Gartner: BigData will transform customer relationship management technology
Big data is set to transform the way companies manage their relationships with their customers and CIOs need to start planning now, claims analyst group Gartner.
BigData is the Most-hyped Term in the Market Today, Gartner says
He said that there was always ‘dark data’ but it is only recently that open source technologies like Hadoop have enabled enterprises to mine such data. Yet, there are many challenges before big data such as software maturity, skills deficiency, securit…
Hortonworks releases its Hadoop for Windows distribution
HDP allows users to deploy Hadoop on Windows Server in their own datacenters — the same way they can already deploy HDP 1.2 on several Linux distributions. Microsoft and Hortonworks are touting HDP for Windows as offering an easy migration path to HDI…
GraphLab picks up $6.75m VC from Madrona and NEA to bolster its ‘Hadoop for graphs’
GraphLab software is already being used for millions of recommendations in popular consumer services on a daily basis, the fledgling company asserts. GraphLab-the-company wants to capitalize on the success of GraphLab-the-open-source-project by building a commercial product for applying advanced machine-learning to massive graph datasets, referring to its platform as a “Hadoop but for graphs” on a high level. The company promises to continue actively supporting the open-source project.
PwC Global 100 Software Leaders
Because enterprise customers increasingly pursue hybrid IT models, most large software vendors are likely to offer licensing and some kind of subscription model for some time to come. “If the customer wants a traditional license and wants to run it themselves on premise, then absolutely we’re happy to do it that way,” BMC’s Berryman says. “And if customers want it as a service, we can offer it that way as well.”
100 Global software leaders [ PwC Cloud ]
Emerging hybrid models bring new challenges: A range of business models, from the traditional licensed software to pure SaaS to hybrid approaches, will co-exist and face a host of challenges for the foreseeable future. Identifying the right model witho…
Amazon Cloud Gets Federal Stamp Of Approval
FedRAMP cloud security assessment, making it one of the first commercial cloud providers to be certified for no-fuss adoption across government. Amazon announced Tuesday that it has received “authority to operate,” essentially a green light to offer it…
Hadoop + [ Java NoSQL ]
A look inside Open Web, Dice’s latest sourcing tool, reveals the combination of skills hiring managers search for along with Hadoop. The number one combination by a large margin — Hadoop and Java — not too surprising given it’s a Java based framework. That’s closely followed by NoSQL at number three. According to the Dice Salary Survey, those professionals with Hadoop and NoSQL experience pulled in more than $100,000 on average.
Goodwill hunting: HP, Oracle, Cisco, Google have $90 billion
The computer and printer giant (NYSE: HPQ) recorded $31,031,000,000 worth of goodwill on its balance sheet as of Jan. 31, putting it at the top of a list of big Bay Area businesses that have grown by acquisitions.
Here Are More Details About SAP’s Surprising New Partnership With VMware
VMware would be “the first and only cloud provider” to offer SAP’s popular and pricey software on a monthly subscription plan, including SAP’s Oracle-killer HANA database. Monthly subscription pricing of its software is something that SAP doesn’t even …
