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Dell, HP receive top customer satisfaction ratings in the enterprise
While traditional retailers are struggling to match their online rivals in providing positive shopping experiences (a trend that IBM says will be reversed in the next five years,) some big name enterprise vendors are already dominating customer satisfaction rankings. The latest survey from Technology Business Research, a New Hampshire-based market analysis firm, found that Dell ...
Tech giants boost OpenStack ecosystem with new software
OpenStack has come long way since its release in July 2010. Originally developed by Rackspace and NASA, the project is now managed by an industry-backed foundation comprised of representatives from a wide range of companies. Red Hat and IBM, two of the most prominent OpenStack contributors, are pushing to make the platform more attractive for ...
HP Big Data execs go in-depth on analytics | #HPDiscover
HP Autonomy global lead Brian Weiss and Shilpa Lawande, HP Vertica’s vice president of engineering, appeared on theCUBE at Discover 2013 for an in-depth discussion of the technology titan’s Big Data value proposition. Vertica 7, the latest version of the analytic database, launched a few weeks prior to the event’s kick off in Barcelona. Lowndes ...
Oracle goes after Salesforce with $1.5 billion Responsys buy
The long-standing rivarly between Oracle and cloud CRM kingpin Salesforce.com turned up a notch last Friday with the database maker’s acquisition of online marketing specialist Responsys. The deal is valued at $27 per share, a 38 percent premium over the firm’s closing price on Thursday and the equivalent of about $1.5 billion. The San Bruno, ...
HP marketing VPs talk customer engagement | #HPDiscover
Big Data is changing the way marketers identify and target their audiences, enabling brands to gain greater insight into competitive dynamics and realize higher returns on their customer acquisition investments. HP Vertica vice president of marketing Chris Selland and his Autonomy counterpart Gabriele Di Piazza appeared on theCUBE at the recent Discover summit to share ...
Weekly security review: NSA spying, RATs and a 40M Black Friday sting
It’s been another action-packed week in the world of cybersecurity, with the NSA stoking more controversy over its global intelligence gathering practices. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon found that the spy agency’s telephone data surveillance program is illegal, and likely unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by one Larry Klayman, who ...
Internet of Things review: software giants battle for connected dominance
The race towards the Internet of Things is heating up, with Google upping the ante on wearable tech by rolling out a set of new features for its buzzed-about smart eyewear product. The latest update to Google Glass introduces the ability to snap a photo with a wink even when the display is off. The ...
BlackBerry hires three SAP execs to lead transformation
John Chen, the man who proved doubters wrong after turning Sybase around and selling it to SAP for $5.8 billion, is now facing the biggest challenge of his career: repeating history with BlackBerry. The newly appointed CEO of the struggling mobile maker is facing the daunting task of staging a comeback in a market dominated ...
Attunity acquires SAP partner for a slice of BI, HANA
Attunity, a Massachusetts-based developer of data replication and loading software, is acquiring Hayes Technology Group to establish a presence in the SAP ecosystem. The German business intelligence giant boasts over 250,000 enterprise customers globally, a growing number of which are adopting the HANA in-memory database in pursuit of faster insights. Terms of the deal were ...
Cloudera and Amazon take Hadoop to the cloud
Cloudera and Amazon have joined forces to democratize Hadoop in the latest push to converge cloud computing and analytics, two of the hottest and most disruptive trends in IT. The pair announced the collaboration this morning, just days after Impala – Cloudera’s open source query engine for unstructured information – launched on Amazon Elastic MapReduce. ...