complexity
Breaking out of its high-availability computing niche, SIOS Technology Corp. is today announcing a virtualization monitoring and optimization platform tuned to VMware, Inc. environments. The company, which was founded in 1999 as a maker of clustering software, says its SIOS iQ technology …
IBM outsourcing deal validate’s Wikibon “mega-data center” vision
IBM’s massive nine-figure contract to help Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. upgrade its infrastructure and internal employee support operations over a five-year period is symbolic of a bigger transformation outlined by Wikibon cofounder David Floyer (below) in a concept he calls the “mega-data …
Former HP exec Veghte signs on as head SurveyMonkey
Having spearheaded much of the strategy behind cleaving Hewlett-Packard Co. in two, Bill Veght will face a very different challenge in his new role: Pulling together a company that’s coping with grief. SurveyMonkey, Inc., a fast-growing provider of online research tools, today announced that Veghte would …
How Sprint is making customer service social
Ever since @ComcastCares kicked off the social media customer service revolution seven years ago, companies have been evolving and refining their approach to handling customer service issues in a proliferating number of channels in ever-tighter timeframes. Telecommunications service provider Sprint Corp. is …
Ask a Wikibon Analyst – How big a deal is Apache Spark really?
In the world of Big Data, 2015 is rapidly shaping up as the year of Spark. The Apache analytics engine has captured the industry’s imagination and prompted some people to predict that Spark will be a bigger deal than Hadoop, which was …
HP loses another top exec as it prepares to detail breakup plans
A little over a year ago, Hewlett-Packard Co. Enterprise Group EVP Bill Veghte kicked off the company’s Discover conference by proclaiming “HP is back.” However, he won’t be around to enjoy a victory lap. HP announced this morning that Veghte is leaving the …
Analytics transform sales reporting at 130-year-old industrial supplier
When your company sells 400,000 distinct items with a half million SKUs in a configure-to-order business across 100 countries, record-keeping can be a challenge. That was the case at A. W. Chesterton Co., a 120-year-old industrial supplier, before an analytics dashboard gave …
Blazent gives its IT insight platform a Big Data boost
IT operations intelligence firm Blazent, Inc. is giving its data discovery and quality management platform a Big Data makeover with a series of enhancements aimed at improving scalability and speed. Blazent’s software reaches out to assets across the enterprise – ranging from …