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The burgeoning analytics ecosystem witnessed another round of consolidation last week after Microsoft Corp. acquired a startup called VoloMetrix Inc. for its productivity tracking software. The deal aims to bolster the workforce monitoring capabilities that it’s been developing internally for Office 365 and intends …
What you missed in Cloud: Upping the computing ante
As servers continue their increasingly precarious climb along the curve of Moore’s law, so do the major providers keep upping the ante on the cost-efficiency and power of their instances. Last week saw yet another milestone passed on that journey after Microsoft …
LinkedIn open-sources internal tool to simplify machine learning projects
Only three days after previewing a slew of upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka, LinkedIn Inc. is adding another item to its open-source analytics repertoire with the release of a likewise internally-developed tool that promises to simplify machine learning initiatives. And in particular, coordination …
BlackBerry buys out arch-rival Good Technology for enterprise mobility dominance
The corporate device management space has gotten a little less crowded this morning with the announcement that BlackBerry Ltd. is acquiring one of its biggest rivals, Good Technology Inc., for $425 million in cash. The landmark deal positions the Canadian mobile giant at …
Intel invests $50 million in quantum computing research
As Moore’s law becomes harder and harder to uphold, Intel Corp. is stepping up its efforts to find an alternative to conventional silicon chips that can keep up with the world’s growing demand for processing power. The latest pit stop in that …
Report: HP looking to sell off network security business ahead of split-up
Hewlett-Packard Co. has reportedly begun purging non-core assets ahead of its planned split-up later this year, with anonymous insiders claiming that the first casualty could be its little-known TippingPoint firewall business. The rumored divestment would mark the latest milestone in what has …
LinkedIn previews upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka
The engineering team at LinkedIn Inc. hasn’t been sitting idly since contributing its homegrown message broker to the open-source community three years ago. The volume of data flowing through its network has since ballooned to over 1.34 petabytes per week, which required …
Syncsort open-sources Spark connector for mainframes
The clash between old and new gripping the analytics world moved up yet another notch this morning with the release of a connector from Syncsort Inc. that aims to make it easier for organizations to tap records in their mainframes using Apache …
SAP debuts an in-memory query engine for Spark in renewed IoT push
While the who’s who of the industry are at San Francisco’s Moscone Center for VMworld 2015, SAP SE is throwing an event of its own just over a over a mile away to introduce a new tool that promises to help organizations …
Apple partners with Cisco to provide a wireless “fast lane” for corporate iPhones
The corporate network is about to get a lot faster for iOS users thanks to a new partnership between Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. that will see traffic from iPhones and iPads receive priority treatment from the latter’s widely-deployed switches. It’s …