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Birst Raises $26 Million To Accelerate Cloud BI Strategy

By Matt Weinberger May 2, 2012

Business intelligence provider Birst is looking to kickstart its business with a relatively rare Series D round of funding as it looks to accelerate its recent shift into offering its solution as SaaS. This…

Google: Don’t Force a Merge Between G+ and YouTube for Upvotes

By Kyt Dotson May 2, 2012

It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users…

Quanta Brings Open Data Center Solutions to US Businesses

By Matt Weinberger May 2, 2012

Quanta, a $37 billion Taiwanese data center equipment manufacturer which counts Facebook amongst its loyal customers, used this week’s Open Compute Summit in Texas to announce that it’s launching QCT, a subsidiary to market…

IBM Expands Smarter Commerce Portfolio with Tealeaf

By Maria Deutscher May 2, 2012

Big Blue is diving head first into the top three trends in the enterprise – cloud, mobile and big data. Earlier this week the company announced a string of launches that address two of…

Will Cable and Satellite Mean the Death of Free Hulu Internet TV?

By Kyt Dotson May 2, 2012

Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic…

Wipro Buys Promax to Push Big Data Services

By Maria Deutscher May 2, 2012

System integrator Wipro just acquired a company called Promax Applications, according to an announcement that went out this week. Promax is an Australian services provider founded in 1989 that started off as The Professional Assignments Group,…

Harvard and MIT Team Up to Offer Free Online Education

By Mellisa Tolentino May 2, 2012

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $60 million joint initiative to offer free, online, college-level courses known as edX. “edX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on…

HP Pitches Double Performance Increase with VMware-Virtualized 3PAR

By Maria Deutscher May 2, 2012

Hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is making something called the HP Get Virtual Guarantee Program available to global customers, promising to double VM density in environments that meet all the specified criteria. To be eligible for…

IBM Announces PureSystem Kit/PaaS, Mobile Portfolio

By Maria Deutscher May 2, 2012

Following the footsteps of rival HP, IBM unveiled the PureSystem line of so-called ‘expert integrated systems’ last month. These are hardware appliances on which users can install software-based ‘patterns of expertise’ to automate certain aspects,…

Who Was the First Data Scientist?

By Klint Finley May 2, 2012

Astronomer Tobias Mayer, born 1723, was the first data scientist John Rauser, a data scientist at Amazon.com, explained in a talk at Strata. Mayer explained the motion of the moon using spherical motion trigonometry.…

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Birst Raises $26 Million To Accelerate Cloud BI Strategy

Quanta Brings Open Data Center Solutions to US Businesses

Wipro Buys Promax to Push Big Data Services

Harvard and MIT Team Up to Offer Free Online Education

Who Was the First Data Scientist?

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