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OpenStack, convergence + flash rapidly transform IT : Big vendors adopting | #VTUG
Last week, for the first time since its inception eight years ago, the Virtual Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer conference wasn’t just about VMware. The more than 1,500 practitioners who attended the event split their attention between multiple platforms, a change reflective of the industry-wide shift, to a multi-hypervisor approach. This trend underscores the ...
Oracle and Salesforce’s love-hate relationship takes a twist with new connector
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is putting his old grudges aside as part of an effort to loosen Amazon’s monopolistic grip on infrastructure-as-a-service and establish a foothold in the public cloud market. Recognizing that it needs all the help it can get, the database giant is making new friends and even warming up to arch-nemesis Salesforce. ...
Weekly Security review: retail hacks continue + more NSA snooping
Last week, we learned that the security breach that hit Target during the holiday season was much more severe than previously believed. An internal investigation concluded that hackers have gotten away with financial information, phone numbers and email addresses belonging to as many as 110 million customers – a cyber theft of historical proportions. But ...
Internet of Things review: Google buys Nest, doubles down on smart eyewear
Google is sparing no expense to extend its web dominance over the Internet of Things. On Monday, four weeks after buying out robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics, the search behemoth announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest, which earlier this month secured $150 million in ...
Weekly Big Data review: IBM invests another billion, MongoDB and Cloudera make gains
IBM CEO Virginia Rometty is looking to position her firm at the front end of Big Data innovation with Watson, the game show winning supercomputer that pushed the envelope on natural language processing. Big Blue is investing a massive $1 billion to create a dedicated business unit for the system that Rometty hopes will generate ...
Weekly Cloud review: Nutanix bags $101M, GitHub buys another company
Hypeconvergence made a return to the headlines this week after Nutanix, a provider of “data center in a box” solutions, secured a massive $101 million in Series D financing. The round was co-led by Riverwood and SAP Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Greenspring Associates and the three existing investors. Nutanix said that ...
IBM’s new server architecture tackles cloud, analytics with flash
For IBM, it’s go big or go home. In the past year alone, the technology giant injected $1 billion into flash research, committed another billion to promote application development on its Power servers and carved out Watson as a dedicated unit tasked with applying natural language processing in analytics. The division is starting off with ...
It’s official: HP dives back into mobile market with voice-activated hybrids
After much speculation and assurances that the mistakes of the Palm acquisition won’t be repeated, Hewlett-Packard is once again trying its luck in the mobile space with two new phablets for Indian consumers. The company is looking to establish solid footing before venturing back into the more mature markets of North America and Europe, where ...
Harvard prof. outlines barriers to global Internet governance | #MITECIR
Venkatesh Naryanamurti, a Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Harvard, was at the recently concluded MIT ECIR Workshop event to share his unique perspective on innovation and policymaking in the interconnected era. Naryanamurti, known for his work in the areas of condensed matter and applied physics, believes that innovation is a creative process ...
SAP’s cloud transition hindered by executive departures
Judging by its fourth quarter and full year earnings results, SAP’s plans to substitute revenue from clunky enterprise software with data-driven applications and cloud services are coming along nicely. HANA remained the German business intelligence giant’s fastest growing product despite being hit by currency swings, while cloud subscription rose 39 percent over the last three ...