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Tableau unveils new in-memory data engine, machine learning features
Big changes are coming to Tableau Software Inc.’s data visualization platform. At its annual customer event in Austin today, the company laid out an ambitious three-year feature roadmap aimed at addressing the key trends that are shaping the work of business intelligence professionals. The first and arguably biggest item on the agenda is a new ...
What’s new in SAP Hana 2 database: satellite data and cloud analytics
Attendees of SAP SE’s TechEd conference in Barcelona this week will have plenty to talk about between sessions. The company kicked off the event today by unveiling a landmark new release of Hana, the in-memory database underpinning its core products, that aims to streamline every major aspect of running an analytics environment. On the backend, ...
Google adds new testing, analytics features to its Firebase backend as a service
Building and testing mobile applications could soon become a much more streamlined experience for developers who rely on Google Inc.’s cloud-based Firebase toolkit. At an event in Berlin today, the search giant introduced a new iteration of the managed backend that promises to speed up several key parts of the software lifecycle, starting with bug ...
NetApp to cut 6 percent of staff as storage competition grows
In a sign of cloud computing’s growing disruption of the technology industry, NetApp Inc. is already gearing up for another restructuring just two months after completing its last round of job cuts. The storage giant revealed plans to lay off 6 percent of its workforce, or about 640 employees, in a filing submitted to the U.S. ...
CenturyLink to sell 57 data centers to consortium for $2.15B
The past week has seen telecommunications giant CenturyLink Inc. execute two of the most significant business moves in its recent history. On Monday, the company signed an agreement to acquire Level 3 Communications Inc. for $34 billion in a deal that is poised to buy it over 200,0000 route miles worth of fiber-optic cabling. Today ...
Microsoft beefs up its Power BI cloud business intelligence service
Analytics providers are constantly working to lower the learning curve of their offerings in a bid to reach more users. Microsoft Corp. joined the effort this week by releasing a new data visualization feature for Power BI, its cloud-based business intelligence service, that lets analysts create graphs with the R language without having to perform ...
Microsoft Flow takes on IFTTT task automation tool with enterprise features
Six months after announcing plans to take on IFTTT Inc.’s hugely popular task automation tool, Microsoft Corp. has officially launched its competing Flow service into general availability. The release brings a host of new features that are designed to streamline common work-related activities involving the software giant’s ubiquitous productivity offerings, particularly Office 365. One of ...
Chip giant Broadcom buys Brocade for $5.9 billion for data center presence
Increasing competition in the semiconductor market is leading the top players to branch out and target areas with new revenue opportunities. Although some such as Intel Corp. are venturing as far as the self-driving car industry in their quest for growth, Broadcom Ltd. is keeping its focus on the data center market. Today the chipmaker doubled ...
IBM infuses hybrid cloud features into its storage systems
The hybrid cloud is emerging as a central priority in IBM Corp.’s storage strategy. The company today unveiled a new version of Spectrum Virtualize, the management stack powering most of its storage arrays, that introduces a native cloud replication feature. That means organizations will be able to move snapshots, or read-only copy of the data, ...
Cisco targets data-intensive workloads with new converged systems
Like its fellow hardware suppliers, Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to capitalize on the rapid growth of unstructured data and the resulting rise in enterprise storage requirements. The latest fruit of the company’s efforts is the UCS-S converged infrastructure family, which was unveiled today at its annual partner summit in San Francisco. Cisco says that the ...