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Acquisition of Revolution Analytics is a double win for Microsoft
Microsoft followed up its hologram-studded Windows 10 launch event on Friday with the equally significant acquisition of Revolution Analytics Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The landmark deal addresses two of Redmond’s most important strategic priorities. The eight-year-old Revolution Analytics commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over ...
Goldman Sachs bets $56 million on Antuit to tap Asia’s appetite for analytics
The analytics craze is under way in Asia, with help from one of the most powerful names in Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led a hefty $56 million funding round in a low-key number crunching company from Singapore on Wednesday that seeks to address the exploding demand for data insights on the world’s largest continent. ...
Metamarkets aims to ease marketing analytics with visualization engine
Metamarkets Inc. is attempting to solve one of the biggest challenges facing marketers who are actively incorporating data into their work with a new visualization engine for dissecting multi-dimensional information. The company, which specializes in building real-time analytics platforms for digital advertising, is targeting a frustration that is familiar to any marketer who has run an ...
Cloud business is bright spot in otherwise downbeat IBM earnings
IBM is pursuing an aggressive plan to refocus on cloud services and analytics under CEO Virginia Rometty (right), but revenues are not materializing fast enough to offset the massive declines across the legacy businesses that still make up for the bulk of its revenues. That is reflected all too clearly in the company’s newly fourth ...
Report says security pros fear potential Snowdens more than outside threats
With the recent wave of high-profile attacks against major banks and retailers, cybercrime has come to dominate the headlines in the security world, but a new study from Vormetric, Inc. reveals that it’s not outside but rather insider threats that top the agenda for corporate leaders. The Edward Snowden saga has clearly made its mark ...
Cloud startup goBalto bags $12 million for tools to speed drug trials
Adding to the momentum of cloud services in the health care industry, goBalto Inc. raised another $12 million from investors on Wednesday to help accelerate the development of new drugs. The investment brings the startup’s total funding to $37.6 million, making it one of the most well-funded of the crop of software-as-a-service players that emerged in ...
No, it’s not a typo: Oracle plugs a record 167 security holes
Oracle rolled out a mammoth batch of patches on Tuesday in the first of four annual security fixes for its vast array of enterprise software products. What makes the otherwise routine update stand out is the sheer number of vulnerabilities addressed: a company-record 167. One flaw that drew an outsized amount of attention is a ...
MuleSoft bridges gaps between mobile and enterprise data
MuleSoft Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to its popular application connectivity service that takes aim at one of the most overlooked challenges in enterprise mobility: hooking up applications running on employee devices to the back-end infrastructure storing the data that they need for their work. Manually integrating an aging on-premise system and a ...
Egnyte moves to steal Box’s analytics thunder
Days before enterprise file-sharing kingpin Box Inc. is due to hit the stock exchange, one of its biggest rivals is rolling out new analytics functionality as part of a deliberately timed pivot aimed at taking the competitive fight beyond collaboration. The move continues the trend of cloud service providers increasingly looking to data as a ...
What CIOs can learn from web startups running containers in production
Gartner Inc. recently brought the gaping functional gaps between containers and conventional virtualization into the spotlight with a widely-covered report that concluded that the average organization is still better off using a hypervisor than a container for most workloads. That isn’t stopping some web-scale companies from forging ahead with containers at scale, however. CIOs should ...