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Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure

May 4, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk stresses simplicity for smaller logos with no- or low-cost Insights for Infrastructure
Insights for infrastructure is aimed at the sub-$500 million segment, and while not an exclusive channel play, the channel will be an important part of the go-to-market strategy. It will also be available to MSPs, albeit in the single-tenant version that is standard for Splunk.

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Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things

April 18, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk unveils first packaged offering for Industrial Internet of Things
Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence [IAI] makes monitoring and diagnosis of equipment and operational issues in industrial IoT environments much easier, and while initially a limited group of SI partners will take part, Splunk sees it as having broader channel applicability down the line.

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Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure
A jointly engineered ‘AI-in-a-Box,’ AIRI allows customers to cut simulation training time by 4x, in a much tinier footprint than it took before.

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Talend emphasizes more creative, flexible training in partner program changes

March 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Talend emphasizes more creative, flexible training in partner program changes
Talend is looking to make it easier for their Big Data and cloud-focused partners to build the new and complex integrations now required when delivering Talend in projects.

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IBM chases down Watson’s Law

March 21, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on IBM chases down Watson’s Law
IBM CEO GInni Rometty suggests we’re at the beginning of an era where the big differentiator will be how fast companies can learn, with a lot of help from their machines.

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Hitachi Vantara improves time-to-value for data scientists with new machine learning model management

March 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara improves time-to-value for data scientists with new machine learning model management
Pentaho machine learning capabilities have been extended with new model management functionality that reduces the amount of time data scientists need to spend manually rewriting algorithms.

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Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit

February 28, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk announces enhanced partner benefits at Global Partner Summit
Last year’s refocus on the channel saw Splunk more than double the size of their partner base. This year they are looking to drive further by enhancing the existing partner tracks and formalizing two new ones.

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Adobe steps up Experience Cloud Big Data support with Hadoop support

January 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe steps up Experience Cloud Big Data support with Hadoop support
Extension of Federated Data Access connectors to Hadoop will be significant in the high end of the market, and for Adobe channel partners who work in that space.

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Looking Ahead to the Business Trends Shaping 2018—And Beyond

December 15, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Looking Ahead to the Business Trends Shaping 2018—And Beyond
Nancy Teixeira, VP of Scale-up and Enterprise, Sage, discusses some key trends that businesses will have to prepare for in 2018.

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Accelerite broadens Big Data analytics platform beyond developers with ShareInsights 2.0

December 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Accelerite broadens Big Data analytics platform beyond developers with ShareInsights 2.0
The Accelerite BI analytics program has undergone a major revamp since its original version to make it easier to use, which in turn will broaden its usage and make it easier to collaborate.