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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 ...
BlackBerry CEO brings in yet another former colleague to replicate Sybase turnaround
BlackBerry chief executive John Chen, credited with saving Sybase from its death spiral, is putting his old team back together in a bid to beat the odds once again and restore the struggling phone maker to its former glory. The leadership reshuffle kicked off in December with the appointment of John Sims, the former head ...
Wikibon defines Server SAN: the intersection of hyperscale, convergence and flash
The issues that are being tackled by web-scale giants today provide a glimpse of the challenges in tomorrow’s enterprise data center. In particular, the need to manage large volumes of information with minimum delay is driving the emergence of Server SAN , a new infrastructure paradigm that Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman places at ...
Cloudera: Impala is faster than Hive, and here are the numbers to prove it
Cloudera is on a journey to make Hadoop enterprise-ready, and central to that mission is the integration of enterprise capabilities into the Big Data stack. That includes high-availability, recoverability and business intelligent features like structured query, a gap that the company is working to bridge with Impala. Launched in October 2012 and released for general ...
IBM puts aside $1B for new dedicated Watson business
IBM is bolstering its commitment to bringing cognitive computing into the enterprise mainstream with a new business unit that will focus exclusively on commercializing Watson, the company announced at a recent New York event. The move, which follows a similar decision by Cisco to consolidate its Internet of Things offerings under a single division, underscores ...