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Google ups video ante against Facebook with “real-time” YouTube analytics
Hot on the heels of Facebook Inc. opening up more metrics about videos uploaded to its site, Google Inc. is upping the ante with the introduction of reporting functionality for content creators on YouTube. The release marks the latest escalation in what is shaping up as a full-blown feature war between the world’s top video ...
What you missed in Cloud: that $8.3BN SAP deal and the latest from the startup scene
Acquisitions are such a frequent occurrence in the public cloud that it’s almost unusual for a week to go by without some established vendor picking up a smaller player to fill a hole in its portfolio that would be more costly to plug internally. Purchases that fall above the financial disclosure threshold are scarcer and ...
What you missed in Big Data: major changes afoot from Hadoop to Oracle
Now in the final lap, the Hadoop distribution race is seeing the remaining contenders become increasingly reluctant to stay in their respective lanes and actively seek outside help to differentiate, an opportunity that traditional vendors are exploiting to try and get back on the analytics saddle. The past week saw Dell Inc. become the newest ...
Cloud vendors inject more security into their networks
In an effort to address one of customers’ most persistent worries about using public cloud infrastructure, IBM has teamed up with AT&T Corp. to provide private connections to its Softlayer data centers. The partnership will give organizations the option of linking up their environments to IBM’s public cloud through AT&T’s NetBond service, thereby matching IaaS kingpin ...
Red Hat shores up mobile strategy with FeedHenry acquisition
Red Hat Inc. has put hybrid computing at the center of its long-term growth strategy, but while the company’s on-premise software portfolio may be second to none in the open-source world, its public cloud lineup lags behind the competition in both adoption and functionality. The Linux giant hopes to narrow the gap with the acquisition ...
If Infor has its way, tomorrow’s enterprise systems will run entirely in the cloud
Infor Inc., the privately-held enterprise juggernaut with a knack for flying under the industry’s radar, is following in the footsteps of its better-known competitors to the public cloud. But while SAP SE and Oracle Corp. are adjusting for the new way of delivering applications one product and strategic acquisition at a time, the stealthy software ...
OpenStackSV: a defining coming-together in the history of the community
The inaugural OpenStack Silicon Valley summit at the Computer History Museum this week has been a long time in the making, and it showed. Although hardly the first event dedicated to the fast-growing project, nor the longest, the half-day conference brought together the leading names from every corner of the community driving the development of ...
Cisco buys into the OpenStack horse race with Metacloud acquisition
Cisco Systems Inc. may have made its name selling proprietary switches and routers to traditional enterprises, but the networking stalwart is determined to be a part of the open-source hybrid cloud. The company stepped up its efforts on Wednesday with the landmark acquisition of Metacloud Inc., one of the dozens of contenders vying for dominance ...
Wolfram brings the Swiss Army knife of the analytics world to the public cloud
The growing trend of analytics vendors taking their software to the public cloud has been joined by an academic stalwart that is still little-known in the enterprise arena: Wolfram Research Inc., best known as the company behind the Mathematica technical computing engine, one of the most tried-and-tested instruments on the data scientist’s toolbelt. The platform is ...
Cloudera extends sales reach with Dell SI partnership
Another week, another landmark partnership in the world of Hadoop. Market leader Cloudera Inc. has inked an agreement with Dell Inc. under which the hardware giant’s consultancy business will provide systems integration services for organizations seeking to deploy its data crunching platform but don’t have the internal talent to do so on their own. The ...