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Sizing up the public cloud: IBM bets on analytics and verticals
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle. In contrast with most of its rivals in the upper tier of the public cloud, IBM’s strategy doesn’t center on overthrowing Amazon Web Services from its ...
IBM teams up with major banks to develop new open-source blockchain standard
Bitcoin is about to receive some serious competition from the financial services sector. More than a dozen of the biggest names in the industry have joined forces with IBM Corp. this morning to develop their own open-source implementation of the blockchain transaction processing model at the heart of the popular cryptocurrency. The design pattern calls ...
Target botches holiday season cybersecurity, again
Two years and about $300 million in legal costs later, it seems that Target Corp. still hasn’t fully internalized the lessons from the 2013 holiday season breach that saw hackers steal the personal information of more than 40 million of its customers. Avast Software s.r.o. issued a security alert this week warning of a vulnerability in the ...
Slack launches a $80 million developer fund to expand its app ecosystem
Not a lot of startups have been known to launch an eight-figure investment fund three years after hitting the scene, but then again Slack Technologies Inc. is not exactly the typical up-and-coming Silicon Valley venture either. Its collaboration service has become a staple of day-to-day work at thousands of the world’s biggest enterprises and now ...
IBM debuts new Watson-powered analytics APIs for the Internet of Things
The landmark $3 billion investment that IBM Corp. announced earlier this year to expand its plans for monetizing the connected universe is starting to bear fruit. The company launched four new services today at the inauguration event for the Munich office charged with leading the push that apply the capabilities of Watson to helping organizations ...
GCHQ open-sources key snooping tool
While the work of the U.K’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a closely guarded secret known only to select personnel, the internally-developed software powering its intelligence gathering operations is now publicly available for anyone to download. The source code of the aptly-named Gaffer database was released to GitHub yesterday under a free license to make ...
Couchbase 4.1 touts faster SQL queries against unstructured data
Just over two months after completing the much-touted initial rollout of SQL support for its popular document store, Couchbase Inc. is releasing yet another major update aimed at tying up the loose ends left over from the launch. As of today, the homegrown N1QL structured query language is fully functional, complete with the ability to ...
IBM’s upcoming open-source runtime project will shake up the developer ecosystem
A year after Microsoft Corp. released its popular .NET application framework under a free license to enable vendor-agnostic use cases, IBM Corp. is preparing to open-source a homegrown development technology of own that holds the potential to make an even bigger impact on the software world. OMR is a toolkit that implements the lessons the ...
Dell-EMC merger moves a crucial step closer to completion
The leaderships of Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. are now officially cleared to start making the preparations for the companies’ scheduled merger next year following the expiration of the so-called “go shop period” that kicked into effect after the announcement of the deal in October. Such pauses are frequently made ahead of high-value corporate acquisitions to ...
What you missed in Big Data: Startups tackle ETL
Barely a few days go by without some ambitious startup popping up to try and tackle one of the numerous challenges holding back large-scale analytics in the enterprise, and last week was no exception. Y Combinator graduate Etleap came out of stealth mode with a new service for moving records from various on-premise systems and cloud ...