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IBM buys India’s Sanovi to bolster hybrid cloud capabilities
The growing popularity of hybrid cloud tools has not gone unnoticed by IBM Corp.’s top brass. The company today signed an agreement to buy Sanovi Technologies Pvt Ltd., a Bangalore-based firm that sells software for backing up on-premise workloads to and from the cloud. Its flagship Enterprise DR Management platform lets administrators manage recovery procedures through ...
Google unveils new Material Design toolkit for app designers
After taking the developer community by storm with its Go language and open-source projects such as Kubernetes, Google Inc. is setting its sights on another key segment of the technology world: application designers. As part of its push, the search giant has unveiled a set of homegrown user interface tools that aim to streamline the visual ...
CoreOS launches technical preview of OpenStack deployment tool
Setting up an OpenStack cluster can take weeks or even months of work, but CoreOS Inc. claims that the task can now be completed in under 15 minutes. This speedup is made possible by Stackanetes, an open-source deployment tool that the startup has developed in collaboration with Intel Corp. and launched into technical preview today. It ...
IBM and Slack team up to build smarter chatbots with Watson
Chatbots could become much more useful for knowledge workers if IBM Corp. and Slack Inc. have their way. Against the backdrop of its annual World of Watson summit in Las Vegas this week, Big Blue has struck a partnership with the communications startup to develop new artificial intelligence capabilities for Slack’s messaging platform. Their first ...
IBM augments Watson to better understand humans and data
IBM Corp. today unveiled a new analytics platform and a tool to create virtual agents more easily, both based on its famous Jeopardy!-winning Watson “cognitive” computing system. The company introduced the new services at its second annual World of Watson conference in Las Vegas, which opened today. IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty is betting much ...
Salesforce.com backs French sharing startup OpenDataSoft with $5.4M
Turning raw data into useful information is only half the business intelligence journey. Analytics teams must also share the results with their users on time and in an easily understandable format, which is much easier said than done when it comes to complex business or operational metrics. As a result, organizations are turning to providers ...
Dataiku raises $14M to help business and data pros collaborate better
Even with all the collaboration tools that are available to companies these days, coordinating the different personnel who take part in a large-scale analytics project can still be difficult. One of the startups working to ease the task is the New York-based Dataiku Inc., which raised $14 million in funding today from a group of ...
451 Research: OpenStack market will hit $5B by 2020
Six years after its initial release, the open-source cloud computing platform OpenStack continues to gain steam. A new report from 451 Research predicts that the companies working to commercialize the project will generate total revenues of $1.8 billion this year, $2.5 billion in 2017 and north of $5 billion annually by the end of the decade. ...
Khosla-backed Chain opens up its blockchain to developers
Yet another proprietary blockchain architecture is going open-source. Chain Inc., a two-year-old startup backed up by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and several other financial institutions, today released its distributed ledger on GitHub under a free license. The move comes just days after another blockchain developer called R3CEV LLC announced plans to contribute the ...
What you missed in big data: an integrated approach
The growing influence of data on decision-making in the enterprise is turning analytics into a key focus area even for vendors that have historically made most of their revenue elsewhere. Last week, Dell Technologies Inc. joined the fray by introducing a new number-crunching platform that promises to help organizations make better use of internal information. ...