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What you missed in Big Data: Smart connectivity
The difficulty of processing unstructured data is most often brought up in the context of the business analysts charged with extracting the insights inside, but it’s an equally big challenge for the developers who produce the software supporting that work. Last week saw Microsoft Corp. come to the rescue with a new service that makes ...
What you missed in Cloud: Integration returns to the spotlight
The public cloud experienced yet another round of consolidation last week after Canadian hosting bigwig CentriLogic, Inc.. acquired a fellow Toronto-based provider called Advanced Knowledge Networks Inc. to grow its local footprint. One of the main factors behind the deal is the growing competitive pressure from the likes of Amazon Inc., which is likewise expanding worldwide ...
IBM reimagines single sign-on for the era of mass data breaches
The newest addition to IBM Corp.’s Bluemix cloud development toolkit is an integration service aimed at reducing the amount of work involved in making applications compatible with Identity Mixer, a homegrown login system that was released under an open-source license earlier this year. The project is touted as a way for organizations to mitigate the ...
Log cruncher Splunk sees revenue surge to $174.4 million in the third quarter
The continued rise in machine-generated data is putting a lot of wind behind the sails of Splunk Inc., which saw revenue jump a staggering 50 percent last quarter to $174.4 million on the back of more than 500 new customer wins across dozens of industries. The earnings handily beat both the company’s own internal guidance ...
Salesforce.com poaches Microsoft’s top CRM exec as relationship strains
Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are no strangers to poaching from one another, but the rivalry has so far been mostly limited to customers. The fight escalated to the board room this week with the revelation that the former vice president of Redmond’s burgeoning customer relationship management business, Bob Stutz, has left to head up the ...
Salesforce.com on course to pass $8BN in annual revenue after steller Q3
Another quarter, another better-than-expected earnings report from Salesforce.com Inc., which managed to push its stock to a record high of $81.5 in after-hours trading yesterday that is still holding strong this morning. The price boost comes as a rare surprise for shareholders, who have grown accustomed to the software-as-a-service giant consistently delivering double-digit sales growth on ...
Google offers to foot migration costs for companies defecting to its cloud platform
The newest incentive Google Inc. is offering for companies to jump aboard its infrastructure-as-a-service platform is a complimentary migration service aimed at smoothing the transfer of existing workloads, a notoriously complicated, and by extension expensive, process. The search giant is outsourcing the logistics to a company called called CloudEndure Inc. through a freshly announced agreement that underscores its growing reliance ...
Israeli startup promises unbreakable encryption for the Internet of Things
Even the most advanced cryptography can theoretically be cracked with enough time and processing power, but that’s the least of an organization’s network protection worries. A much more tangible concern is the fact that conventional security protocols suffer from certain design flaws that hackers are potentially able to exploit in order to simply bypass their encryption, ...
Amazon is setting up shop in a classified U.S. intel facility
It appears that the CIA isn’t the only member of the U.S. intelligence community to have taken an interest in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Two years after landing a massive $600 million contract from the spy agency to take over its infrastructure operations, Jeff Bezos’s firm has received an equally unprecedented tax break to set up shop on ...
Docker launches a unified DevOps service for container clusters
Docker Inc. hopes to bridge the gap between the developers and operations professionals using its namesake container engine with a new paid service that offers to centralize application management in a unified interface. It’s meant to fill a role analogous to VMware Inc.’s vSphere in traditional virtual infrastructure but bears a much closer resemblance to ...