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Guest post – Death of a cloud provider – 5 practical ways to avoid becoming a SaaS refugee

August 11, 2014

Business

Big data, Business, Chief information officer, cloud computing, JSON, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, Springpad

A guest post from Paul Muller – Paul Muller leads global strategic marketing within the Software business at HP responsible for building awareness and implementation of best practices across all elements of the IT value chain as well as…

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Perhaps The Worst Press Release Of All Time?

May 27, 2014

Business

Big data, Business, Business Services, Buzzword, Customer Management, IBM, Internet of Things, monetization

I see some pretty bad press releases, but recently I saw what is perhaps the worst ever. 400 words in and I actually had no idea what the hell this company does. I’ve edited out the name of the…

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ScaleOut Brings Real-Time Analysis to Map Reduce

October 1, 2013

Business

Apache Hadoop, Big data, Database, Hadoop, Hardware, Java, MapReduce, ScaleOut

ScaleOut Software is a company producing memory-based storage and analysis products. Today the company is announcing general availability of its hServer V2 product which allows MapReduce to be run on live data. The product has a self-contained execution engine…

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Sumo Logic Introduces Anomaly Detection and a Taste of Learning Systems to Come

September 11, 2013

Business

Anomaly Detection, Big data, cloud computing, Information technology management, intuit, Kumar Saurabh, Sumo Logic, Wall Street Journal

This week sees some interesting news from log management and analytics vendor Sumo Logic that points to the future of IT intelligence systems in particular and, more generally,the future of a world of connected devices and closed loop intelligence.…

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Joyent’s Manta – A Solution for Data’s Gravity?

June 25, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Big data, Computer data storage, Dynamic random-access memory, Gigabyte, Jason Hoffman, Joyent, Manta

My friend, cloud thought leader and all-around nice guy Dave McCrory has, over the past couple of years been espousing his view on Data Gravity and the impact it has upon the way organizations work. It’s well worth having…

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EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

May 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Business intelligence, Crunchbase, Databases, Equinix, intacct, Netflix, Sales

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…

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Infer Raises $10 Million; Helps Companies Use Data to Win More Customers

April 23, 2013

Business

Big data, Business, google, Microsoft, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill Ventures, Vik Singh, yahoo

Every time we hear about a new company harvesting big data to deliver valuable insights a kitten somewhere dies. Big data, and its related buzzwords, are apparent at every turn. But beyond the over-hyping, there is some real value…

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GreenButton Now Supports OpenStack

April 16, 2013

Business

Big data, Chief technology officer, cloud computing, greenbutton, OpenStack, Portland Oregon, vCloud, Wellington

I’ve written before about GreenButton, the awesome company (awesome for reasons other than the fact that they hail from my home town of Wellington, new Zealand, although that helps immensely) vendor of cross-vendor high performance compute cloud platform. I…

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Cisco Announces The Big Data Cloud Software Defined Internet of Things

April 3, 2013

Business

Big data, cisco, Cisco Systems, Data Communications, Lew Tucker, Manufacturers, Software Defined Networking, Vendors

You read it here first, this morning Lew Tucker from Cisco will take the stage and industry rumors are that he’ll be announcing what is likely to be the big IT trend over the next decade or so. The…

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Continuity Rolls Out Public Beta of its Big Data PaaS

February 28, 2013

Business

Application programming interface, Big data, cloudcomputing, Continuuity, DevOps, Facebook, platform services, Todd Papaioannou

When Continuuity launched late last year I was pretty skeptical given the buzzword heavy press release, light on any real specifics. After spending some time talking with the founders however I was more positive, and not only because of…

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