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Big data has turned the corner; here’s what happens next | #CUBEconversations
For the past four years, big data consultancy NewVantage Partners LLC has surveyed a group of executives at large enterprises to determine their strategies surrounding big data. This year’s survey confirms that big data has turned the corner. In fact, 62.5 percent of firms reported that they now have at least one instance of big ...
Hadoop creator buoyant despite framework’s complexity woes
When Doug Cutting created the open-source Hadoop framework while working at Yahoo! Inc. in 2006, he didn’t imagine his invention would spawn an ecosystem of breathtaking scope and complexity. The dozens of projects that have sprung up to extend and enhance the core framework have brought big data to the mass market, in the process ...
IBM, Catalogic team up to automate storage provisioning
One unintended consequence of the popularity of cloud computing is that it has cast a harsh spotlight on the inability of many enterprise data centers to match the automated convenience of the public cloud. IBM and Catalogic Software Inc. are hoping to make a dent in that perception by teaming up to apply Catalogic’s ECX ...
Netronome takes the overhead out of network virtualization
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) offer some pretty compelling price/performance advantages, but they harbor a dirty little secret: Virtualization and software overhead can eat up 80 percent of hardware capacity. That cuts into cost savings but, more importantly, increases complexity as IT organizations have to layer on additional servers to match the ...
HotLink bids to lower the cost of disaster recovery
HotLink Corp. today is announcing a new disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide data protection and business resiliency at a price point it thinks midsize businesses will like. The new offering combines the company’s disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity software with managed services and cloud delivery on a turnkey basis ...
Study finds data quality problems plague N. American companies
A new report paints a pretty dismal picture of the state of data quality in North American enterprises, even as data increasingly becomes a critical strategic asset. The State of Enterprise Data Quality: 2016 report, which was prepared by 451 Research LLC and commissioned by Blazent Inc. found that just 40 percent of C-level executives ...
Jitterbit reels in $20M to boost API management platform
In another sign of the growing popularity of the so-called API economy, enterprise integration vendor Jitterbit Inc. raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by the global investment firm KKR & Co. L.P. The cash injection comes on top of an earlier $5 million round raised two years ago from partners that ...
Dassault’s modest proposal: Change the way we make everything
The biggest software company you’ve never heard of has set an ambitious goal: It literally wants to transform the way we design and build everything. Dassault Systèmes will probably get a hearing from its customers. The $2.3 billion Paris-based maker of 3D design, 3D digital mock-up and product lifecycle management (PLM) software is little-known outside ...
MariaDB raises $9 million and hires two key executives
MariaDB Corp. said it raised $9 million from investors that include Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures, hired Silicon Valley veteran Michael Howard as CEO and brought the developer of its namesake relational database on board as full-time CTO. Created by the developers of MySQL after Oracle acquired that software in its purchase of Sun ...
Survey finds Fortune 500 CEOs still avoiding social media
Only 39% of Fortune 500 CEOs have any social media presence at all – and that’s the good news. A new study sponsored by Domo and CEO.com has found that top executives at America’s largest firms continue to be slow to adopt the tools that in some cases are being aggressively used by their own ...