Splunk takes over SignalFX for over a billion dollars
Splunk announces that it has acquired SignalFX, a provider of cloud monitoring and predictive analytics tools. The acquisition will help Splunk become a leader in cloud observation and application performance monitoring in the marketplace.
The deal of 1.05 billion dollars (about 946 million euros... Read more
Dataiku simplifies collaboration through data science
Chances are you've never heard of Dataiku. The company
that focuses on collaborating on data science projects was founded in 2013,
after which it grew considerably in the following years. This is mainly because
the Data Science Studio (DSS) platform can exist alongside existing data
science initiat... Read more
VMware accelerates with HCX large-scale live workload migrations
VMware has announced the latest version of HCX. HCX is the company's application mobility platform. The platform accelerates large-scale live migrations of vSphere and other workloads from the new version, to help customers operationalize multicold and hybrid cloud transformations.
According to VMwa... Read more
Oracle Cloud Day revolves around cloud tools that drive innovation
After our presence in San Francisco at Oracle Open World
last year, we now attended the local Dutch edition. During Oracle Cloud Day,
Dutch partners and customers were updated on the developments surrounding
Oracle Cloud. Oracle really discussed the vision and developments around Oracle
Cloud.
D... Read more
Paessler will monitor everything with PRTG: IT, IoT and the cloud.
Paessler currently focuses mainly on the IT
infrastructure, on monitoring servers and networks. As soon as something goes
wrong, their monitoring tool, PRTG, alerts the system and network
administrators. This clear focus on IT is changing. Although monitoring the IT
infrastructure remains important... Read more
Less than 50 percent of IT managers have confidence in corporate data security
Less than half of IT managers say they have confidence in the security of their company's data. This is the conclusion of a worldwide survey of 5,000 IT managers conducted by Oracle.
Only 47 percent of IT managers say they have great confidence in their data management skills, writes IT Pro.
However... Read more
Tableau lets you communicate with your data in-depth
Big data is increasingly playing a role within companies
to support operational processes. But how can employees visualize this complex
mess of data in a clear and simple way in order to draw conclusions from it?
Tableau provides a tool that makes this possible. All the more reason to enter
into a ... Read more
Most companies do not trust their own data
There is a large gap between the IT management and the data specialists when it comes to the data of their own organisation. This is the conclusion of a study by Talend among 763 data professionals with different levels of responsibility.
According to the study, only 31 percent of data specialists -... Read more
IBM and Trifacta work together on data preparation tool for AI models
IBM and Trifacta have jointly created a tool to prepare data for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models. The tool has InfoSphere Advanced Data Preparation and should speed up the preparation of data for self-service analytics.
According to Big Blue and Trifacta, data pr... Read more
Google Cloud integrates Kaggle with BigQuery
Google has announced that it will integrate its BigQuery cloud data warehouse and analytics service with Kaggle. Kaggle is an online community for data scientists and other interested parties in machine learning to analyze and share their work.
By combining BigQuery with Kaggle - which Google acqui... Read more