Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Oracle buys container startup StackEngine to bolster developer cloud
For a large vendor trying to catch up on a new technology trend, tapping its vast cash reserves to acquire a startup that already has an entry in the race is a lot more convenient than spending time building its own from scratch at the risk of falling further behind. The latest anecdote for that comes ...
What you missed in Big Data: Real-time intelligence
The challenge of handling the growing amounts of real-time data entering the corporate network returned to the center of the analytics discussion last week after IBM Corp. added four new stream processing services to its public cloud. The star of the lineup is a machine learning engine that allows organizations to create pre-programmed algorithms for picking out ...
What you missed in Cloud: Managing usage
The competition in the public cloud continued unabated last week despite the looming holiday break with a renewed focus on price cuts, the historical bread and butter of the top providers’ differentiation efforts. Amazon Inc. fired the first shot with the launch of a new instance type that accumulates credits when left idle to let ...
Microsoft acquires Metanautix for its data integration service
While the rest of the industry was winding down for the weekend, Microsoft Corp. marked last Friday with the announcement of its latest acquisition, a startup called Metanautix Inc. that has developed a service for integrating data from disparate systems. Its main selling point is an indexing mechanism that catalogs the contents of every source ...
Dell subsidiary SecureWorks files for IPO
Another piece of the complex accounting puzzle that is Dell Inc.’s attempt to acquire EMC Corp. has fallen into place after its SecureWorks subsidiary filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move appears to be part of the rumored eleven-figure fundraising effort that the technology giant is pursuing ...
BlackBerry’s software-centric comeback plan is starting to work
It only took one positive earnings call for the market to regain faith in BlackBerry Ltd. Shares of the Canadian mobile vendor are up more than 11 percent this morning after its third quarter financial results topped the average analyst estimate on the back of a 14 percent sequential sales increase, an improvement that would ...
Box brings its file sharing service to Salesforce.com
The latest big-name cloud provider Box Inc. has managed to convince into adding native support for its popular file sharing service is Salesforce.com Inc., which this week announced plans to let users access their documents directly from within its customer relationship management platform. The upcoming integration aims to address the growing reliance on data in ...
Sizing up the public cloud: IBM bets on analytics and verticals
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle. In contrast with most of its rivals in the upper tier of the public cloud, IBM’s strategy doesn’t center on overthrowing Amazon Web Services from its ...
IBM teams up with major banks to develop new open-source blockchain standard
Bitcoin is about to receive some serious competition from the financial services sector. More than a dozen of the biggest names in the industry have joined forces with IBM Corp. this morning to develop their own open-source implementation of the blockchain transaction processing model at the heart of the popular cryptocurrency. The design pattern calls ...
Target botches holiday season cybersecurity, again
Two years and about $300 million in legal costs later, it seems that Target Corp. still hasn’t fully internalized the lessons from the 2013 holiday season breach that saw hackers steal the personal information of more than 40 million of its customers. Avast Software s.r.o. issued a security alert this week warning of a vulnerability in the ...