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Unified monitoring provider Zenoss is extending its flagship Service Dynamics suite with two new plug-ins for Windows Server and Azure environments. In a release, Zenoss cited Bloomberg projections that Azure deployments will surpass $1 billion in sales this year thanks to a …
Apple buys Topsy to tap Twitter’s firehose
Apple has officially jumped on the Big Data bandwagon with the acquisition of Topsy Labs, a social media analytics startup headquartered in San Francisco. The consumer electronics giant confirmed the buy after insiders leaked the news to the Wall Street Journal, but …
Zooming in on GCE: Google gets serious about the public cloud
Google has joined Microsoft and Rackspace on the quest to erode Amazon’s cloud dominance with the launch of its long anticipated platform-as-a-service solution. Originally announced at the company’s sixth annual I/O conference in June 2012, Google Compute Engine features competitive pricing, new …
Accenture bolsters Industrial Internet capabilities with European acquisition
Accenture has picked up evopro group’s manufacturing solutions business to fortify its presence in the emerging Industrial Internet, where intelligent machines meet Big Data to drive operational efficiencies. No financial details were disclosed. Founded in 2001, evopro group provides embedded software and …
Pure Storage, EMC duke it out in court
Less than a month after being hit by a lawsuit from EMC for allegedly colluding with former employees to steal inside information, Pure Storage is firing back at the storage giant with a complaint of its own. The Mountain View, Calif.-based provider …
smartShift’s Arjun Chopra on moving traditional enterprises to the Cloud | #re:Invent2013
Arjun Chopra, the chief technology officer of smartShift Technologies, appeared on theCUBE at Amazon’s recently concluded re:Invent 2013 conference to share his insider’s perspective on porting legacy workloads to the public cloud. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, smartShift helps enterprises re-architect their …
LucidWorks brings multi-structured data analytics to Splunk
In the enterprise, the exponential growth of information is driving the need for a consistent and highly scalable data access layer that can keep up with an ever-expanding workload, while also meeting the performance requirements of end-users. LucidWorks is taking a fresh …
IBM: Black Friday web sales surge thanks to mobile
Mobile shoppers are out in force this holiday season. After sifting through terabytes of transactional data from about 800 U.S. retail websites, IBM found that Black Friday deals on smartphones and tablets accounted for 21.8 percent of total online sales, an increase …
Sumo Logic doesn’t want to cut humans out the data loop | #re:invent2013
Sumo Logic has positioned itself at the forefront of the Internet of Things with a cloud-based machine data analytics solution that empowers organizations to tame the rapid growth in information without a hefty upfront capital investment. Bruno Kurtic, the firm’s founding vice …
Apps Associates VP on AWS in the enterprise | #re:Invent2013
Bill Saltys, the vice president of US operations and business development at Apps Associates, hopped into theCUBE during Amazon’s re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas to share his take on the public cloud value proposition. App Associates is a privately-held provider of …