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IBM’s Spent Over $16B on Analytics Acquisitions Since 2005
IBM is very ambitious when it comes to Big Data. Since 2005 the technology vendor has acquired 34 analytics companies for a grand total of $16 billion, a number that grew to 35 last week with the acquisition of Star Analytics. Star Analytics is a privately held, Redwood City, Calif-based company that makes process-automation software ...
Amazon Needs More than Cheap Cloud Prices to Tackle the Enterprise
Amazon Web Service owns 70 percent of the $2.5 billion public cloud IaaS market, and its business is expected to nearly double this year – is there any hope left for the competition? The answer is yes. AWS was absolutely groundbreaking when it launched in 2006. Amazon’s killer combo of effective scaling and competitive rates ...
iOS Phablet is “Strong Possibility” as We Await Apple’s Next Big Thing
Rumors of an Apple phablet reached new heights last week, amidst a downward spiral for Apple stock, word that the iPhone maker is facing declining demand for its products. For a fickle consumer world accustomed to standard-setting devices from a company made famous by the visionary Steve Jobs, it’s easy to feel Apple owes us ...
Product Launches and Missed Guidance This Week in the Cloud
Since Monday two software firms introduced game changing products, and VMware, the top dog in virtualization, reported financial results together with its parent company EMC. On Monday, BitTorrent unveiled an experimental file sharing service in response to the launch of Mega, the spirited successor of Kim Dotcom’s now defunct Megaupload. Codenamed Sync, BitTorrent’s cloud locker ...
SAP Gains from Dell Launch, CRM Buy
German BI firm SAP is bolstering its CRM portfolio on the back of the industry’s growing interest in HANA. To start, Dell announced a series of data center solutions built specifically to run SAP’s in-memory database. The offering is based on Dell PowerEdge R910 rack-mount servers, and it’s available in configurations that offer anywhere from ...
This Week in #BigData: Security, Unified Analytics and Funding
The big data space has been teeming with activity this week. Several traditional vendors reinforced their commitment to this trend, and two smaller players grabbed headlines with important milestone announcements. For starters, Cisco revealed that it has acquired a Czech network security startup for an undisclosed amount. The Prague-based Cognitive develops behavioral software that analyzes ...
SugarSync Adds Unlimited Cloud Storage to Attract Business Users
Cloud sync provider SugarSync upgraded its business pricing plans to better accommodate large organizations with lots of files and large user bases. It’s the latest development from the cloud service as it transitions deeper into the enterprise space, having won over the consumer market. SugarSync for Business now starts at a flat price of $55 ...
Analyst Calls BlackBerry a Dinosaur, BB10 Half-Baked [VIDEO]
One of this week’s top NewsDesk segments featured Wikibon networking guru Stu Miniman, who discussed the new face of BlackBerry and what it means for the future of the company (full video below). Miniman starts by recapping on the latest news from the Canadian phonemaker: it unveiled the new operating system BB10, announced several new ...
Fusion-io Falls Victim to its Own Success. Apple + Facebook Will Return as Top Clients
Fusion-io shares plummeted as much as 21 percent on the stock exchange yesterday after it reported financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Fusion-io generated $120.6 million in Q2, a 43 percent increase from a year earlier and a quarter million bucks more than what Wall Street expected. Net profit was $1.7 million, compared ...
[Infographic] MuleSoft’s Top 10 Super Bowl APIs
Cloud integration startup MuleSoft is flaunting its new API repository with an infographic published just in time for the Super Bowl. The chart lists 10 services that developers can tap into in order to monetize consumer trends during and after the big game. The first API is from Food2u, a hot meal delivery service that ...