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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 ...
Mendix broadly expands model-driven development platform
Mendix, Inc. announced version 6 of its rapid application development platform, adding support for offline functionality in mobile applications, an model application program interface (API) and open-source software development kit (SDK) with enhanced import and export capability for application models. Mendix is a model-driven development platform, meeting that users build applications by modeling flows and ...
Digital transformation becoming a board-room issue, PwC study says
The seventh annual Global Digital IQ Survey from Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLC US (PwC) is out, and the news isn’t great for CIOs, at least on the surface. The survey of 2,000 executives in 51 countries found that 68 percent of digital spending is now coming from budgets outside of the IT organization, up dramatically from ...
Puppet Labs now models infrastructure from the application out
Puppet Labs, Inc., which has ridden the surging popularity of the DevOps and IT automation crazes to a revenue run rate of over $75 million and IPO plans next spring, is upping its enterprise game with a new way to help organizations orchestrate the deployment and management of business-critical infrastructure and applications. The developer of ...
BMC’s Beauchamp says digital transformation is on course
BMC Software, Inc. went private two years ago as the winds of change were buffeting vendors in the systems management realm. The 35-year-old maker of service management, data center automation, performance management, virtualization lifecycle management and cloud computing management software hasn’t faded quietly into the night, however. Under the leadership of Robert Beauchamp, it has ...
MapR add JSON support to flagship NoSQL database
Looking to extend the scope of its high-performance Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today is announcing the addition of native JSON support to its NoSQL database. JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format that is commonly used to represent simple data structures and objects. It is widely used in Web browser-based ...
Scott McNealy’s new venture raises $15.4M
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy’s re-entry to the computer industry is drawing some serious interest from vendors as a handful of well-heeled industry veterans have just poured $15.4 million into Wayin, the real-time social marketing company he now heads. In addition to McNealy himself, investors in this latest round include David Duffield, founder of ...
Control hybrid clouds before they control you, experts advise
The tone for today’s Hybrid Cloud Summit in Cambridge Massachusetts was summed up by Bruce Richardson, chief enterprise strategist at Salesforce.com Inc. “We’re a pure public cloud vendor, so I was wondering why I was asked to speak on the topic of hybrid cloud,” he told the audience during a panel session. “Then I realized ...
Omniata wants to unify all your data silos
Venture-backed data analytics firm Omniata Inc. is bringing it namesake data analytics platform out of beta test today with claims that it can integrate data from nearly any source to provide analytics in near real time. Founded by gaming industry veterans, Omniata is tuned to deliver the kind of rapid insights that game makers used ...
Wikibon analyst sees urgent need to simplify Hadoop ecosystem
What do Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, Hortonworks Dataflow, Samza, Data Torrent, and Storm have in common? They can all be used to deliver data in batch or streaming modes to Hadoop clusters. The difficulty for enterprise IT organizations is deciding which ones to use, not to mention finding the skills necessary to operate ...
