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Cloud

Alibaba challenges Amazon for cloud supremacy, and a lot more

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

One of the more fascinating battles in technology today is playing out between Amazon and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Surging earnings have allowed Alibaba to grow nearer to Amazon.com Inc. in market capitalization over…

Women in Tech

Fashion-tech love story still lost in translation

By Kristen Nicole Oct 27, 2017

When fashion met tech, it wasn’t love at first sight. The marriage of these two industries has been fraught with mixed signals and gimmicks, redefining the fashion-tech relationship at every turn. It’s the same…

Cloud

Private equity firm Vista acquires well-funded cloud backup startup Datto

By Maria Deutscher Oct 27, 2017

Against the backdrop of another major buyout in enterprise technology, Vista Equity Partners LLC on Thursday announced plans to acquire Datto Inc., a cloud-based data protection provider. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but…

Big Data

Trip report: At Pentaho World 2017, Hitachi Vantara refocuses data portfolio on edge analytics

By James Kobielus Oct 27, 2017

Most analytics solution providers now place open source at the heart of their go-to-market approach. But when pioneering open-source analytics vendor Pentaho was formed more than a decade ago, it was still a novel,…

Women in Tech

MilkCrate app simplifies, incentivizes sustainability for enterprises

By Kylie Anderson Oct 27, 2017

When Morgan Berman (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of MilkCrate LLC, began conceptualizing a company designed to promote sustainability and thoughtful action four years ago, she had no idea her ideation would be…

Women in Tech

Three-tiered approach to inclusion, diversity extends Snap Inc.’s talent pool

By Kylie Anderson Oct 27, 2017

Equality work is a top priority at camera company Snap Inc., especially for the company’s manager of global diversity initiatives Jarvis Sam (pictured). Sam’s diversity and inclusion efforts extend to Snap’s 3,000 employees working…

Big Data

IBM talks strategy and architecture with Boston ‘datarati’

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

IBM Corp.’s gathering of 150 chief data officers in Boston was a prime opportunity to have a frank discussion about the role and responsibility of a CDO in implementing the enterprise architecture blueprint. It’s…

Infra

Network monitoring provider Gigamon to be sold for $1.6B to activist investor

By Maria Deutscher Oct 27, 2017

Elliott Management Corp. has a long history of successfully pressuring publicly traded tech companies that it considers undervalued to seek a buyout. Rarely, however, does the activist hedge fund play the role of acquirer.…

Emerging Tech

Artificial intelligence’s long, hard trek to easy interfaces for complex tech

By R. Danes Oct 27, 2017

Artificial intelligence is a big deal at the moment, no pun intended. So far this year, venture capitalists have invested $7.6 billion in artificial intelligence tech, according to PitchBook Data. That is close to…

Big Data

Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition lined it up to pursue trillion-dollar market, says analysts

By Mark Albertson Oct 27, 2017

When Hitachi Data Systems Corp., or HDS, acquired data analytics firm Pentaho Corp. for a rumored $500 million two years ago, it marked yet another step in Hitachi’s business model transformation. What was once known as…

explore news

Fashion-tech love story still lost in translation

Private equity firm Vista acquires well-funded cloud backup startup Datto

Trip report: At Pentaho World 2017, Hitachi Vantara refocuses data portfolio on edge analytics

MilkCrate app simplifies, incentivizes sustainability for enterprises

Three-tiered approach to inclusion, diversity extends Snap Inc.’s talent pool

IBM talks strategy and architecture with Boston ‘datarati’

Network monitoring provider Gigamon to be sold for $1.6B to activist investor

Artificial intelligence’s long, hard trek to easy interfaces for complex tech

Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition lined it up to pursue trillion-dollar market, says analysts

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