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Big Data for Humans gets $1.2M to deliver data science-as-a-service
U.K.-based Data Science-as-a-Service provider Big Data for Humans Ltd. has come out of stealth backed by a $1.2 million seed funding round led by EC1 Capital Ltd., with additional investment from Firestartr LLP, the Scottish Investment Bank and four Angel investors. Big Data for Humans was founded by graduates from the tech incubator Techstars London, ...
OpenText launches cloud-based Big Data analytics-as-a-Service platform
Canadian Enterprise Information Management software firm OpenText Corp. has rolled out an easy-to-implement cloud-based Big Data analytics service that’s designed to allow businesses to extract insights from their data without building and operating their own infrastructure. Called OpenText Big Data Analytics (BDA), the solution is available now on a tiered subscription pricing basis, billed as ...
Will the iPad Pro be an enterprise hit? Opinions are split
Apple yesterday made its biggest enterprise mobility push yet with the launch of the iPad Pro – a bigger, faster tablet that packs a bunch of improvements aimed at making it more suitable for the workplace. But analysts are divided over whether or not the iPad Pro has enough punch to make a real impact ...
Google rolls out ‘CDN Interconnect’ to cut back on cloud data costs
Google is teaming up with a group of Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers in order to slash bandwidth costs for its cloud infrastructure services users under a new initiative called CDN Interconnect. Google has made agreements with four CDNs that ensure customers who use CloudFlare, Fastly, Highwinds, or Level 3 CDN services together with Google ...
IDC: Strong dollar pushes server makers to the brink
Server makers are being warned to justify price increases with better performance and additional features if they want to avoid a substantial decline in European sales, according to a new report. International Data Corp. (IDC) said in a research note that U.S. firms have been forced to raiser their prices several times this year due ...
Are the cops being cheated on cloud costs?
With law enforcement agencies finding themselves under scrutiny in the wake of a series of controversial shootings of civilians, police departments have begun equipping officers with body cameras in order to document, and hopefully minimize, such events. So-called body cams have already had a measurable impact. In Birmingham, Alabama, the local police department reports a ...
Microsoft rolls out new enterprise features for Windows 10
Microsoft is ready to update Windows 10 with three new enterprise-focused features that weren’t included in the initial release. One of the most interesting new features is Microsoft’s Windows Store for Business, which is essentially a unified Windows Store where admins can make bulk purchases of business apps, and where authorized employees can also purchase ...
Microsoft goes back to court to fight DOJ’s Irish data warrant
Microsoft is preparing to lock horns with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) once again. It’s heading back to court in order to fight a search warrant that demands access to the data of a criminal suspect stored on its Irish servers. Microsoft, which has seen two previous judgements go against it in the lower ...
CloudBerry Lab intros free cloud-based Desktop Backup solution
CloudBerry Lab Ltd., the backup and data management specialist, has just launched Desktop Backup Free with its new Backup 4.3 release. CloudBerry Lab’s solution offers block level backup in addition to real-time and regular, scheduled backups for simple data, local disk image, or bare metal restore, together with an alert feature that tracks backups and ...
Tech vendors’ foreign revenues to decline in 2015
Forrester Research Inc. has come up with a report that seems to justify most U.S. tech companies’ primary excuse for performing so poorly in foreign markets this year. The research outfit says that 2015 will be a “pretty awful” year for most U.S. technology firms, which are struggling to eke out a profit thanks to ...