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Partners steal the show at Amazon re:Invent 2014
Returning attendees of re:Invent this week may have expected to be greeted with the same turret of new services Amazon.com Inc. unleashed at last year’s conference, but the retail giant has prepared a different surprise for the latest installation of its annual cloud show. The barrage of product announcements is once again upon us, but ...
The more you know, the less you do: Rising security awareness hasn’t changed our behavior
The wave of successful cyber attacks that hit U.S. retailers over the last 12 months has drawn broad attention to the failings of traditional security methodologies, but such individual incidents – however far reaching – don’t necessarily reflect the full scope of the privacy problem facing consumers today. The results of the latest poll from ...
CDOs must dig through organizational dirt to uncover the data gold | #IBMInsight
Chief data officers numbered in the single digits not so long ago, but now the title is popping up every which way, from the financial services market to the healthcare industry and even non-core sectors such as manufacturing and media. IBM’s emerging roles leader Cortnie Abercrombie only sees that trend accelerating as the amount of ...
Tableau taps consultancy powerhouse to broaden industry reach
Tableau Software Inc. is further expanding its market presence through a new alliance with Infosys Ltd., one of the largest technology outsourcing providers in the world, to bring the power of data visualization to more business users. The agreement marks the latest in a string of major analytics partnerships revealed over the last two weeks. ...
Dell is putting the converge in Nutanix’s hyperconvergence pitch | #DellWorld
After spending several years trying to carve itself a slice of the convergence infrastructure market to little avail, Dell Inc. finally changed strategies in June, teaming up with Nutanix Inc. to supply the hardware for its wildly popular hyperconverged appliances. Bob Wallace, the head of OEM sales for the fast-growing startup, appeared on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE ...
Tintri ups the ante in the hybrid storage war with new generation of systems
Tintri Inc. is launching a new series of hybrid storage appliances sporting an upgraded version of its homegrown management stack in the latest development from the cutthroat race to deliver the next-generation of flash-enhanced arrays for the enterprise. The move comes days after rival Tegile Inc. revealed a similar combination of hardware and software updates ...
SAP poaches Microsoft’s data platform head to lead strategic cloud analytics push
In a move that could put a strain on one of the longest-running partnerships in the enterprise software market, SAP SE snagged Microsoft veep Quentin Clark to lead its ambitious transition from selling on-premise licenses to providing cloud-based analytic services. The Redmond veteran has officially started his new position as chief technology officer on Monday, slipping ...
After privatization, Michael Dell’s vision for an end-to-end vendor is finally coming together | #DellWorld
Dell Inc. has been a work in progress for the better part of the last decade as Michael Dell worked to make the personal computer maker he established in his dorm room in the 1980s a bigger part of the enterprise market. Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante and principal research contributor Stu Miniman traveled to ...
Historic tipping point for mobile shopping expected this holiday season
Smartphones and tablets will take a lead role in the forthcoming holiday shopping season, IBM Corp. predicts in its newly published forecast for the five-day retail frenzy, pushing the trend of mobile payments to new heights. If the tech giant is to be believed, 2014 will go down in the history books as a year ...
What you missed in Cloud: the container bandwagon gets even more crowded
The pressure on IT organizations to catch up with the cloud providers taking over more and more of the technology services that they used deliver is driving demand for a better way of virtualizing infrastructure than doesn’t necessitate setting up a mountain of scaffolding for every instance. Docker Inc. was first to address that requirement ...