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Salesforce adds Intelligence Engine to its Service Cloud
Salesforce.com is touting a new platform which it says can help companies take advantage of “data science” to deliver better customer services. Called the “Intelligence Engine” for its Service Cloud, the platform is designed to leverage the increasing amounts of data being fed into organizations by the Internet of Things, and deliver a more rapid ...
Google suffers new cloud outage, promises to be “better prepared”
Google’s cloud platform suffered another outage over the weekend in an incident that seems similar to a more serious brownout that took place last month. Google said the latest outage affecting its Compute Engine, which was first reported by The Register, came about due to a “packet loss on agress network traffic”, which caused an ...
Gartner: Legacy vendors stay on top of the data analytics tree
The old legacy database vendors might still be the top dogs when it comes to data analytics, but their Hadoop-wielding rivals are hot on their heels, according to Gartner Inc.’s latest magic quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics. In its latest analysis, Gartner closely examined the solutions of 17 analytics vendors, ...
Alibaba shakes up the cloud wars with entry into U.S. market
The cloud computing wars have entered a new phase with the news that Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group is to open its first data center in Silicon Valley, where it will go head-to-head with home grown cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft. Alibaba, which held the largest IPO in history last year ...
Hadoop vendors turn up the heat as ODP debate ensues
Hadoop heavyweights Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks, Inc. were at each other’s throats again this week, as they continued a lively debate around the merits of what the latter company is calling the new “governing body” of Hadoop’s development, the so-called Open Data Platform (ODP). For those out of the loop, the ODP was established just over ...
SanDisk shakes up the storage stack with new all-flash storage appliance
SanDisk, a company that’s best known for making consumer thumb drives and SD cards, made waves in the storage world this week by entering the market with a flash array that is claimed to be the first to break the $1/gigabyte barrier. InfiniFlash comes at a much lower cost than similar offerings from mainstream disk system vendors ...
IBM steps up mobile enterprise push with 3 new Apple apps
Pressing ahead with an alliance it forged with Apple last year, IBM has just unveiled a fresh crop of enterprise-focused iPhone apps at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, targeting the banking, retail, and airline industries. IBM’s partnership with Apple was initiated last summer, and has already resulted in ten industry-specific apps launched last December, ...
HP advances hybrid cloud push with Helion updates
Hewlett-Packard Co. has reinforced its commitment to the hybrid cloud model with the launch of an updated version of its enterprise-focused, Openstack-based Helion cloud platform. The biggest news is that HP is restoring Helion’s compatibility with Amazon Web Services, following a decision to drop support for the leading cloud vendor with its first major release ...
Network Wars: Aruba give HP needed credibility in wireless market
Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday confirmed rumors it wants to buy out Aruba Networks Inc., announcing it would acquire the company later this year in a deal worth almost $3 billion. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors at both companies and means Aruba will be absorbed into the HP Enterprise Group led by ...
Drones in the enterprise: How high can they go?
Drones, also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are undergoing a dramatic transformation as they evolve from expensive toy to critical business tool. Fitted with sensors and miniature cameras, these unpiloted aircraft are being pressed into service in many industries – scanning agriculatural land and spraying pesticides, making movies, searching for survivors in disaster-hit areas, and ...