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Neo claims big performance gains in update of top-ranked graph database
Neo Technology, Inc. is taking steps to move its Neo4J graph database into the real-time analytics world with updates that significantly improve read and write performance and the addition of a cost-based optimizer to improve query performance. Neo4J, which is the world’s most popular graph database, according to DB-Engines Ranking, gets a new in-memory page ...
BigDataNYC debate: Are Hadoop upstarts the future or road kill?
Big Data analytics is going to change business as we know it, but there’s no guarantee that the companies that dominate the market today will be around to take a victory lap. That was a consensus of a Wikibon Capital Markets panel at the BigDataNYC 2014 conference last October, in which a tech entrepreneur, a ...
Humana eyes APIs as key tools for revolutionizing health care
If you think application program interfaces (APIs) are just a tool for geeky software developers, think again. In the age of Big Data and mobility, every company is potentially an information provider, and APIs provide a secure and relatively simple way to selectively expose data and programs. They’re one tool that Humana, Inc., the $48 ...
No silver linings in GigaOm’s demise
The failure of a business is sometimes cause for jubilation at that company’s competitors, but I didn’t detect much glee in the reaction of my SiliconANGLE colleagues this week to the sudden shutdown of the technology news site GigaOm. Rather, there was sadness that a media company that championed respect for its readers and that ...
John Sculley on customers, disruption and the fight with Steve Jobs
At 14, John Sculley invented a color picture tube and channel changer that almost were licensed by a major TV manufacturer. His college major wasn’t business but architecture. His career took him to Pepsi-Cola Co., however, where he rose through the ranks to become its youngest CEO. During his tenure, Pepsi innovated with two huge ...
SignalFx exits stealth with a whole new approach to application monitoring
Asserting that application monitoring technology designed for the age of monolithic computers hasn’t kept pace with today’s highly containerized and distributed environments, SignalFx (formerly SignalFuse) is emerging from stealth today with a fresh $28.5 million funding round and technology that it says approaches monitoring from a radically new perspective. The Silicon Valley company, whose co-founders hail ...
SugarCRM buys sales rep productivity tech with Stitch acquisition
In a talent grab that also takes a dig at rival CRM software provider Salesforce.com, Inc. SugarCRM, Inc. has snatched up the intellectual property and other assets of Hothouse Labs, Inc. the San Francisco-based maker of the Stitch mobile app. SugarCRM also hired eight employees of the developer and promptly discontinued the app, which runs on the Salesforce.com platform. ...
Wikibon view: ODP clarifies choices in chaotic Hadoop market
Industry consortia have a mixed track record in computer industry history. At their best, they create standards the market can rally around, thereby simplifying user decision making (think W3C). At their worst, they foster bickering and divisiveness that shoves innovation into a corner. So we approached the announcement of the Open Data Platform (ODP) two ...
Syncsort acquires William Data to boost mainframe-Splunk integration
Syncsort, Inc., one of the most durable independent software vendors, has acquired U.K.-based William Data Systems as part of its campaign to help enterprise mainframe users leverage the power of modern Big Data technologies to make more efficient use of their big machines. William Data makes network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z/OS ...
SolidFire fills in mid-tier product line and unbundles its storage OS
Coming off a year in which it claims enterprise sales grew by nearly 600%, SolidFire, Inc. is introducing its latest all-flash array, citing forward-compatibility guarantees and flexible deployment options as incentives. The company is also unbundling its Element OS storage operating system for licensing by vendors building hyper-scale computing systems. The five-year-old startup, which has ...