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Cloudera certification boosts DataRobot’s machine learning platform
Well-funded data science startup DataRobot Inc. it taking a big step into the enterprise market by achieving the highest level certification on Cloudera Inc.’s Enterprise 5, the most popular commercial Hadoop platform. Top-level certification means that the DataRobot predictive analytics engine can now be managed from the Cloudera management console and that it complies with Cloudera’s ...
MapR adds Docker support, bulks up security on converged platform
MapR Technologies, Inc. today is adding support for persistent, stateful Docker containers along with security and performance improvements that make it easier for organizations to run Docker and analytics operations across a mix of Hadoop and non-Hadoop file systems. The company’s Converged Data Platform combines Hadoop, Apache Spark, web-scale storage, NoSQL and streaming capabilities into ...
B2B marketers grumble about ad spending results
B2B marketers see a lot of room for improvement overall in their digital advertising programs, but at least they’re happy with the advertising results their ads on social networks deliver, according to a new report by Demandbase Inc. The results of the survey of 500 management-level B2B marketers, which was conducted by Wakefield Research, casts ...
This new search engine is strictly business
The newest entry in the search engine market has a terrible name but an intriguing value proposition. Plonked Inc. describes its namesake search engine as a tool to significantly improve users’ ability to discover, analyze and connect with businesses. You can search on a company name to get detailed a profile or keywords to find ...
Hortonworks bids for Spark leadership
Citing enterprise customers’ need for stability and predictability, Hortonworks Inc. said it’s changing the distribution schedule for its core Apache Hadoop platform and extended services. It’s also placing big new bets on the race to improve the performance and scalability of Apache Spark. Core Apache Hadoop components such as HDFS, MapReduce, Yarn and Apache Zookeeper ...
VMware exec turmoil continues as COO Eschenbach exits
Just last week VMware Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Eschenbach (above right) joined IBM cloud chief Robert LeBlanc on stage at IBM’s big InterConnect conference to announce what IBM billed as a significant partnership between the two companies on hybrid cloud. Now Eschenbach is heading out the door to join a venture capital firm ...
Marketers need to unify channels to unleash big data’s potential
An analysis of your sales activity shows that 80 percent of your deals close on a Thursday. How does that affect the cadence of customer contacts you initiate early in the week? Or is it just a coincidence? Questions like these are the type that data scientists tussle with every day, and they’re just the ...
IBM betting cloud race will go to the Swift-est | #IBMInterConnect
Could Apple’s greatest contribution to the IT industry turn out to be a programming language? Judging by the buzz at week’s IBM InterConnect conference, that just might be so. The Swift language that Apple created and then open-sourced just a couple of months ago is taking the development world by storm. It’s already the most ...
Watson, IoT, security on display at #IBMInterConnect Day Two
At IBM these days, it seems that Watson is the answer, regardless of the question. The Day Two general session at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas was the chance for the world’s most famous non-human Jeopardy! champion to take center stage. IBM says only one percent of applications have what is calls “cognitive” capabilities ...
BMC upgrades toolset for mapping massive IT data centers
BMC Software Inc. has upgraded its IT discovery and dependency mapping toolset and rebranded the product as BMC Discovery. Formerly called Atrium Discovery and Dependence Mapping (ADDM), BMC Discovery has about 1,000 existing customers and is “a core component of our digital enterprise strategy,” according to Robin Purohit, president of BMC’s service support organizations. BMC ...
