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SignalFx spiffs up analytics-based monitor for complex systems
SignalFx Inc., a startup that claims to have a radical new approach to system monitoring in the age of containers and micro services, is enhancing its core platform with new features to better detect anomalies in complex infrastructure. The venture-backed company, which emerged from stealth about a year ago, is applying big data analytics principles ...
Colorado builds childcare-rating system on Salesforce.com – really
With more than 9,000 early childhood care and development facilities spread across the state, the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood has its hands full keeping track of the places and people responsible for the welfare of the state’s most vulnerable residents. The task was made no easier by the fragmented state of the ...
Lattice Engines says it knows when prospects are ready to buy
Predictive marketing software provider Lattice Engines Inc. is bidding for the hearts and minds of business-to-business marketers with a new platform that predicts whether prospects are ready to buy and when. It then routes that information to the appropriate sales representatives in seconds. The Lattice Predictive Insight Platform unifies real-time lead scoring and self-service predictive modeling ...
CloudBolt automates cloud bursting
CloudBolt Software Inc. has added cloud bursting support to its virtual machine self-provisioning software, enabling customers to specify CPU thresholds at which workloads can automatically expand into public infrastructure-as-a-service without user intervention. Cloud bursting is simple in concept but difficult in execution. The idea is to relieve temporary spikes in demand that can bog down ...
Why the future will be 3D printed
The next big breakthroughs in additive manufacturing – also called 3D printing – won’t be as showy as notable recent examples of printed houses and cars, but they will be no less dramatic in their impact. The process of taking ideas from concept to reality is being transformed by software, promising to shrink design times, ...
Atlassian adds workflow features, launches first mobile app
In conjunction with its sold-out developer conference in Barcelona, Atlassian Corp. PLC added significant new functionality to its Bitbucket shared development platform and released its first mobile apps. The Australian software company, which specializes in tools to manage software development projects, introduced Bitbucket Pipelines beta, a continuous delivery service built within Bitbucket Cloud that provides ...
Informatica courts marketers with data lake made just for them
Amid predictions that heads of marketing will soon outspend heads of IT on technology, Informatica LLC is rolling out a version of its Intelligent Data Lake integration and analysis platform targeted specifically at marketers. And in the spirit of eating one’s own dog food, it said it has tested the new Marketing Data Lake product inside ...
Cray cozies up to enterprises with analytics supercomputer
Cray Research Inc., a computer maker better known for supplying research scientists than data analysts, would nevertheless like to be your analytics vendor. The company is releasing today the Urika-GX Agile Analytics Platform, a supercomputer for the rest of us that fits in a standard data center footprint and supports a host of open source ...
Earnings preview: Can HPE maintain the momentum?
By most accounts, splitting off from the PC and printer side of the former Hewlett-Packard Co. business has been a good move for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). In March, the company topped analyst expectations for the first quarter results and issued strong guidance for the remainder of the fiscal year. Now investors and customers ...
EY targets auto makers with reliability analytics service
Ernst & Young Global Ltd. (EY) has introduced a new service for manufacturers that leverages large volumes of both structured and unstructured data for use in predicting equipment reliability. Built on SAP SE’s HANA database, SAP HANA Vora software, SAP– Predictive Analytics and Hortonworks Inc.’s Data Platform (HDP), the EY Predictive Reliability Analytics service provides a ...