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Your guide to international Big Data universities: IBM edition
The Big Data market is expected to grow to $28.5 billion by the end of 2014 and to top $50 billion by 2017, according to a recent Wikibon report. With the growing market comes millions of new Big Data and Analytics jobs that are being created across the globe. But the amount of new jobs ...
What’s next in wake of newly announced Apple-IBM partnership
Apple and IBM yesterday announced an exclusive partnership aimed at bringing IBM’s Big Data and analytics software to iPhones and iPads used by employees in the enterprise. As part of the deal, Apple will service IBM’s software as well as the iPhones and iPads, while IBM will provide more than 100 industry-specific enterprise software programs ...
Red Hat adds erasure coding, cache tiering to Inktank Ceph Enterprise open-source storage solution
Open source software solution provider Red Hat today announced that it has added erasure coding and cache tiering to Inktank Ceph Enterprise, the open software-defined storage clustering software that Red Hat acquired in May with its $175 million acquisition of startup Inktank. Inktank was launched in 2012 by the developers behind the Ceph software-defined storage component ...
Microsoft shifts focus to cloud and mobile, plans biggest layoff in company history
Microsoft is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, Bloomberg reported today. The reduction of thousands of jobs may end up being the biggest restructuring in Microsoft history as the company looks to integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, as well as shift Microsoft’s focus to mobile devices, cloud computing and productivity software. ...
Chip wars are back: IBM invests $3B to improve chips in cloud and Big Data systems
Cloud and Big Data applications are challenging today’s systems, and the underlying chip technology is facing significant physical scaling limits as well. According to IBM, these challenges include bandwidth to memory, high-speed communication and device power consumption. To address these challenges, IBM today announced it is investing $3 billion over the next five years into two ...
In Big Data this week: booming Spark support, acquisitions + more
This week’s Big Data roundup features acquisitions by Twitter and WANdisco, plus Databricks’ announcement of a new platform, funding and SAP partnership. Twitter acquires TapCommerce . Twitter on Monday announced it will acquire TapCommerce, a mobile retargeting and re-engagement advertising provider. TapCommerce enables real-time, programmatic mobile ad buying across multiple exchanges that TapCommerce claims reach ...
IBM expands SoftLayer into London with new data center
IBM yesterday announced that it will open a new SoftLayer data center in London this month as part of the $1.2B the company is plowing into its SoftLayer Cloud Services infrastructure this year. IBM ultimately plans to add 40 data centers across five continents. SoftLayer’s new London data center will house more than 15,000 physical ...
IBM moves more of its Big Data portfolio to the cloud
IBM strengthened its Big Data portfolio with yesterday’s announcement of IBM Navigator on Cloud, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that is the latest in a line of Big Data and Analytics services that IBM is taking to the cloud. Built on Softlayer’s cloud platform and now available on the IBM Cloud marketplace, IBM Navigator on ...
Skill sets today’s data scientists need to succeed | #HadoopSummit2014
Thousands of new data jobs will be created in the next couple of years, making “data scientist” one of the hottest emerging job titles. New data jobs will center on “analytics, data architects, data scientists [and] data modelers,” according to Inhi Cho Suh, Vice President and General Manager of Big Data, Integration & Governance at ...
Oracle extends cloud portfolio with $5.3B Micros Systems acquisition
Database giant Oracle today announced it will acquire hospitality and retail technology vendor MICROS Systems in a $5.3 billion deal aimed at bolstering Oracle’s enterprise cloud portfolio. Expected to close in the second half of 2014, the MICROS System deal will mark Oracle’s largest acquisition since its $7.4 billion swoop for Sun Microsystems back in ...