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Outsourcing 2.0: IBM snags multi-billion dollar global deal with private cloud component
IBM has landed a multi-billion dollar contract to provide a major state-owned bank in Europe with cloud and professional services encompassing key parts of its operations over the next ten years. The lucrative deal marks a major victory for CEO Virginia Rometty as she works to steer the enterprise stalwart back onto a growth course ...
Portugal’s Veniam bags $4.9 million to turn vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots
The concept of free Wi-Fi coverage in urban areas is nothing new, but range and other logistical limitations have hampered efforts to provide connectivity on municipal scales. Enter Veniam, an up-and-coming European startup that bagged $4.9 million in funding from top US investors on Tuesday bring its unique approach to the challenge to American cities. ...
HP drops software-defined bombshells in Barcelona | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard Co. kicked off its annual Discover conference in Barcelona with the introduction of new software-defined solutions aimed at countering the rise of emerging hardware startups that are putting a programmable spin on data center equipment. The soon-to-split Palo Alto giant is fighting fire with fire. The arguably most significant addition to HP’s arsenal is ...
Finland’s UpCloud releases some eye-popping performance numbers
UpCloud Ltd. has introduced a new storage option that could send ripples through the market. The Finnish service promises to provide ultra-fast flash capacity at a fraction of the current cost. The launch follows hot on the heels of UpCloud’s expansion into the U.S. with the opening of a Chicago data center. MaxIOPS, as the latest ...
Milestone: IBM says mobile devices surpass PCs in holiday e-commerce traffic
Smartphones and tablets accounted for most of the traffic to online retail sites during Thanksgiving, according to new IBM figures. It’s the first time mobile devices have surpassed PCs in generating cyber-sales in the seven years IBM has been measuring activity. Drawing on real-time transactional data from some 8,000 brands around the world, Big Blue ...
Researchers cite major flaws in common social media measurement techniques
Social media offers a treasure trove of real-time data about consumer behavior and sentiment across every imaginable segment of society, but that information loses its value without proper context. And that is proving the downfall of all too many analytics projects today, according to a study from two computer scientists recently published in the journal ...
Docker CEO: Commercial management software in the pipe | #reinvent
Three months after last appearing on theCUBE at VMworld 2014, Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub returned to the mobile studio on the occasion of another major partner’s conference to provide an update on what changed at the industry’s hottest cloud startup in the last quarter. The veteran executive shared a by-now familiar story of breakneck ...
SoftNAS seeks to simplify storage management for the rest of us | #reinvent
Moving to the public cloud is turning into a more attractive alternative to the complexity of running private infrastructure by the week, but the operational challenges higher up the stack become the same as those in on-premise environments. One such priority is managing the configuration and allocation of storage capacity. In a recent interview on theCUBE, SoftNAS ...
Jaspersoft drives vision of BI for the rest of us | #reinvent
Six months after merging into TIBCO Software Inc., Jaspersoft is continuing to spread its vision for embedded business intelligence (BI) to new markets and seek customers who wouldn’t otherwise consider BI solutions, according to cloud veep Karl Van den Berg. The executive, who joined the company as part of the acquisition from his role as ...
AWS public sector boss: Cloud computing unclogging governments everywhere | #reinvent
The government doesn’t exactly have a reputation for staying on top of technology trends, but when it comes to cloud computing, the bureaucratic machine seems to be making an exception. Amazon Web Services (AWS) global public sector vice president Teresa Carlson recently returned to theCUBE to share her firsthand perspective on how the pay-as-you-go model ...