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What you missed in Big Data: Artificial intelligence meets personalized content
Rising consumer expectations for personalized and timely content is driving marketers to abandon traditional methodologies in favor of new data-driven approaches to providing tailored experiences. Artificial intelligence is emerging as an increasingly popular means of accomplishing that, with an entire array of vendors both big and small currently working to productize the technology for the ...
Converged infrastructure: Balancing standardization + flexibility | #EMCworld
There’s far more to converged infrastructure than just bundling individual hardware components together, according to Gary Garcia, the director of global solutions marketing for EMC’s VSPEX line of pre-integrated reference architectures. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the storage stalwart’s recently concluded customer show in Las Vegas, he made it clear that the focus lies much ...
MongoDB joins forces with Bosch to develop data-driven apps for the Internet of Things
The flood of machine-generated data from the Internet of Things is one of the primary drivers behind the accelerating adoption of non-relational systems touted as both flexible and scalable enough to keep pace with the explosion in connected devices. MongoDB, the company behind the popular open source document store of the same, is riding the ...
Couchbase helps mobile developers tame their unstructured data with first-of-its-kind NoSQL suite
Although it has grown tremendously over the last few years against the backdrop of the explosion in unstructured information, the database market still has a lot of white space left to fill, much of it in mobile. As a consequence that product gap, app developers often have no choice but to compromise. There exist plenty ...
Salesforce.com mobilizes the cloud with companion app upgrade
In many ways, the proliferation of phones and tablets in the enterprise is serving as a conduit for cloud computing, unshackling productivity from the desktop and allowing users to take advantage of the platform-agnostic experiences made possible by the as-a-service model. Realizing that, Salesforce.com has been investing heavily to grow its mobile presence in recent ...
IBM’s storage vision rising from the ashes | #IBMEdge
Like so many other technological innovations throughout the 20th century, the disk drive was too invented by IBM. But the company had seen its technical dominance of the storage space erode over the years due to a combination of internal and external factors that shifted the strategic focus to areas deemed more important by management. ...
Big Blue attacks EMC’s ViPR with its own spin on software-defined storage | #IBMEdge
It’s been a busy couple of days at IBM’s Edge conference in Las Vegas, with the enterprise technology stalwart unleashing a slew of product updates in a grand follow-up to the debut of its software-defined Elastic Storage platform last Monday. The technology, which incorporates components from the vendor’s Jeopardy!-winning Watson machine, serves as an abstraction ...
Top vendors closer to operationalizing analytics in the enterprise
The promise of analytics as a source of differentiation at the organizational level, in business as well as IT, remains beyond the reach of most traditional enterprises due to a combination of technical and cultural barriers that has proven too complex to be solved by a single blanket solution. So many vendors are taking an ...
SAP software coming to Azure this quarter
Software stalwarts Microsoft and SAP are combining their resources in a joint push to expand their respective public cloud footprints and attempt to capture a bigger slice of the growing percentage of enterprise workloads moving outside the corporate firewall. The firms will target both business users and developers as part of the collaboration, which was ...
Oracle enters Server SAN market with GreenBytes acquisition
Hit by the information explosion several years before the traditional enterprise, Internet giants such as Google and Facebook were forced to fundamentally rethink IT infrastructure, pioneering a radically different approach to delivering IT services that push the envelope on economies of scale. Their efforts have resulted in the development of an architecture Wikibon has defined ...