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How IBM helped ultracycling champion Dave Haase set a new American record | #IBMinsight
Among all the new objects that were hooked to the web this year as part of the rush to pervasive connectivity, one in particular stood out: endurance cycling champion Dave Haase, who IBM wired with sensors for the most recent Race Across America bicycle ultramarathon to show off the potential of its analytics technology. The ...
Alteryx scores a massive $85M to establish data blending dominance
The venture capital community’s appetite for analytics shows no sign of diminishing. Less than a week after chucking $37.5 million at a promising provider of cloud-based business intelligence for CIOs, investors are pouring more than double that into the coffers of Alteryx Inc. to help grow the adoption of its namesake data processing software. The ...
Cisco predicts Internet of Things will generate 500 zettabytes of traffic by 2019
If CIOs think that they have trouble dealing with the increase in unstructured information now, then they should wait until 2020 comes around. A new global traffic forecast from Cisco Systems Inc. that crossed the wire this morning predicts the amount of data coming off the connected universe will nearly quadruple over the next five ...
How South Africa’s oldest bank is making an ‘80s-vintage COBOL system work | #IBMinsight
Amid all the talk of analytics changing the way organizations operate and helping to uncover new business opportunities, one global financial institution is staying competitive with a more than 30-year-old database deployment. Jay Prag, the chief information officer of South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB), stopped by theCUBE this week to share the fascinating inside ...
IBM’s data integration and governance boss on the future of analytics | #IBMinsight
Ritika Gunnar, VP of information integration and governance for IBM’s $30 billion analytics business, said that her focus within the division isn’t nearly as complicated as her lengthy job title makes it out to be. Managing an organization’s data effectively boils down to merging the disparate metrics into a usable form and ensuring the combined whole is ...
Cisco splurges $452.5M on real-time network security provider Lancope
As the world’s top network equipment supplier, Cisco Systems Inc. will support much of the traffic from the estimated 50 billion connected devices that are expected to come online by the end of the decade. That responsibility encompasses not only meeting bandwidth and uptime requirements but also security, which is what its latest acquisition is ...
Oracle debuts first systems with 10-billion-transistor SPARC M7 chip
Oracle Corp. certainly knows how to launch a hardware product. The company introduced its newest line of SPARC-based systems at its annual customer conference this morning with a list of more than 20 broken processing records spanning roughly half a dozen workload categories from data analytics to bespoke customer applications. The credit goes to the new ...
Akanda supercharges its OpenStack networking service with Liberty release
Hot on the heels of the latest iteration of OpenStack hitting general availability, Akanda Inc. is releasing an upgrade to its complementary network orchestration service that promises to greatly improve the efficiency and reliability of production deployments. Backing up that lofty claim is a case study from one of the oldest names in the public cloud. ...
What you missed in Big Data: The language of analytics
The ability to clearly articulate business goals is as important when interacting with databases as it is for interacting with colleagues, except often considerably more difficult. The issue returned to the center of attention last week when Neo Technology Inc. released the specification for the query language powering its widely-used graph store under an open-source license. The ...
What you missed in Cloud: New beginnings
The competitive lines of the public cloud were redrawn once again last week after two of the biggest names on the scene made major changes to their strategic positions. EMC Corp. set off the shift with the announcement of plans to integrate the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service assets scattered throughout its federation into one big division. The news came ...