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IBM continues patent spree with Cloud data integration technique
IBM earned a record 6,478 U.S. patents in 2012, marking the 20th straight year that it racked up more innovations than any other company. Big Blue is bent on extending this streak for another year, and is just as keen on gaining a Big Data foothold in the cloud. Inching ever closer to its goals, ...
Superior Group CIO talks social enterprise and reporting | #IBMIoD
Appearing on theCUBE at IBM’s recent Information on Demand 2013 summit in Las Vegas, Tom DeClerck, an industry veteran with over 15 years of experience in leading IT projects, got down to the nitty-gritty of managing infrastructure for a midsize company. DeClerck is the CIO of Superior Group, a privately-held staffing agency based in Buffalo, ...
IBM fellow on bad data and analytics | #IBMIoD
Jeff Jonas, an IBM Fellow and the chief scientist of Big Blue’s Entity Analytics Group, dropped by theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 to share his unique perspective on Big Data variety and the importance of errors in delivering better insights. Kicking off the discussion, Jonas recalls working with a European bank that sought to ...
Ray Wang on Big Blue’s Battle with AWS | #IBMIoD
The largest legal battle in the history of the cloud ended this June when a federal court dismissed a complaint by IBM against the CIA’s decision to award a $600 million IT infrastructure contract to Amazon. The ruling marked a major victory for AWS, but the deal pales in comparison to what’s at stake now: ...
How will traditional IT vendors keep up with AWS? | #re:Invent2013
With DevOps starting to gain traction outside of Silicon Valley, a growing number of developers are bypassing their CIOs in adopting cloud services that deliver on the promise of simplified provisioning and full stack integration. Amazon is capitalizing on this trend to reshape the vendor landscape and establish itself as the dominant player in enterprise ...
Amazon differentiates on scale | #re:Invent2013
TheCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante concluded Amazon’s action-packed re:Invent 2013 conference with a breakdown of the newest AWS services followed by an in-depth discussion of the competitive landscape for cloud computing. Amazon unveiled a slew of solutions during the three-day event, including a stream processing engine called Kinesis, RDS replication across multiple Availability ...
AWS empowers startups, enterprises to innovate faster | #re:Invent2013
Public cloud adoption is picking up in the enterprise, with evolving business requirements and shadow IT increasingly driving CIOs to extend their infrastructure beyond the firewall. At the center of this revolution is AWS, which is set to reach $4 billion in revenue by the end of this year as business users continue to embrace ...
Tableau unlocks the value of data through visualization | #tcc13
With the exponentially growing Internet of Things generating unstructured information faster than our ability to monitor it, enterprises are struggling to collect and process data at the speed of business while maintaining cost efficiencies. But overcoming the technical barriers to analytics is only the first step towards unlocking the value of Big Data. In order ...
Tableau makes Big Data accessible for business users | #tcc13
Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and Principal Analyst Jeff Kelly kicked off the sixth annual Tableau Customer Conference in Washington, D.C. with a thorough introduction to the company, its impact on the analytics landscape and the competition. Vellante opens the discussion with a little background on Tableau, detailing that the firm’s sales grew more than 70 ...
Analysis: Amazon consumerizes enterprise computing | #re:Invent2013
Amazon’s recently concluded re:Invent 2013 summit marked a turning point in the company’s journey to extend its dominance to the enterprise. The re:Invent 2013 juggernaut advanced into the realm of managed services and opened new fronts against traditional IT vendors, furthering its vision to to bring about the demise of the data center. Like Hadoop, ...