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GE’s Predix: designed for analytics when milliseconds matter
There are a lot of cloud analytics platforms out there, but you’ve never seen one quite like GE Predix. Optimized for the unique characteristics of industrial environments, with their multitudes of machines and processing needs, Predix is designed to support complex systems in which application logic goes where it’s needed. That may be in individual ...
Catalogic, Pure Storage team up on copy data management
Software-defined copy data management (CDM) vendor Catalogic Software Inc. had broadened its support for flash storage arrays with the addition of Pure Storage Inc.’s FlashArray //m series. Catalogic and Pure Storage plan to jointly deliver a CDM package that addresses problem of the profusion of database copies. The joint packaged product, which will be available ...
Ever hear of Bayesian analysis? It just landed this company $6.6M
SigOpt Inc. works in a data analytics discipline that is so specialized that few people outside of the data science field can even understand it, much less explain it. That hasn’t stopped the eight-person venture from raising a $6.6 million series A funding round led by blue-chip Silicon Valley venture capitalist Andreessen Horowitz for its ...
GE seeks to simplify the industrial IoT’s mind-blowing complexity
As businesses begin to connect industrial devices to the Internet in order to capture data, mine it for value and take actions based upon those insights, the task takes on almost mind-blowing complexity. The Internet of things (IoT) is relatively simple in the context of the connected home. But industrial environments are networks of interconnected devices, ...
Will flash replace disk? Join the #AllFlash CrowdChat Aug. 25
In 2008, Wikibon’s David Floyer was the first analyst to publicly predict that high speed spinning disk would give way to flash devices. He was also one of the first to predict the rise of the all-flash data center. But not everyone agrees. Some people believe that advances in disk densities will continue to outpace flash ...
GE Predix chief architect sees IoT analytics as a game changer
Designing an analytics platform for the Internet of Things (IOT) present some big challenges that users of typical business analytics systems don’t have to confront. Devices in remote locations with slow or nonexistent connections – such as sensors on wind turbines in the North Atlantic – aren’t like office PCs. That means decision-making needs to ...
Cisco earnings show company on track to software-first strategy
Cisco Systems Inc.’s quarterly revenues fell 2 percent from a year ago, but the company slightly beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom line. But the mostly upbeat earnings report was overshadowed by an announcement that Cisco will lay off up to 5,500 employees, or nearly 7 percent of its workforce, as it continues its ...
Managing clouds harder than IT leaders expect, survey says
Is this the trough of disillusionment? The tantalizing promise of cloud computing to make IT operations, simpler and cheaper may be yielding to the reality of an environment that is more complex and difficult to manage than many respondents had expected, at least according to a new survey by cloud automation vendor Logicworks Corp. The ...
Integration vendor SnapLogic adds Hive, Teradata connectors
Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is introducing its Summer 2016 release of the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform, expanding the library of connectors it calls “Snaps,” improving security in Hadoop environments and improving performance through parallelization of ingestion and delivery services. The company, which calls its product an enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) touts ease-of-use, scalability and ...
How GE Predix tackles the unique challenges of the industrial IoT
Much of the industrial world has been unable to capitalize on the digital revolution because data was locked up in disconnected machines or couldn’t be processed economically. The new world of connected equipment and big data analytics commonly called the Internet of things (IoT) will change all that. “Workers in the industrial sector have been ...
