BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform
Big Data, Cloud
New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release
by Mark Cox •
Big Data
Big Data, Security
Splunk creates ‘better together’ security story with expanded suite of security offerings
by Mark Cox •
Splunk adds Phantom’s remediation capabilities to complete their end-to-end security story, while announcing new versions of their SIEM and User BBehavior Analytics software.
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Big Data, Cloud, Storage
SwiftStack expands market presence with new partnership with Splunk around Splunk SmartStore
by Mark Cox •
SwiftStack sees their new partnership with Spunk around the new SmartStore feature within the Splunk Enterprise platform as offering enormous new opportunities for SwiftStack, in making them attractive to customers who would never have considered them before.
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Big Data, Internet of Things
Splunk creates full Internet of Things offering with Splunk Industrial IoT
by Mark Cox •
Splunk announced its first full Internet of Things offering, with a bundle that combines Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, introduced earlier this year, with the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, to provide a full IoT solution with both predictive analysis and customization capability.
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Big Data, SalesBuzz
Selling Splunk: Keeping Splunk’s sales strategy up to date with Splunk Next’s technology advances
by Mark Cox •
Splunk introduced six new offerings at their .conf18 user conference, which are entering beta, and which are designed to open Splunk to large numbers of new customers. That market expansion will create new opportunities for the right partners.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
by Mark Cox •
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
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Big Data, Channel Programs, Internet of Things
New OEM and system integrator tracks highlight channel announcements at Spunk .conf
by Mark Cox •
The new tracks – the last of those likely for specific types of partners – were announced at this event, and will go live at next year’s Global Partner Summit. Other channel changes include some enhancements to the certification process.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Internet of Things
Splunk enhances analytics scalability, allows separate scaling of compute and storage and enables LOB users in new platform release
by Mark Cox •
Splunk’s announcements at the outset of their Spunk .conf18 event include significant new updates of their Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud platforms
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Big Data, Data Centre, Internet of Things
Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
by Mark Cox •
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.
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Big Data, Cloud
Data Quality vendor Naveego looks to Big Data with new platform release
by Mark Cox •
Naveego has refocused their platform for tracking, logging and cleansing data to be able to handle Big Data volumes, to take advantage of what they see as a growing opportunity in this space.
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Backup, Big Data
Imanis Data adds more machine learning functionality to Hadoop and NOSQL-focused Data Management Platform
by Mark Cox •
Key enhancements include a new RPO-driven backup capability and the first automated Any-Point-In-Time Recovery capability for NoSQL databases.
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Big Data, Software
Information Builders gives WebFOCUS platform modernized UI to drive much greater adoption
by Mark Cox •
Information Builders has enhanced the analytics capabilities in their platform, but the big news with this release is the UI changes, designed to make it much easier for a broader range of users to work with.
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Big Data
Increasing data catalogue adoption leads Alation to establish first partner program
by Mark Cox •
The Alation program launches with a dozen partners, which includes BI vendors and a mix of regional and niche integrators.
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Big Data, Cloud
Looker upgrades their platform’s machine learning with highly complementary Google Cloud BigQuery ML integration
by Mark Cox •
The integration between Looker and BigQuery ML unites all elements of data scientist workflows, so they can do all their work without having to Leave Looker.
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Big Data, Cloud
Sumo Logic lights up Google Cloud Platform with expanded application, TensorFlow integrations
by Mark Cox •
The Sumo Logic expansion of their GCP capabilities brings their GCP support up to the same level as their support for AWS and Azure, making it easier for partners to effectively provide a full multi-cloud strategy.
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Big Data, Cloud
OpenText CEO Barrenechea unveils new platform, augmented vision at EnterpriseWorld
by Mark Cox •
The OpenText CEO kicked off his company’s flagship event by situating their corporate vision and strategy within the context of the massive changes in the industry that have taken place over the last year, and situating OpenText’s major announcement at the event within the context of that strategy.
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Backup, Big Data
Imanis Data upgrades machine learning Data Management Platform as it expands channel strategy
by Mark Cox •
Imanis Data is looking for selected channel partners who want to emphasize data management rather than just backup, and who get that this requires selling to the C-suite.
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Big Data
MapR announces platform breakthroughs to deliver paradigm shift in automated analytics time-to-value
by Mark Cox •
MapR says these changes will let customers fundamentally reshape their use of analytics, which will also open up new opportunities for their channel partners.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Servers
HPE unveils new initiatives to scale The Machine’s Memory-Driven Computing more broadly to customers
by Mark Cox •
HPE will be driving their Memory-Driven Computing model much more broadly to customers, partners and ISVs, by making a sandbox version available, particularly to expose it to developers, and also by bringing it to market selectively through their Pointnext flexible consumption model services.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
AtScale brings their Data Lake middleware to Amazon, Microsoft and Google cloud marketplaces
by Mark Cox •
AtScale allows organizations to use their familiar BI tools like Tableau and Excel to process Big Data at extreme speeds. The new cloud marketplace initiative is aimed mainly at departments of enterprises.
