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Snowflake jumps into data analytics with cloud-based data warehouse solution

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2015

Snowflake Computing Inc., a Big Data startup led by former Microsoft man Bob Muglia, last week announced the general availability of its tool for analyzing business data in the cloud, plus a $45 million…

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New OpenDaylight Lithium release extends SDN to the Internet of Things

By Maria Deutscher Jun 29, 2015

The organizations behind the OpenDaylight Project are moving another element to the right on the periodic table this morning with the third release of their free network controller, which brings a host of new…

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What you missed in Big Data: Operational insights

By Maria Deutscher Jun 29, 2015

It sometimes seems as if the industry produces a new option for storing the vast quantities of information that organizations are ingesting every other day, and last week was no exception. Microsoft Corp. took…

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What you missed in Cloud: Hybrid alliances

By Maria Deutscher Jun 29, 2015

Partnerships are hardly a rare occurrence in the enterprise technology world, where every system and service are seemingly entwined one way or another, but the alliance between IBM Corp. and Box Inc. announced last…

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Analytics transform sales reporting at 130-year-old industrial supplier

By Paul Gillin Jun 29, 2015

When your company sells 400,000 distinct items with a half million SKUs in a configure-to-order business across 100 countries, record-keeping can be a challenge. That was the case at A. W. Chesterton Co., a…

Gartner: AWS, Google & Microsoft lead the way in cloud storage

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2015

Enterprise giants Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft have been recognized as the undisputed leaders in the cloud storage space by Gartner Inc.’s analysts. Last week, Gartner rolled out its latest Magic Quadrant…

Chinese taxi hailing app Didi Kuaidi may raise new round to $2b after $1.5b oversubscribed

By Duncan Riley Jun 29, 2015

Chinese taxi hailing app Didi Kuaidi (Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc.) looks set to increase its current funding round of $1.5 billion with news that it is already oversubscribed. The news of a possible increase in…

Uber goes continental with UberBOAT launch in Istanbul

By Mike Wheatley Jun 29, 2015

After succesfully tricking legions of Thai Uber-ites with the (fake) launch of its UberBoat service in Bangkok, Thailand, last April, Uber Inc., has actually launched a (real) boat service after all, dubbed “UberBOAT”. Uber…

Apple Music arrives June 30: Here’s what you need to know

By Collen Kriel Jun 29, 2015

Apple is releasing Apple Music at 8 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST) and 11 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST)) on Tuesday June 30, according to the music service’s senior director, Ian Rogers. To help…

iPhone 6s with Force Touch now almost a certainty

By Collen Kriel Jun 29, 2015

Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 6s in a little less than three months and, if the latest rumor is to be believed, the Cupertino giant has already started an early production run…