SAP Steps Up Analytics with Latest Acquisition
SAP is moving in quickly to capture its share of the analytics market, and it seems retail is a particular area of interest for the business software maker. HANA, its in-memory big data appliance,…
DevOps/CloudOps: The Emerging IT Model
By Alan Conley
Both DevOps and Cloud are high on the hype curve right now and for good reason. DevOps is popular because it promotes agility by moving application responsibility closer to the business need. Cloud, whether…
RainStor Runs Its Database Natively on Hadoop
By Klint Finley
Today RainStor announced that it is releasing a version of its database that runs natively on Apache Hadoop called RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. This will enable users to query data stored in…
Open Source “Splunk for Security” Company AlienVault Hires HP Fortify Team
By Klint Finley
Today AlienVault, the sponsor company of the open source security intelligence tool OSSIM, announced that it has hired former HP Fortify team members Barmak Meftah and Roger Thornton. Meftah, who was VP of software…
Death by Terror: Strange Big Data
The world is a mass of mystery and peculiarity, both organic and human-induced. As weird as they may seem, data virtualization can turn them into beautiful works of art, and even make better sense…
AppDynamics Gets $20M from Kleiner Perkins for App Optimization
Application performance management software vendor AppDynamics announced a Series C funding round, in which it raised $20 million from new investor Kleiner Perkins, and existing backers Greylock Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company…
Cyber-Tensions Between Saudi Arabia and Israel on the Rise as Hackers Hit Stock Exchange and Airline Websites
By Kyt Dotson
Israel is receiving lessons in cyberwarfare as hackers continue to target their corporations and infrastructure—on Monday, hackers slowed (but did not break) the website for the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and El Al Israel…
IT Salary Surges but Skills Fall Short
The current status of the western job market is what one would call “ironic.” Students are dropping out of school and graduates find it hard to secure an employment, even unpaid internships; subsequently putting…
Amazon Seeing Success on both Sides of the Kindle Aisle
Amazon released some new figures about the success of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select program, which launched in December. The retail giant says that the Kindle E-Book Lending Library now features over 75,000…
“Think Fair” – Apple Moves to Become the World’s First Fair Trade Electronics Tech Company
By Tom Foremski
For the first time, Apple has disclosed the identity of 156 suppliers, and said it will become the first tech company to join the Fair Labor Association (FLA). This means that the FLA will…