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Lessons in Big Data Transformation from HP Discover 2012
Hewlett-Packard is holding its second annual HP Discover event in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The vendor will likely tackle many of the same subjects it addressed during the US conference in June this year, namely the shift towards big data and the ongoing challenges of IT infrastructure to support the change. Antonio Neri, senior ...
Boundary Brings Big Data to AWS With More Cloud Transparency
Boundary updated its cloud monitoring service this morning with new features that can detect technical difficulties and pending application issues using the power of analytics. The update includes a “proactive alerting” capability that tracks app behavior and sends out a warning as soon as something breaks the pattern. This supplements the second new feature that ...
New Details of Autonomy Accounting Practices Unfold After Investor Sues [VIDEO]
A Hewlett-Packard shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company for an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy, the British analytics firm it acquired last year. When the deal was first announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison deemed the $11 billion buyout price inflated, a statement that today seems more valid than ever. The unnamed stakeholder behind the ...
The Science of Sentiment is Big Business in the Valley
While many tech startups are attracting less VC attention than they once did, analytics firm Lattice Engines has had few problems gaining adoration from investors. The predictive analytics seller received $20 million in a Series C funding round. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the round, and existing investor Sequoia Capital chipped in as well. The San ...
Garantia Boosts AWS with Major NoSQL Upgrade
Garantia Data, is making its Redis offering available to developers who are running their apps on Heroku, AppFog and AppHarbor. Garantia is an up-and-coming NoSQL startup that offers cloud services based on Memcached and Redis, two popular in-memory key value stores. The value prop lies in the propriety backup and performance optimization features that Garantia adds to the core ...
Six Enterprise-Grade Firewalls for Your Corporate Network
Security firms are starting to address the requirements of next generation applications with their software, responding to trends such as BYOD, the cloud and big data. Modernization introduces more complexity to the corporate network, and contributes to the creation of new security vulnerabilities as a result. This also means that all business networks from small teams to ...
Who Needs Cyber Monday? eShops Rake in Over $1BN on Black Friday 2012
Black Friday was the heaviest online spending day to date, according to a new comScore report that says e-commerce sites sold 1.042 billion worth of merchandise on November 23. That’s 26-percent more than what digital consumers shed out last year, the research firm says. Customer interest spiked on Black Friday, but it only accounted for a fraction ...
Cutting Costs in the Cloud: Government Data Centers, IaaS and Cisco
Last week’s top stories include a big government shift to the cloud and Capgemini’s push to monetize this trend, in addition to a couple notable updates from Joyent and Cisco. According to a recent paper from the Office of Management and Budget, the public sector’s plans to consolidate IT infrastructure are coming along nicely. No ...
eStores Finally Beat Real Stores for Holiday Shoppers
ClickFox, a big data firm that specializes in consumer insight, released a new report that says 62 percent of customers plan to do their shopping online this year. The reason: it’s just more convenient, but actually better than going to a physical store. “Consumers have become adept at identifying the easiest customer service resolution,” said ...
The Worst of Foxconn 2012: From Suicidal Workers to the Robots that Will Replace Them
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that mass produces many consumer hardware brands including the iPhone, has received a lot of attention in the past few years for it poor working conditions. But it seems that this year the company, which employs over one million workers throughout China, has hit a new low. One of the biggest ...