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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Violin Memory says throw out those disks with its new all-flash arrays
Violin Memory, Inc. is rolling out two new all-flash arrays, pitching them as the first flash storage systems that can run primary workloads at less than the cost of traditional disk. The company is also releasing an overhauled version of its Concerto …