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Survey finds enterprises gearing up for IoT on a grand scale
The Internet of Things may still be on the launchpad at many organizations, but that isn’t stopping them from preparing for blastoff. New data from 451 Research LLC reveals that 71 percent of nearly 1,000 enterprises surveyed are gathering data for IoT initiatives today. That’s up 3 percent from the previous quarter. The dollars are ...
How the Internet of Things slashed one fleet owner’s accident costs
The Internet of Things may still be mostly in incubation, but in some industries it’s already mainstream. One of those is vehicle fleet management. Operators have been using telematics and computerized engine diagnostics for years to squeeze more life out of cars and trucks while improving efficiency through route and schedule optimization. Now the same ...
Elastic infrastructure won’t meet digital business demands; think ‘plastic’ instead, analyst says
As information technology organizations are increasingly called upon to contribute to the bottom line through digital business, underlying infrastructure must evolve from one that supports known workloads to one that can handle unpredictable workloads reliably and at scale. That’s the conclusion of Wikibon Research Director Peter Burris (right) in a new research brief. The full ...
Predictions 2017: Trump ♥️ tech, containers take over, Microsoft buys Red Hat
As if 2016 weren’t volatile enough for the technology industry, the coming year is likely to be even more, shall we say, interesting, thanks to everything from a very unpredictable new U.S. president to a confluence of major trends ranging from artificial intelligence to virtual reality to the continued rise of the cloud. This is ...
Anomaly detection keeps ad network humming during busy holiday season
The holiday season is a peak time for e-commerce transactions, but also for the advertising that fuels them. Downtime or slowdowns can be disastrous for companies trying to put forth the latest promotions through online advertising, but the complexity of ad networks makes pinpointing the cause of anomalies difficult. The Rubicon Project Inc. is one ...
Segment adds Google BigQuery to lineup of supported cloud data warehouses
Data collection and integration company Segment.io Inc. has added Google’s BigQuery to its lineup of data warehousing platforms, joining Postgres and Amazon Web Services’ Redshift. The company said the addition of BigQuery as a processing engine gives customers an important new option for conducting analytics using the SQL query language. “You don’t have to build ...
Postman Pro automates API testing for development teams
Having recently scored $7 million in venture financing to develop its software for building, testing and documenting application programming interfaces, Postdot Technologies Inc. is wasting no time in announcing a major update to its Postman product. Called Postman Cloud during its beta test phase, the released product has been renamed Postman Pro to reflect its ...
25-year-old software firm you’ve never heard of stakes future on hyper-convergence – and Boston
Most information technology startups that come into the U.S. market head by default for Silicon Valley, so Comtrade Software turned some heads this fall when it chose to plant its flag in Boston. But to hear Simon Taylor – Comtrade Software’s 37-year-old president – tell it, the decision made practical sense. Comtrade’s headquarters and most of ...
Conversica lands $34M to bring AI to sales lead nurturing
Artificial intelligence-based sales automation company Conversica Inc. today said it has raised $34 million in a Series B funding round to tackle one of the most common problems sales organizations face: lack of follow-up. The company has built an automated agent that attends to much of the basic blocking and tackling of following up with a prospective ...
New survey reveals a surge in cloud-first adoption strategies
If there are any remaining doubts that the cloud has gone mainstream, new research by a consortium of 53 companies led by North Bridge Growth Equity and Venture Partners and the research firm Wikibon should put them to rest. The sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing survey of 1,351 organizations across the globe finds that ...