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Rumors Surface That HP Is Acquiring Box

March 5, 2014

Business

Aaron Levie, autonomy, hewlett packard, Lars Dalgaard, Leo Apotheker, Meg Whitman, OpenStack, SuccessFactors

Note – Despite contacting both HP and Box, neither company would comment on acquisition rumors. Last night I wrote about the rumor circulating on anonymous application Secret that cloud file sharing vendor Box had cancelled its planned (but never…

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It’s Amazing What Smarts Can Do–HP Express Query Astounds Discover Audience

December 19, 2012

Business

autonomy, Electronic discovery, File system, Hardware, hewlett packard, HP Labs, StoreAll, Unstructured data

Warning – People know me as a cloud guy, it’s unusual for me to get excited by hardware, but there’s something in this story that goes beyond simple hardware but instead delivers on Marc Andreeson’s now famous proclamation that…

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HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges

December 14, 2012

Business

autonomy, Frankfurt, hewlett packard, Meg Whitman, Microsoft, Vertica

I recently spent three days in Frankfurt attending HP’s European event, Discover. (Disclosure – HP contributed towards T&E for the event). Obviously the event was always going to be fascinating, coming as it did only a week or two…

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Big Data Analytics–On Structured and Unstructured

June 22, 2012

Business

Apache Hadoop, autonomy, BigData, Data analysis, HP Discover, linkedin, Michael Stonebraker, Unstructured data, Vertica

Analysis of unstructured data is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights from crunching vast pools of seemingly random numbers to determine patterns and trends. While…

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Blog Archives

Rumors Surface That HP Is Acquiring Box

It’s Amazing What Smarts Can Do–HP Express Query Astounds Discover Audience

HP Discover–Awesome Potential But Massive Challenges

Big Data Analytics–On Structured and Unstructured