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Graphics and mobile chip maker Nvidia Corp. has surprised Wall Street watchers with unexpectedly strong results for the second-quarter of its fiscal 2016, and has projected similarly strong numbers for the next quarter as well. Nvidia posted earnings of $0.34 per diluted …
Informatica seals $5.3B deal to go private
Data integration and management firm Informatica Corp. has finally concluded a deal to make itself a private company. The $5.3 billion deal was announced this April, and for the first time it can be revealed that Microsoft and Salesforce.com, Inc. have both …
Hortonworks blows past analysts expectations in Q2
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc. gave shareholders lots to cheer about yesterday after posting second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates, and new revenue forecasts well ahead of previous views. The company also reported a substantial increase in new subscriptions as its share …
Systems of Intelligence: What impact will they have? | #BigData on Crowdchat
Wikibon analyst George Gilbert recently penned a groundbreaking piece of research entitled “Systems of Intelligence”, (Part 1 and Part 2) which looks out how the next generation of apps built on intelligent and predictive platforms will revolutionize the ways in which enterprises …
VMware considers buy out of parent company EMC
EMCs existential crisis just keeps getting more confusing. There’s a new twist in the battle for control of the storage giant’s federation, with reports suggesting that EMC is considering being bought out by its subsidiary VMware Inc., the virtualization software giant, on …
Databricks casts its net wider with Apache Spark platform update
Just two months after launching its Apache Spark-powered cloud platform, Databricks has announced a major update with a range of new feautures designed to help users facilitate Spark app development and control access to date. Databricks’ platform is a cloud-based Big Data …
Report: Enterprises aren’t doing enough to mitigate API security threats
A new survey on API security has revealed the emergence of a new “digital divide”, as more companies embrace APIs without fully understanding how to mitigate the new threat vectors that might lead to critical data being exposed. API management firm Akana …
GE’s Industrial Internet heads to the cloud
General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often described as the Internet of Things for big industry. But to do that, GE needs to …
Coverity claims open-source is “significantly” more vulnerable
Coverity, a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc., is controversially claiming that proprietary software is significantly more secure than open-source code. The latest Coverity scan open-source report (PDF) claims that static analysis defect density scans reveal how open-source software has outpaced proprietary software in …
Bing delves into behavioral analytics with Interana
When considering how to do Big Data analytics, most IT people automatically think of Hadoop. But although the legendary elephant toy platform is by far and away the most popular choice, it’s far from being the only stat-crunching tool in the box. …