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Roambi announces partnership with Box
Roambi, the tablet-based data visualization and publication tool company, today announced a partnership with Box that allows users to build visualizations using data stored in and then share them electronically. They can also use PDFs and graphics from Box in documents created in Roambi Flow. Roambi already can draw data from spreadsheets on a user’s ...
From packing crate to productivity in 90 minutes with guaranteed IO QoS, SolidFire solves service provider’s problems
Cloud service providers like ServInt have two major problems with their storage: Guaranteeing quality-of-service to customers and the major effort required to migrate to new storage boxes. So when ServInt VP of Innovation Kevin Nicastro started investigating solid state options for augmenting and eventually replacing its existing DAS spinning disk and heard stories of guaranteed ...
ASG announces automated mainframe scripting cloud service #CIOAngle
While mainframes seldom get much press or public attention, they are, as Wikibon Principal Contributor Jeff Kelly wrote in his recent Professional Alert, still working away dependably at the heart of many enterprises, running core transactional applications. But companies depending on big iron to run their businesses are facing a staffing crisis. The old time ...
Big Data starts with the mainframe
The mainframe is an often neglected internal source of invaluable data for enterprises developing Big Data strategies, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data analyst Jeff Kelly in “The Mainframe and Big Data Analytics”.Despite the talk of the mainframe’s demise, many core transactional applications including reservation and online sales systems, payroll processing and inventory ...
QLogic buys Broadcom Ethernet adaptor lines, moves to #2 in market
QLogic has purchased Broadcom’s 10 Gb, 40Gb and 100Gb Ethernet adapter lines. This, added to its earlier acquisition of Brocade’s adaptor business, moves it into the #2 slot in the market, behind Intel, while freeing Broadcom to focus on its switches and other solutions that gain little leverage from the adapters, writes Wikibon Principal Research ...
Is IBM the new term for business cloud? #IBMpulse 2014 | #CIOAngle
IBM is changing the picture of the cloud business services market and, in the process, purposely raising user expectations in a strategy to capture the market momentum from AWS. Until last week IaaS users basically expected a bare-bones environment that they then had to populate with their tools, services, data, etc. IBM’s strategy is to ...
Red Hat announces BPM, tries to sell it as CRM
Red Hat today announced a new business process management suite, JBoss BPM 6, built on technology acquired with Polymita, along with an upgrade to its business rules management suite, JBoss BRMS 6. The BRMS suite is designed to abstract business rules from applications and make them more available in business rather than technical language. It ...
Pulse atmosphere electric at #IBMPulse 2014 | #CIOAngle
The atmosphere was electric at IBM Pulse 2014. Pulse was trending on the Internet as the entire IBM organization — software, services, even hardware — unveiled a total realignment behind cloud. The conference itself was completely remade. What was IBM’s software conference is now it’s cloud conference, and the blizzard of announcements makes the connection ...
IBM attacks growing cloud market with aggressive expansion of cloud services | #IBMPulse 2014, #CIOangle
IBM kicked off Pulse 2014 Monday morning with a list of announcements of new services for its worldwide cloud designed to meet the needs of three important constituencies: business leaders, developers, and IT. Its strategy for taking leadership in the growing public business cloud arena is to create a compelling overall environment, based on open ...
Pulse defines IBM’s future | #IBMpulse 2014, #CIOAngle
This week theCUBE will webcast two days of coverage of IBM Pulse 2014, which of all the IBM conferences (eight a year in the United States plus others worldwide) will be a defining event for the IT giant. Clearly if IBM is to have a future, a great deal of it will be providing cloud ...