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Revolution Analytics Expands into Asia Pacific
Revolution Analytics opened up an office in Singapore in order to gain a foothold in the Asia Pacific market. The Asian market is in a phase of very rapid growth, and other vendors such…
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There’s an Analytics Market Growing Behind Your App Store
App Annie raised $6 million in a second round of funding led by Greycroft Partners with participation from existing backers .ventures, Infinity Venture Partners and a few other investors. The firm offers a set…
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HP Reveals New Autonomy-Powered “Meaning” Platform
Hewlett-Packard has invested over $10 billion in British analytics firm Autonomy, and soon after that its software was integrated with Vertica infrastructure. The offering is touted as a hybrid platform that covers both unstructured…
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Big Data Analytics? You’re Doing it Wrong [Report]
Business intelligence software maker Jaspersoft polled 600 community members on their organizations’ use of big data, and found some interesting patterns in the sector. The firm says that 62 percent of the respondents either…
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SDN Acquisitions Putting Pressure on Cisco, Traditional Networking
SDN is the concept of separating the software layer from the physical network and as a result facilitate much more efficient architectures and administration. It has been growing at a fairly moderate pace up…
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How One Outsourcing Company Thrives in a Down Market
Francisco D’Souzo is the chief executive of Cognizant, a New Jersey-based consultancy that is fairing very well in today’s somewhat volatile outsourcing market. He provided an insider’s perspective on the firm’s strong financial performance…
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HP Offers Low-End, NonStop Server to New Audiences
Hewlett-Packard debuted a new addition to its NonStop high-availability servers line-up that comes in cheaper configurations in order to try and appeal to smaller customers. NonStop servers are used by financial services providers, telcos…
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Teambox: New Features Just a Week after Funding
Teambox is a relatively new player in the already overcrowded collaboration space, and it’s on a roll. Just a few days after its seed funding round the company updated its platform with several new…
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Actian Wants to Pay $140M for Pervasive, Not Working Out So Far
Pervasive Software offers software and services for big data application development, including a cloud platform, a database solution and even documentation brokerage. New this week is news that the firm received an unsolicited buyout…
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Hewlett-Packard’s Massive Job Cuts Won’t Affect India
Back in May hardware giant HP announced plans to cut 8 percent of its global workforce, or 27,000 employees, by 2014. We ranked it as one of the worse tech layoffs in 2012, right…