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What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about automation
Like the rest of the software industry, development automation providers have also been moving their offerings to the public cloud in recent years. Shippable Inc. hopes to set its service apart from the growing crowd with a set of new capabilities that rolled out last week to help streamline large application projects running outside the ...
10,000 IBMers reportedly set to lose their jobs as restructuring begins
The massive restructuring effort that IBM Corp. insiders warned about a few weeks now appears to be underway. Lee Conrad, the head of an independent union serving the company’s U.S. workforce, first sounded the alarms earlier this week after he started receiving emails from a large number of employees claiming to have been given their termination ...
Docker buys ex-Googlers’ startup to automate large-scale container clusters
Docker Inc. is moving towards closing the functionality gap between containers and traditional virtualization software one strategic acquisition at the time. The latest addition to its arsenal is Conductant Inc., a low-key startup that was founded by a group of Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. veterans to help organizations automate the management of their large-scale ...
SugarCRM moves to counter Salesforce.com’s analytics push
Marketing automation providers are adding more and more analytics functionality to their solutions as a response to salespeople’s’ increasing reliance on customer data in deal-making. SugarCRM Inc. joined the arms race this week with the purchase of Contastic Inc., a startup that uses natural language processing technology to help foster better relationships with clients. The ...
LinkedIn open-sources its internal data collaboration platform
As if analyzing unstructured data wasn’t already difficult enough, organizations must also keep track of where their records came from and how they’ve been modified due to various logistical reasons. To preserve the necessary context about the hundreds of terabytes of information it’s ingesting every week, LinkedIn Inc. has created a custom auditing platform that it’s ...
Syncsort targets mainframe data with enhanced Hadoop ETL tool
Hadoop could be displacing legacy analytics infrastructure at an even faster rate than it does now if not for the difficulty of importing information from outmoded data management systems. As a rule of thumb, the older the platform, the more time-consuming the chore becomes. Syncsort Inc. wants to clear the bottleneck for organizations that still ...
Equinix to add 200K square feet of data center space in major expansion
Amazon Inc. and its fellow infrastructure-as-a-service giants aren’t the only ones benefiting from the growing demand for off-premise resources in the enterprise. The trend is also creating more business for co-location providers like Equinix Inc., which is looking to grow its share of the pie with a newly announced expansion effort that will see four ...
Cloudera launches open-source effort to harness Hadoop for security analytics
Hadoop will soon be brought up much more often in enterprise security discussions if Cloudera Inc.’s newest community effort achieves its goal. The Open Network Insight (ONI) project launched on GitHub this week to help organizations take advantage of data crunching platform’s processing power in their breach prevention efforts. The documentation for the tool explains that ...
Dell-EMC merger receives approval from EU regulators
Less than a week after receiving the blessings of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Dell Inc.’s proposed acquisition of EMC Corp. has cleared another major regulatory hurdle on the other side of the pond. The European Commission announced this morning that it’s decided to follow in the footsteps of its stateside counterpart and approve the ...
What you missed in Big Data: The AI arms race continues
Three months since Google Inc. fired the first shot, the one-upmanship in the data science ecosystem shows no signs of slowing down. Last week saw Yahoo Inc. return to the fray after a brief hiatus and open-source a homegrown extension for Spark that extends its machine learning capabilities into the realm of artificial intelligence. CaffeOnSpark ...