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IBM to buy Weather Company, launch IoT Watson business unit
IBM is getting into the weather forecasting business and, at least for the short term, becoming a big customer of Amazon Web Services. In a $2 billion deal that grew out of a partnership announced this summer, IBM said it will acquire The Weather Company’s business-to-business, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground ...
VMware’s Patel: Virtustream will be a top-five cloud service provider
EMC and VMware Inc. last week joined forces to combine their respective cloud capabilities with those of Virtustream Inc., the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this year. The companies said the move is meant to enable customers to move all applications to hybrid cloud-based IT environments using ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Does the Dell-EMC deal make sense?
“It’s the end of an era for storage,” declared Wikibon Analyst Stu Miniman (@stu, right), summing up the symbolic impact of Dell Inc.’s planned acquisition of storage giant EMC. As a former EMCer himself, Miniman has some special insight on what made that company great and how the combined companies can leverage their assets to ...
Teradata sucks up IoT data, tightens Hadoop embrace
Teradata Corp. kicked off its annual user conference this week with a series of announcements that move its big data platform into the emerging world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and tighten its embrace of the Hadoop platform. The company’s first IoT foray is Teradata Listener, a software gateway that the company described as ...
GoodData makes analytics distribution personal
In a rollout billed as a “partial re-positioning of the company,” analytics maker GoodData Corp. today rolled out an analytics distribution platform that makes it possible for data owners to distribute information from their own warehouses on a personalized basis to individuals, channel affiliates and other constituents. The initiative is based on the assumption that ...
Startup aims to shake up contract management with free service
Armed with $2.7 million of angel investment and a target market of “the world,” Concord Worldwide Inc. today is introducing a full-feature contract management service that it’s giving away for free. The software-as-a-service offering includes features that are typically limited to paid products, such as online document editing, version control, attachments, and discussion. Concord also ...
Opinion: Amazon bids to become the Microsoft of the cloud
I started my technology journalism career in the early 1980s, when IBM’s market dominance was so complete that each year it sopped up half of the industry’s revenues and 80 percent of its profits. I also covered Microsoft during its ascent into desktop dominance. These two amazing companies achieved almost unbelievable power in very competitive markets because ...
Exclusive interview: Amazon enters IoT maker market #reinvent
Amazon Web Services is jumping into the Internet of things today with the introduction of AWS IoT, a collection of devices and software services that people can user to experiment with self-monitoring and automatically controlled environments. In an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, Glenn Gore, Senior Manager of Technology Solutions at AWS, explained ...
Clusterpoint adds computation to NoSQL database engine
NoSQL database-as-a-service vendor Clusterpoint SIA is using the year’s hottest word – “disruption” – to describe the latest version of its namesake product. In version 4, Clusterpoint has added computational capability to the database engine, enabling data to be shared among multiple nodes, with code-execution capability on each node. Clusterpoint is positioning the new release ...
AWS/Accenture joint venture targets enterprise cloud migration | #reinvent
In a move aimed squarely at IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) linked up with Accenture PLC to form a business group to help enterprise customers move to the Amazon cloud. The alignment with Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm with a $32 billion in 2014 revenues and 336,000 employees, gives AWS ...