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Analyst says early adopters love their Oracle T7 servers

By Bert Latamore Sep 26, 2016

The Oracle T7 server with M7 technology baked in is a good deal for heavy Oracle users, providing much higher performance at a significantly lower cost than the T5 generation, writes Wikibon CTO David…

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Pentaho doubles down on Hadoop and Spark

By Maria Deutscher Sep 26, 2016

Large-scale analytics projects tend to incorporate numerous different components that must work seamlessly with one another for the combined whole to operate smoothly. As a result, data management vendors place a big emphasis on…

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Podium Data raises $9.5M to make Hadoop-based data lakes a reality

By Maria Deutscher Sep 26, 2016

Consolidating an organization’s disparate data management systems into one centralized repository can theoretically ease processing, but the approach has proven difficult to implement in practice. One of the vendors trying to remedy the situation…

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What you missed in Big Data: AI continues to gain momentum

By Maria Deutscher Sep 26, 2016

Artificial intelligence technology is finding its way to every corner of the modern enterprise. Last week Google set out to help organizations embrace the trend faster by acquiring a startup called API.AI Inc. that…

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What you missed in Cloud: Big plans and deep pockets

By Maria Deutscher Sep 26, 2016

Traditional information technology vendors are investing heavily to try and address the growing adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. Last week, Oracle Corp. stepped up its efforts by launching a new iteration of…

Snapchat’s upcoming Spectacles video glasses: cool or lame?

By Duncan Riley Sep 26, 2016

In case you missed the news over the weekend, the company formerly known as Snapchat Inc., now simply known as Snap Inc., has entered the hardware game with a new pair of connected sunglasses by…

Sex cam site uses facial recognition to help people find a ‘model’ that looks like someone they know

By James Farrell Sep 26, 2016

Imagine this: There’s a friend of yours you’ve had a crush on for some time but kept it a secret, or perhaps even a Facebook acquaintance you fancy. Sex cam site MegaCams wants to make…

Ripple signs deal with banks to enable blockchain-based global money transfers

By Duncan Riley Sep 26, 2016

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may finally have some competition with a number of major global banks signing on with Ripple Labs Inc. to found a new group that will support…

Happy days for IPOs: Apptio shares surge on Nasdaq debut

By Duncan Riley Sep 26, 2016

The drought in successful tech initial public offerings (IPOs) may be officially over as shares in cloud information technology management software firm Apptio Inc. surged on their debut Friday on the Nasdaq exchange. Shares…

Businesses like the Internet of Things, but they’re not doing it right

By Mike Wheatley Sep 25, 2016

More than half of all enterprises believe the Internet of Things (IoT) is strategic to their business, but most are still taking a lax approach to security. The findings, from an International Data Corp.…