Insight News
February 23, 2016

Oracle Buys Ravello Systems In Bid to Grab Cloud Workloads

Tech Optimization
Oracle has acquired a virtualization startup named Ravello Systems in a bid to strengthen its public IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and differentiate against the likes of Amazo...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 22, 2016

IBM Aims for Enterprise Value with VMWare Partnership, Connect

Data to Decisions
IBM is teaming up with longtime partner VMWare on a deal that will see the latter's widely used virtualization software deployed across Big Blue's global network of data centers. H...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 18, 2016

Apple's Fight Against the FBI: The Stakes Are Massive

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
The legal battle between the U.S. government and Apple over the contents of an accused terrorist's iPhone is being called the most important privacy case in years, and Apple CEO Ti...
Chris Kanaracus
Steve Wilson
Insight News
February 17, 2016

SAP Scoops Up Roambi for Mobile BI

New C-Suite
SAP has quietly purchased Roambi, a suite of mobile BI and data-visualization tools, with plans to bring "mobile access to analytics to everyone." Terms of the deal, whic...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
February 16, 2016

Spark Summit East: Why You Should Pay Attention

Data to Decisions
One of the more important big data and data science conferences of early 2016, Spark Summit East, is underway this week in New York. The event is devoted to Spark, the open source ...
Chris Kanaracus
Doug Henschen
Insight News
February 12, 2016

The Big Cloud Lessons from Netflix's Move to Amazon Web Services

New C-Suite
Netflix has completed moving its streaming-video operations onto Amazon Web Services after a seven-plus year journey, and the massive project holds valuable lessons for any enterpr...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 12, 2016

Wipro Buys HealthPlan Services In Bid for U.S. Market Share

Matrix Commerce
Wipro is making a major new move into the US market with the $460 million purchase of HealthPlan Services, a Florida BPaaS (business process as a service) provider focused on healt...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 10, 2016

Google Responds to AWS Lambda with Cloud Functions

Data to Decisions
The cloud platform wars aren't just about costs: They're also about features, particularly ones that support new types of applications and deliver increased productivity and flexib...
Chris Kanaracus
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 09, 2016

Why Ford and Pivotal Are Teaming Up On A Smart Car Platform

Marketing Transformation
The Internet of Things cuts across so many technology areas that no single vendor can provide every piece of the puzzle. Therefore, IoT partnerships will rule the day for the fores...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland
Holger Mueller
Insight News
February 09, 2016

Microsoft MSP Consolidation Could Be Big In 2016

Matrix Commerce
While anyone can spot a big story, it's not as easy to pinpoint ones that make smaller ripples, indicating something larger going on under the surface. A case in point: Texas manag...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 04, 2016

Cisco to Buy Jasper In Defining Acquisition for the IoT Age

Data to Decisions
Cisco is buying red-hot IoT (Internet of things) startup Jasper for $1.4 billion, in a move that embodies the type of unions that will help define the IoT market moving forward. He...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Andy Mulholland
Insight News
February 03, 2016

MuleSoft Crosses the $100 Million Revenue Mark

Matrix Commerce
MuleSoft has crossed an important symbolic milestone, topping $100 million in revenue during its fiscal 2015, marking a growth rate of 92 percent. Valued at $1.5 billion, the start...
Chris Kanaracus
R "Ray" Wang
Insight News
February 03, 2016

Microsoft Buys SwiftKey In Another AI Move: Here's Why

New C-Suite
The parade of acquisitions related to AI (artificial intelligence) keeps coming, with the latest being Microsoft's purchase of SwiftKey, maker of a highly popular software keyboard...
Chris Kanaracus
Alan Lepofsky
Insight News
February 02, 2016

Key Takeaways from Salesforce's Big Product Strategy Day

Salesforce has set its product strategy table for 2016, outlining a slew of new and upcoming products and revealing a new pricing structure for its Sales and Service cloud suites. ...
Chris Kanaracus
Insight News
January 27, 2016

Waze Transport SDK Could Be A Boon for IoT Business Models

Future of Work
Google's Waze has made available an SDK (software development kit) that stands to not only vastly increase the crowdsourced navigation app's access to real-time data, but also butt...
Chris Kanaracus
Andy Mulholland