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What you missed in Big Data: Watson meets the Internet of Things
Organizations are investing heavily in analytics to try to process the growing amount of machine-generated data that is coming off their connected devices. One of the vendors working to capitalize on the trend is IBM Corp., which last week announced that it will spend $200 million on expanding the Munich headquarters of its Watson IoT group ...
What you missed in Cloud: The competition is heating up
While it’s only one of several factors that companies consider when selecting a cloud platform, pricing often has an outsized role in the decision-making process. As a result, the industry’s top infrastructure as a service providers place a big emphasis on keeping their rates competitive. Microsoft Corp. put the topic back on the agenda last week ...
Oracle delays NetSuite acquisition again amid shareholder resistance
Oracle Corp. may have convinced antitrust authorities to approve its proposed acquisition of NetSuite Inc. for $9.3 million, but shareholders are still holding out. The database giant had to push back the deal deadline to Nov. 4 this morning after failing to receive the necessary support to go through with the transaction. NetSuite’s investors have so far ...
Amazon teams up with AT&T to supercharge its IoT service
Carriers have always had a central role in Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud strategy. The provider relies on network operators like AT&T Inc. to link its data centers with the offices of large enterprise clients, and it now wants to harness the same telecommunications infrastructure for supporting connected devices. Amazon and AT&T today launched a new “strategic, multi-year” effort to ...
After strong IPO, SaaS provider Coupa soars to new heights
To say that Coupa Software Inc. has received a warm welcome on Wall Street would be a major understatement. The cloud-based spend management provider, which sold shares for the first time on Wednesday night, experienced a rush of investor interest Thursday morning that sent its stock soaring as high as $41.61, up more than 200 ...
VMware sells its government cloud to QTS Realty Trust
The fierce competition in the infrastructure-as-a-service market is driving consolidation even among established vendors. VMware Inc. today sold its vCloud Government Service, the part of its hosting platform geared toward public sector customers, to data center operator QTS Realty Trust Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The move comes less than a year after rumors first ...
Akamai picks up network access startup Soha to boost security lineup
In the wake of the record-breaking botnet attack that hit one of its highest profile users last month, it’s no surprise that Akamai Technology Inc. is doubling down on security. The content delivery giant this morning picked up a Sunnyvale, CA-based startup called Soha Systems Inc. that has developed a service for regulating external access to ...
IBM will spend $200 million to kit out its Watson IoT HQ
Just 10 months after inaugurating the global headquarters of its Watson IoT business in Munich, IBM Corp. is already expanding the office’s scope of operations. The company today announced that it will invest $200 million to set up new cutting-edge labs in the facility where organizations will be able to train their staffers in making ...
Restless Bandit snags $8M to help companies find hidden gems in rejected resumes
Like all other types of data in the enterprise, resumes have a tendency to pile up. A job posting can easily attract hundreds of applications nowadays that often filed away for later in case they’re rejected. But HR departments rarely make effective use of their archived candidate records, a situation that Restless Bandit Inc. hopes ...
IBM, Carbon Black team up to patch corporate security holes
Just because an organization finds a vulnerability in its infrastructure doesn’t necessarily mean that the problem will be fixed. NASA, for instance, has more than 378,000 unpatched exploits across its employee endpoints as of August. IBM Corp. and Carbon Black Inc. today set out to relieve that situation, which is most commonly caused by shortages ...