Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship management and, in the case of one SaaS provider, Open Source software, play a critical role in helping regional and national restaurant brands create the ties ...Full article
The steady enterprise shift to open source software and hardware is expanding to datacenter networking via a collaboration between Facebook and networking partners as part of an effort to promote an optical switch architecture designed by the social media giant to handle more data-intensive workloads. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and interconnect specialist Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) said ...Full article
The McKinsey Global Institute cited interoperability as the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) being a $7T market and a $11.1T market by 2025. The more devices we are able to connect, the more powerful our data and insights will be, but in order to unlock the potential of IoT, the industry must first ...Full article
Microsoft Corp. launched an open source initiative aimed at forging future hyperscale cloud hardware designs and a development template for open datacenter servers. However, its power specifications differ from other members of the Open Compute Project (OCP). The company (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a datacenter server effort this week called Project Olympus in conjunction with OCP. ...Full article
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode this week with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning acceleration solutions, including a PCIe card that plugs directly into a server’s bus. The company says the combination of its development framework, called Poplar, and its ...Full article
As application containers move steadily to production, vendors are stressing the ability to securely transfer workloads across multiple clouds while at the same time managing both cloud-native and legacy applications. That pitch in addition to expanded integration features with leading public cloud container services is being made this week by container management platform specialist Apcera ...Full article
CenturyLink Inc., which has struggled to gain traction in the cutthroat public cloud market, continued its shift away from datacenters toward delivering more Internet traffic for businesses with a $34 billion deal to acquire Level 3 Communications. The companies announced the cash and stock deal on Monday (Oct. 31). The acquisition creates a stronger competitor ...Full article
Before even addressing the devilish complexity of CCAR simulations, the first problem financial services industry (FSI) firms must solve is finding the compute capacity to run resource hogging CCAR workloads. These are monster jobs run only once a year, placing hugely uneven demands on data centers, requiring more capacity than most FSI companies have on ...Full article
As enterprises seek ways to nail down IT security for a growing list of open-source infrastructure distributions, the security sector is moving toward critical mass with an increasing number of acquisitions. This week's deal between software license optimization vendor Flexera Software and security and compliance specialist Palamida Inc. was followed by the acquisition of an ...Full article
In the largest deal in the history of the chip industry, wireless industry giant Qualcomm will acquire semiconductor maker NXP Semiconductors in a deal valued at $47B, according to Qualcomm. In NXP, Qualcomm is acquiring technology and expertise in mixed-signal semiconductor electronics with major implications for emerging IoT markets. NXP has more than 25,000 customers ...Full article
In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the first OpenPOWER Summit Europe being held this week at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The shotgun release of so many efforts, argue IBM and OpenPOWER, demonstrates the ...Full article
Seeking to spot potential security vulnerabilities in systems that increasingly rely on open source software, software license optimization vendor Flexera Software has acquired a specialist in identifying potentially vulnerable software components. Flexera, Itasca, Ill., said Thursday (Oct. 27) it is acquiring San Francisco-based Palamida Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal represents ...Full article
Based on the assumption that cloud adopters will use multiple platforms from multiple vendors, a growing number of OpenStack vendors have been targeting interoperability across different clouds to boost flexibility as well as cloud security. Hence, the meshing of different OpenStack distributions was a key topic for cloud vendors during an industry summit this week ...Full article
Recently I had an interesting exchange about the rise of artificial intelligence and its implications. The discussion was centered around Google's AI-fueled AlphaGo program, which trounced Lee Sedol, the world's best player of the strategic game of Go. Since AI can now dominate Go, can we extrapolate that algorithms will be able to make critical ...Full article
Cloud-native application development is among the drivers of OpenStack production deployments, which more than doubled over the last year, according to a new vendor survey. The survey results released this week by OpenStack leader Red Hat Inc. found that 43 percent of those polled last month said they have deployed the cloud platform in production, ...Full article
As more companies are moving applications and other workloads to the cloud, the market for cloud-based data analytics appears to be gaining momentum as cloud infrastructure vendors invest in application monitoring services. Among the emerging cloud monitoring services attracting investors is Wavefront, an analytics tool vendor that helps software-as-a-service vendors boost their DevOps functions. The ...Full article
The cloud industry is evolving – a point that is made abundantly clear by the scope of industry investments being made today. In the early days of cloud, investments went toward companies that were working to create acceptable usable cloud experiences for users. These companies were focused on fundamentals, such as cloud security and cloud ...Full article
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company found itself waist-deep in a rising tide of opaque data, P&G embarked on a voyage of big data discovery, one that provides a series of technology ...Full article
While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform claim it is poised to "rewire" financial markets. Among the promoters is IBM (NYSE: IBM), which argues in a recent report that a group of early ...Full article
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should think about it and define it. Advanced scale computing was once mostly the domain of government labs and large academic research centers. Today, the HPC universe ...Full article
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