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Mirantis Inc. is consolidating its power over the OpenStack ecosystem with the introduction of a new certification program that aims to help broaden the support for its already widely used distribution of the free cloud platform. No fewer than five partners are …
What you missed in Big Data: Hyper-personalization
Analytics passed a major milestone on the road to ubiquity last week with the launch of new capabilities that extend the reach of data-driven decisions even deeper into our digital lives. An up-and-coming startup called Jivox Inc. set the ball rolling with the …
Now AppDynamics wants to help you monitor your containers, too
Organizations looking for operational tools to help support their emerging container use cases now have another option to choose from on the monitoring front courtesy of AppDynamics Inc., which has extended its namesake performance tracking service to support the fast-growing virtualization format. …
Percolate bags $40 million to horn in on Salesforce and Oracle’s marketing territory
Everybody loves an underdog, even in the world of corporate marketing. Percolate Industries, Inc. hopes to turn that to its advantage with $40 in fresh capital from investors that will be spent trying to beat the giants of cloud-based engagement at their …
New exploits show SAP less secure than previously thought
After Heartbleed and POODLE, organizations relying on software from SAP SE to power their operations now have a new exploit to worry about that poses a potentially even bigger threat. The vulnerability lies in the way business data is handled when traveling …
IBM brings its analytics clout to multi-channel marketing
IBM is following the competition onto the data-driven marketing bandwagon with the introduction of new cloud services promising to provide a centralized way of tracking and acting upon buying patterns across online channels. The launch takes aim at one of the biggest …
Gartner pours cold water on Hadoop’s party with pessimistic adoption survey
The discrepancy that so often exists between the hype and reality of emerging technologies has caught up to Hadoop, according to a new study from Gartner, Inc. that offers a current view into the state of adoption among the traditional enterprise crowd. …
Citrix revamps its hybrid cloud arsenal at Synergy 2015
Attendees at Citrix Synergy 2015 were treated to the customary barrage of updates from the virtualization powerhouse yesterday in what marks a major step forward along its journey toward the hybrid cloud. The arguably most significant change is coming to NetScaler, the application …
The rumors were true: Nutanix debuts standalone version of converged stack
Barely three months after word first came out that Nutanix Systems Inc. was working on a hardware-agnostic implementation of the software powering its hugely-popular integrated appliances, the product is making its official debut. Nutanix is seeking to lower the barrier to joining the converged …
Pentaho harnesses Apache Spark for lightning-fast ETL
After a year of development, Pentaho Labs has finally finished adapting the data integration and preparation component of its widely-used business intelligence suite to work with Apache Spark. The integration marks its first major update since being acquired by Hitachi’s storage division …