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As businesses begin to connect industrial devices to the Internet in order to capture data, mine it for value and take actions based upon those insights, the task takes on almost mind-blowing complexity. The Internet of things (IoT) is relatively simple in the …
Will flash replace disk? Join the #AllFlash CrowdChat Aug. 25
In 2008, Wikibon’s David Floyer was the first analyst to publicly predict that high speed spinning disk would give way to flash devices. He was also one of the first to predict the rise of the all-flash data center. But not everyone agrees. …
GE Predix chief architect sees IoT analytics as a game changer
Designing an analytics platform for the Internet of Things (IOT) present some big challenges that users of typical business analytics systems don’t have to confront. Devices in remote locations with slow or nonexistent connections – such as sensors on wind turbines in …
Cisco earnings show company on track to software-first strategy
Cisco Systems Inc.’s quarterly revenues fell 2 percent from a year ago, but the company slightly beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom line. But the mostly upbeat earnings report was overshadowed by an announcement that Cisco will lay off up to …
Managing clouds harder than IT leaders expect, survey says
Is this the trough of disillusionment? The tantalizing promise of cloud computing to make IT operations, simpler and cheaper may be yielding to the reality of an environment that is more complex and difficult to manage than many respondents had expected, at …
Integration vendor SnapLogic adds Hive, Teradata connectors
Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is introducing its Summer 2016 release of the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform, expanding the library of connectors it calls “Snaps,” improving security in Hadoop environments and improving performance through parallelization of ingestion and delivery services. The company, …
How GE Predix tackles the unique challenges of the industrial IoT
Much of the industrial world has been unable to capitalize on the digital revolution because data was locked up in disconnected machines or couldn’t be processed economically. The new world of connected equipment and big data analytics commonly called the Internet of …
#CUBEConversation: Entrepreneur Rubin sees ClearSkies ahead
ClearSky Data Inc. emerged from stealth almost exactly a year ago with a proposal to all but erase the distinction between on-premise and cloud storage. Its novel architecture uses co-location facilities to enable customers to fluidly move data back and forth between …
Ohio consortium gives R developers direct line to Watson
Columbus Collaboratory, a consortium of Ohio-based companies that are banding together to focus on solving knotty problems using analytics, has released an open-source extension to the R programming language that data scientists can use to access and build with IBM’s Watson artificial …
Survey finds U.S. firms overrate digital transformation success
Digital transformation may be hotter than Las Vegas in August, but there’s a disconnect between the progress companies are making toward becoming more digital and their perceptions of their own success. QuickBase Inc., a former Intuit Inc. subsidiary that makes programming tools …