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The Overwatch beta will return in February with a new game mode

By Eric David Jan 21, 2016

The closed beta for Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated team-based shooter, Overwatch, will finally be returning in “mid-February,” and Blizzard says that it has plenty of new content to show for its months-long hiatus. Blizzard admitted…

SimpliVity finds a new market in hyper-convergence | #VTUG

By Nelson Williams Jan 21, 2016

Tighter integration of tech processes has been a major cause of change in the technology business landscape, leading to the practice of hyper-convergence. Under the hyper-convergence model, compute, storage, networking and other technologies are packaged…

Getting rid of ‘dirty data’: Creating a new paradigm in data analytics | #RMWisdom16

By Tim Hawkins Jan 21, 2016

Financial institutions of all kinds have an essential need for clean, accurate data when making business predictions and decisions regarding their customers. Bob Lytle, CEO of Rel8ed, sat down with Dave Vellante and Jeff…

Banner Saga dev: Don’t rely on a game engine unless you have the source code

By Eric David Jan 21, 2016

Porting software from one platform to another can be incredibly difficult, and video games are no different. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Stoic Studios co-founder John Watson talked about the difficulty his team faced…

ReactiveOps eases the AWS transition | #VTUG

By Heather Johnson Jan 21, 2016

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets customers provision a section of the AWS Cloud to launch AWS resources in a virtual network. ReactiveOps, Inc. helps customers make the transition from colocation data center…

Chasing the DevOps moving target | #VTUG

By Nelson Williams Jan 21, 2016

In the tech world, DevOps is a strange thing. It’s vital to companies that want to keep up with the competition, yet, no one really knows what DevOps is for sure. To one company…

The journey to predictive analytics ‘nirvana’ | #RMWisdom16

By Marlene Den Bleyker Jan 21, 2016

Hortonworks, Inc., one of the leading providers of open-source solutions, is partnering with banks to help improve the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework and ecosystem. These partnerships are driving Hadoop to be a true…

MariaDB raises $9 million and hires two key executives

By Paul Gillin Jan 21, 2016

MariaDB Corp. said it raised $9 million from investors that include Intel Capital and California Technology Ventures, hired Silicon Valley veteran Michael Howard as CEO and brought the developer of its namesake relational database…

VTUG sets its sights on user engagement | #VTUG

By Gabriel Pesek Jan 21, 2016

As Boston and other New England cities continue to draw attention from IT-centric businesses seeking to capitalize on employment and innovation opportunities, the Virtualization Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer 2016, hosted by VTUG,…

Siemens IT audit wields analytical weaponry | #RMWisdom16

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Jan 21, 2016

You wouldn’t normally think of predictive analytics as the domain of an IT audit department, but Siemens AG is taking the opinion out of audit discussions and using an analytical approach that allows its…