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What are the oldest technology companies still operating today? Before Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Oracle and Microsoft there was IBM, AT&T and Hewlett-Packard. General Electric goes all the way back to Thomas Edison in 1892. These are all household names to be …
Is content still king? NetApp’s head of strategy challenges conventional wisdom
The belief that “content is king” may have been codified into the collective consciousness in 1996 when none other than Microsoft Corp.’s Bill Gates wrote an essay by the same name. At the time, Gates believed that anything appearing on the internet …
Big data stretch: Dell EMC goes elastic in new partnership
Late last month Dell EMC announced the Elastic Data Platform, designed to augment big data deployments with scalability and stronger controls around user access. The news was jointly released not just by Dell EMC, but through two of its key partners: BlueData …
InData predicts growing demand for computer vision in data science world
Data science has made rapid advances in automated understanding of spoken or written text. It’s now possible to take mountains of data from customer feedback, for example, and gain high-level insight into whether a business might soon experience a retention problem. But …
BMC Software takes a shift left to entice developers
In the technology world these days, when someone says that it’s time to shift left, they usually aren’t talking about lining up their friends for a selfie shot. Instead, shift left is an approach that places development tasks, such as monitoring, testing …
GlaxoSmithKline leverages AtScale to keep big data big
It’s like celebrating a birthday with a huge, nicely decorated cake, but the only view of it is one lonely slice. That’s the feeling that many companies have when trying to visualize and use large data sets in the enterprise. But one …
IBM is so confident in PowerAI, it now comes with a guarantee
PowerAI, announced last year by IBM Corp., is geared for companies who might appreciate all that Watson (IBM’s cognitive computing and artificial intelligence supercomputer) has to offer. But they still desire a software toolkit that allows them to build an impressive deep …
IT complexity, lock-in create unease in the enterprise
When executives from the data management and storage company NetApp Inc. meet with customers, some common themes usually emerge. Companies are trying to modernize existing infrastructure, looking to build the next-generation data center, or they want to harness the power of the …
Big Iron meets Big Data: Syncsort loves those legacy systems
It seems as though the technology industry has been trying to bury Big Iron (a.k.a. the mainframe computer) for the past 30 years. The demise of Big Iron was the premise behind Sun Microsystems Inc. in the 1980s, but Sun is basically …
IBM wants to give data scientists a lot more free time
When it comes to managing data in the enterprise, words like “cleansing,” “wrangling” or “preparation” are frequently used to describe the work necessary to place information in the right shape and form so it can be effectively used. If this sounds like …