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ServiceNow on IT operations : New apps for the single system of record
One of the most fundamental problems facing IT is the great variety of individual IT tools available, each having its own set of data, management, and user interfaces. SiliconANGLE founder and CEO John Furrier recently sat down with Dave Wright, VP of Worldwide Solutions Consulting at ServiceNow, to discuss the complexity and lack of standardization ...
Hewlett-Packard ups converged infrastructure game ahead of Barcelona event
Seeking to reduce its dependency on the weakening PC market, Hewlett-Packard is rolling out a set of use case-optimized converged server and storage solutions for the enterprise. Pre-integrated systems are gaining traction among CIOs as information continues grow faster than the ability of traditional data center architectures to accommodate it. The new ConvergedSystem for Virtualization, ...
IBM and The Now Factory’s roadmap for telecom innovation | #IBMIoD
This October, IBM entered a definitive agreement to acquire The Now Factory, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of analytics solutions for telecommunications providers. Tom Morrisroe, the software maker’s CEO, hopped into theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 along with Big Blue’s Janine Grasso to share the insider’s perspective on the deal. Starting with a little background, ...
IBM Big Data VP on decision-making in the modern enterprise | #IBMIoD
Inhi Cho Suh, the head of data integration and governance for IBM’s Software Group, returned to theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 to discuss the role of analytics in decision making with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Suh observes that the market has changed significantly since 2012, with more and more vendors ...
Doculabs co-founder on taming Big Data | #IBMIoD
Richard Medina, the co-founder and principal consultant of Doculabs, hopped into theCUBE at IBM’s Information on Demand 2013 conference to provide an enterprise perspective on the exponential growth in data volumes. Until recently, business operations revolved around traditional systems of record such as relational databases and ERP software. With the emergence of cloud computing, mobile ...
Pica8 launches SDN starter kit to accelerate adoption
A new infographic from Pica8 reveals that while the research and education sector is at the forefront of software-defined networking adoption, with service providers not too far behind, companies in traditional industries like retail and manufacturing are struggling to keep pace. The Palo Alto, California-based startup is doing its part to bridge this chasm with ...
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s all about the startups
Startups are leading the way in Big Data, even managing to grab the attention of the industry’s largest and most profitable companies. On Monday, Apple confirmed that it picked up Topsy in a deal said to be worth more than $200 million. The San Francisco-based social analytics provider is one of only three firms with ...
Pivotal heads to Europe
Pivotal, the Big Data vendor that spun off from EMC and VMware earlier this year, landed in Europe this week with the opening of an office in London’s Tech City, a major startup hub that has attracted investments from Facebook, Google, Intel and a number of other prominent technology companies in the past. Pivotal plans ...
Seeking to tap new markets, Microsoft sharpens security focus
Following in the footsteps of Google and Yahoo, Microsoft revealed plans this week to expand its encryption efforts as part of a company-wide push to put user data beyond the reach of nosy governments. “Like many others, we are especially alarmed by recent allegations in the press of a broader and concerted effort by some ...
Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation takes the limelight
Threatened by AWS, traditional enterprise vendors are pushing OpenStack in a bid to secure a slice of tomorrow’s IT market. IBM, a staunch supporter of the project, recently teamed up with with an emerging systems integrator to make open source private clouds more transparent – and much more viable at scale. Big Blue’s SoftLayer division ...