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SIOS Technology Corp. is doubling down on its new discipline of performance analytics with version 3.3 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software and promises to deliver updates every four to six weeks. The company, which started as a maker of clustering …
If you think white-box hardware is cheaper, read this Wikibon report
“White box” appliances have been all the rage recently as users have sought to separate the functionality of software from underlying hardware. Makers of integrated appliances inflate hardware costs in an effort to squeeze more out of customers who are locked in …
Managed cloud storage ends self-support headaches for online learning provider
For all the compelling cost and customization benefits that open source software promises, sometimes it’s easier just to hand the task off to someone else. That’s the decision online learning platform provider Moonami, LLC made recently when it opted to move 10 …
Ask a Wikibon analyst: Is Amazon unstoppable in the cloud?
On the heels of a blitzkrieg of new product announcements and third-quarter earnings that blew away estimates, some people are asking if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is destined to become the Microsoft of the cloud. Not likely, said veteran cloud watcher and …
ClearSky banks $27M to build out hybrid storage network
With the Dell Computer Inc. – EMC merger distracting two of the storage industry’s largest players, ClearSky Data Inc. thinks the time is right to tell enterprise customers that it has a better way to store and manage data. The company, which …
IBM to buy Weather Company, launch IoT Watson business unit
IBM is getting into the weather forecasting business and, at least for the short term, becoming a big customer of Amazon Web Services. In a $2 billion deal that grew out of a partnership announced this summer, IBM said it will acquire The …
VMware’s Patel: Virtustream will be a top-five cloud service provider
EMC and VMware Inc. last week joined forces to combine their respective cloud capabilities with those of Virtustream Inc., the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this year. The companies said the move is …
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Does the Dell-EMC deal make sense?
“It’s the end of an era for storage,” declared Wikibon Analyst Stu Miniman (@stu, right), summing up the symbolic impact of Dell Inc.’s planned acquisition of storage giant EMC. As a former EMCer himself, Miniman has some special insight on what made …
Teradata sucks up IoT data, tightens Hadoop embrace
Teradata Corp. kicked off its annual user conference this week with a series of announcements that move its big data platform into the emerging world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and tighten its embrace of the Hadoop platform. The company’s first …
GoodData makes analytics distribution personal
In a rollout billed as a “partial re-positioning of the company,” analytics maker GoodData Corp. today rolled out an analytics distribution platform that makes it possible for data owners to distribute information from their own warehouses on a personalized basis to individuals, …