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Not even if they paid us! Globalfoundries turns down $1B from IBM to take over chip biz
IBM has reportedly hit its first major bump on the road to rid itself of the low-margin chip business after long-time supplier Globalfoundries Inc. refused a $1 billion offer to take over its struggling semiconductor operations. If true, the collapse of the negotiations with the chip maker marks a setback for CEO Virginia Rometty, who ...
Equinix cements position in hybrid cloud with Blue Box support
The promise of a hybrid cloud that makes it possible to shift workloads between on- and off-premise environments based on the specific business requirements at hand is certainly compelling, but what it has in allure it lacks in practicality. The ability to provision and move applications across geographically distributed requires meeting a host of difficult ...
Weeding out bot traffic the Big Data way, comScore makes first acquisition in years
Data science has proven an invaluable asset in identifying malicious activity on the corporate network, a benefit that comScore Inc. is looking to put in the hands of online marketers with the purchase of MdotLabs Inc., its first acquisition in three years. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal. The Wisconsin-based startup, which spun ...
After 9-month beta, RightScale launches multi-cloud analytics platform
From Netflix Inc.’s decision to open-source the Ice utility it uses for tracking internal Amazon Web Services (AWS) consumption to the recent move by Rackspace Inc. to simplify its pricing model, the industry’s collective efforts have helped make the public cloud more transparent than it was just a few years ago. But although monitoring individual ...
The human side to data governance | #MITIQ
There are as many opinions on the role of the chief data officer (CDO) as there definitions of the emerging position, but few are as well-informed as that of professor Yang Lee from Northwestern University. She helped author one of the single most comprehensive studies on the subject to date, the findings of which were ...
Sqrrl ups Hadoop support through integration with Hunk visualization
The security industry is increasingly embracing Hadoop as the standard for large-scale analytics. Sqrrl, Inc. is now offering to help customers make more of the batch processing platform – and their machine-generated logs – through newly expanded integration with Splunk, Inc.’s Hunk data visualization tool. The venture-backed Sqrrl was founded in 2012 by former NSA ...
Western Digital claims breakthrough in flash storage performance
Move over, NAND; there’s a new flash architecture in town. HGST Inc., the enterprise storage supplier that merged into hard drive kingpin Western Digital Corp. two years ago, has unveiled a proof-of-concept that it claims surpasses the current gold standard for solid-state memory by a wide margin. The subsidiary claims that the prototype, which is ...
What you missed in Cloud: piecemealing the hybrid computing revolution
The hybrid cloud offers tremendous opportunities for driving operational efficiencies in the enterprise, but poses an equally great set of challenges that the vendor community has yet to address in its entirety. Fast progress is being made on changing that, however. The number of individual barriers holding organizations back from adopting the new paradigm of ...
IBM and Oracle tackle organizational complexity with acquisitions
The spread of mobile devices and cloud services has made workers more productive, but also introduced new issues of accountability and control. IBM and Oracle Corp. both moved to address these complexities this week through acquisitions. IBM’s acquisition of Italian startup CrossIdeas s.r.l. gives it a new set of tools to help organizations track which employee is accessing ...
The flip side of the CDO story | #MITIQ
As as is happening with other regulated industries, the financial services sector is seeing a sharp increase in the number of chief data officers at the top of the business, but some companies are still going against the flow – and succeeding. One of the most notable examples is State Street Corporation, where the task ...