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Cloudera wants to be multicloud king for enterprise big kids
It can be difficult for a technology company to get its bearings these days. The on-premises-public-cloud teeter-totter has customers going this way one minute and that way the next. Cloudera Inc. is trying to bridge the gap between computing environments while sending a data-centric message to the biggest enterprises on the block. “It’s going to ...
Will Infor customers stick around for micro-vertical apps, or will Oracle intercept?
It’s not easy being best-of-breed in anything — doing an expert job across a wide swath of vertical domains is almost unthinkable. But Infor Inc. has buried its nose deep in research and development in an attempt to do just that in the enterprise-grade software market. With Wall Street gnats screened off, it may have the ...
Is mountain-boarding a thing? It is now, thanks to e-skateboards
Last-mile transportation, such as portable bikes and boards, frees commuters from the tyranny of gas-guzzlers and crowded subway cars. They are also luring recreational users seeking an electric boost in outdoor sports like mountain biking. “I talk with a fair amount of people in the bike industry, and my understanding is that lots of the ...
Cloud 9? iPhone-easy, on-prem cloud with individual resource scaling
A lot of companies these days want to snap their fingers and make their data centers go poof. But depending on their size and economics, they may not be able to swing the cost of the all-in, public-cloud high life. For them, on-premises private cloud options that pair public-cloud-like scale and composability with iPhone-easy operation ...
Supercomputing for science is a practice, not a product
Think getting accurate big-data analytics insights for a retail business is a big hassle? Try solving some of the planet’s most menacing challenges, such as marine-life preservation and global warming. The answer is: a monster of a supercomputer that requires two-way collaboration between scientists and researchers and the makers of the necessary hardware and software. Lenovo Group ...
Lenovo and NetApp go deep to stretch global market reach
In technology, there are partnerships and then there are partnerships. When one company tacks another company’s thingamajig onto its own portfolio, it’s generally nothing to get too excited about. Other partnerships can change the fortunes of companies in their global market reach and revenue outlook. The team-up between Lenovo Group Ltd and NetApp Inc. would be ...
New regulation revs up e-bike adoption in the US
While engineers and developers work out the safety kinks in self-driving cars, software-enabled electric bikes can be taken for a ride today. While they aren’t self pedaling, the sensors and electric motors can help cyclists shorten commutes and conquer steep hills and rough terrain. They’re already big in Europe and getting bigger in the U.S. ...
Sumo Logic customers backseat-drove the platform to security
It’s likely that techies have seen the words Sumo Logic and security in the same sentence. However, the machine-data analytics company Sumo Logic Inc. did not set out to sell security software. Its platform’s versatility just naturally results in a tug-of-war between app-monitoring and other use cases. The company has decided not to dictate users, and instead watch ...
How a versatile machine-data platform makes security everyone’s job
De-silo is one of the hottest verbs sounding throughout Silicon Valley lately. Vendors are whipping up tools that break data out of silos for analytics and applications. Businesses using these tools to naturally segue into bringing people out of silos for greater collaboration and intelligence sharing. Applications and platforms with cross-department utility pull disparate teams together ...
Open-source project weaves through on-prem, cloud, containers
Computing infrastructure today is splitting up and floating adrift like ice floes on the Arctic Ocean. Companies see the benefits of on-premises data centers, cloud and containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), but struggle to manage all three. Is there a single thread that can string them all together? Hortonworks Inc. has been ...