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Chatbots could become much more useful for knowledge workers if IBM Corp. and Slack Inc. have their way. Against the backdrop of its annual World of Watson summit in Las Vegas this week, Big Blue has struck a partnership with the communications …
IBM augments Watson to better understand humans and data
IBM Corp. today unveiled a new analytics platform and a tool to create virtual agents more easily, both based on its famous Jeopardy!-winning Watson “cognitive” computing system. The company introduced the new services at its second annual World of Watson conference in …
Salesforce.com backs French sharing startup OpenDataSoft with $5.4M
Turning raw data into useful information is only half the business intelligence journey. Analytics teams must also share the results with their users on time and in an easily understandable format, which is much easier said than done when it comes to …
Dataiku raises $14M to help business and data pros collaborate better
Even with all the collaboration tools that are available to companies these days, coordinating the different personnel who take part in a large-scale analytics project can still be difficult. One of the startups working to ease the task is the New York-based …
451 Research: OpenStack market will hit $5B by 2020
Six years after its initial release, the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack continues to gain steam. A new report from 451 Research predicts that the companies working to commercialize the project will generate total revenues of $1.8 billion this year, $2.5 billion in …
Khosla-backed Chain opens up its blockchain to developers
Yet another proprietary blockchain architecture is going open-source. Chain Inc., a two-year-old startup backed up by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and several other financial institutions, today released its distributed ledger on GitHub under a free license. The move comes …
What you missed in big data: an integrated approach
The growing influence of data on decision-making in the enterprise is turning analytics into a key focus area even for vendors that have historically made most of their revenue elsewhere. Last week, Dell Technologies Inc. joined the fray by introducing a new …
What you missed in cloud: data centers and human resources software
Cloud providers are rapidly deploying new infrastructure to address the growing demand for their services. Last week, Amazon Inc. launched three data centers in Ohio as part of the effort that will allow organizations from the Great Lakes region to host workloads …
Security startup Nozomi raises $7.5 million to protect industrial equipment
Data center hardware and employee endpoints aren’t the only part of an organization’s infrastructure that needs to be protected from hackers. Companies in certain industries such as the manufacturing sector must also safeguard the industrial control systems that power their production equipment, which …
New ‘Dirty Cow’ vulnerability threatens Linux systems
The broad developer participation in leading open-source projects such as Linux creates plenty of opportunities to catch security problems. However, some bugs still fall through the cracks every now and then. The latest addition to the list is a “privilege escalation” vulnerability …