Details of Verizon’s new low-cost wireless IoT infrastructure
Connecting a smartphone or a tablet to the web is as simple as subscribing to a mobile broadband plan, but many of the newer categories of devices that are hitting the market don’t have…
IBM storage director lays out the Storwize value proposition | #oow15
Often overlooked in the discussion about the challenges of meeting an enterprise’s rapidly evolving storage requirements are the administrators who manage that capacity. Experienced staff is in short supply and turnaround rates can be…
Cisco’s opportunity in the Internet of Things | #oow15
Out of all the players involved in the connected universe, perhaps no single company stands to gain as much as Cisco Systems Inc. with its massive networking footprint. The head of marketing for its…
Analytics is shaking up the one percent | #IBMinsight
For the high-net-worth individuals served by The Rudin Group’s banking customers, the traditional annual meeting with their portfolio managers simply doesn’t cut it anymore. There is an now an expectation for a much more…
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…
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…
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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…
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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,…
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.…
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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…