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Oracle has spent the past few years building out a global data center network for its cloud services operations, and is hoping to improve performance and customer experience across it with the acquisition of Dyn. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but here are some key details from a letter attributed to Oracle president Thomas Kurian:
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Hidden in an overall update on its vast Machine Learning portfolio of last week (see the blog here) was an unusual use case for a vendor like Google - a Jobs API. Clearly a foray into the enterprise application space, HCM in general and Recruiting in detail.
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A blog I have meant to write since a long time, being a heavy user of Twitter... related to how reputation and follower dynamic on Twitter are working out - from my vantage point... so let's muse about this...
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Digital Influence, Social Video & Experience-Driven Leadership | DisrupTV Ep. 39
In DisrupTV Episode 39, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with:
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Terrific NYT infographic -- the colored counties are those whose presidential votes were "landslides" i.e. the winner 20% or more above the loser. The maps look like Hot Zone or any of the virus outbreak movies -- polarization engulfs the entire population over time. More data on the site about the characteristics of the red and blue counties’ populations.
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Verint Systems is moving deeper into customer engagement with the purchase of OpinionLab, which offers a system for collecting customer feedback in real time. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Here are the key details from Verint's announcement this week:
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This report examines developments in the FIDO Alliance through the third quarter of 2016. These developments include new board members, expansion in Asia, and growth of its certification program.
We’ve been talking about living in a digital world for decades, but most of us are still surrounded by paper, business cards, stick notes, todo lists, whiteboards, photos, magazines and other physical forms of content. To help reduce that clutter by transforming content into secure, searchable and signable PDF documents, Adobe has updated their Acrobat Reader mobile application to now include scanning functionality.
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A lot of progress with Microsoft, but often product and event cycles don’t align. It is good to see that developer productivity remains top priority for Microsoft and with that the vendor helps enterprises to build next generation applications. It is good to see Microsoft also embraces the reality of Linux, becoming a Linux Foundation member. Will be curious what Microsoft may contribute in the future. Moreover, Microsoft makes good on the premise to protect code investments – both from an UWP and a .Net perspective. Good news for enterprises to get another IaaS to run .Net applications with Google Cloud.
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Data Lake Store, a pair of cloud services aimed at making big data analytics an easier proposition for customers who are willing to make certain tradeoffs.
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Every tech vendor is sure to line up significant announcements for their high-profile conferences, but GE Digital may have overachieved this week in conjunction with its IoT-focused Mind + Machines event.
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Once upon a time, ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the Linux OS a "cancer." Today, under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft released a public preview version of its SQL Server database that runs not only on Windows, but Linux. Not only that, but Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum-level member. Changing times, indeed.
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Koch Industries' investment arm has just placed a massive bet on Infor, striking a deal that will provide the privately held ERP vendor with more than $2 billion in investment. Infor will use the money to expand its push into cloud-based ERP and industry applications. Here are the key details from the companies' announcement:
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We had the opportunity to attend Kronos yearly user conference KronosWorks, held in Orlando from November 13-16, 2016.
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Hortonworks is taking a significant step forward into the cloud with its Hadoop distribution, announcing the availability of a new managed service on Amazon Web Services dubbed Hortonworks Data Cloud. Here are the key details from its announcement:
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With Donald Trump poised to take over the U.S. presidency, does it make sense for all of us to move to encrypted e-mail if we want to preserve our privacy? Encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail says yes, indeed.
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What do you do when you're reading an article or paper, one that it's very important you understand, and get stumped by a particular passage? More often than not, you'll head over to Google—or whatever your favorite search engine is—start surfing the Web, and won't stop until you find a satisfactory answer to the puzzle.
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Tableau announces scalability, governance, data-prep and ‘smart’ features due in 2017, but can the company land more enterprise-wide deals amid tightening competition?… Continue reading →
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The 20th SAP TechEd gave Bernard Leukert, SAP Head of Products and Innovation, and Tanja Rueckert SAP Head of IoT, the opportunity to present SAP’s overall vision and direction with the linkage to IoT. A key message concerned Enterprises future with almost unlimited data that transforms the requirements and definition of Business value. Possibly because TechEd is a technology centric event the depth and coherence of the message was more focused and stronger than at the SAP Sapphire event earlier in the year.
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2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper Mantra Of HyperscaleSource: GoogleAs clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscaledata centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up an
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Collaboration, Culture & Digital Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 38
This week on DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar welcome Inhi Suh, General Manager at IBM Collaboration Solutions, and Heather Clancy, contributor for Fortune and GreenBiz. Constellation Research Inc.
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