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IBM taps Cisco to deploy Watson at the edge of the network
IBM Corp.’s Watson system has come a long way since its public debut on CBS’ Jeopardy! in 2011. Organizations now have access to several cloud versions of the artificial intelligence, on-demand APIs, and they will soon be able to take advantage of its capabilities at the edge of the network as well. Big Blue plans to ...
IBM launches system for building and managing data lakes
The growing interest in so-called data center operating systems such as OpenStack and Mesosphere Inc.’s DCOS has spurred IBM Corp. to join the fray today with its own automation platform. Dubbed Spectrum Conductor, the software promises to do away with much of the duplicate componentry and expenses that burden IT departments. According to the vendor, ...
HPE’s newest tool helps companies avoid data-related legal issues
As if collecting and processing unstructured data isn’t difficult enough, companies must also ensure that they’re doing so in accordance with privacy laws, which vary based on the type of information being handled and its geographic origin. Meeting every regulatory requirement that applies to an organization often poses a major logistical challenge as a result. ...
Salesforce.com gobbles up e-commerce giant Demandware for $2.8BN
Salesforce.com Inc. has the e-commerce market in its sights. The cloud giant jumped into the ring this morning after signing an agreement to acquire Demandware Inc., a publicly-traded provider of online retailing software, for about $2.8 billion. The sum breaks down to $75.00 per share, which represents a generous 56.3 percent premium over the stock’s Tuesday ...
Nutanix borrows $75M from Goldman Sachs to weather IPO drought
To say that The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s relationship with Nutanix Inc is special would be an understatement. It bought a stake in the hyperconverged infrastructure startup three years ago, went on to be named as the chief underwriter for its upcoming public offering and is now taking on the role of a lender. According ...
Judge rules Dell privatization deal underpaid investors
Three years ago, Michael Dell took his namesake firm off the stock market after successfully convincing a requisite majority of shareholders to accept a $24 billion privatization offer. But the executive and his allies at Silver Lake Partners didn’t have as much luck with Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of Delaware’s special corporate court, who ...
Secretive chip start Innovium raises $50M in pre-launch funding
In today’s challenging venture capital environment, having a leadership team with a proven track record can go a long way towards helping a startup raise funding. The latest testament to this fact comes from Innovium Inc., which today revealed that it has quietly secured $50 million in financing over two rounds. The first closed at ...
What you missed in Big Data: Twitter and Intel take over the agenda
Last week’s biggest analytics-related news came not from the traditional data management vendors that usually dominate the agenda, but rather the web-scale crowd. Twitter Inc. led the charge by publishing the code for Heron, a homegrown stream processing framework that its engineers use to glean high-level insights from tweets. The engine is described as between ...
What you missed in Cloud: Dollars and Docker containers
The cloud ecosystem marked a major milestone last week after Twilio Inc. became the first software-as-a-service provider to file for a public offering since the start of the year. The move sends an encouraging signal to other tech firms that are also looking to hit the stock market but have been holding off their plans ...
YC graduate Front gets $10M to bring email back in vogue
Gmail and Outlook have lost a lot ground to real-time messaging services like Slack in recent years, but workers still perform much of their communications via email, and Front Inc. is intent on keeping it that way. The YC-backed startup this week raised $10 million in funding to fuel the development of new features for ...