Oracle Intros Visual Analytics Cloud Service

Oracle unveiled a Data Visualization Cloud Service that lets users combine data from a variety of sources -- Oracle and other SaaS applications, on-premises systems, external sources and personal files -- and immediately gain new insights using visual analysis. Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service provides compatibility and integration with the full breadth of Oracle's analytics offerings. "Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service makes data...

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IBM Launches Apache Spark-as-a-Service

IBM is launching a Spark-as-a-Service offering on Bluemix following a successful 13-week Beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by data. IBM also confirmed that it has redesigned more than 15 of its core analytics and commerce solutions with Apache Spark. Apache Spark was developed by the AMPLab at UC Berkeley as an open-source cluster computing framework. It offers in-memory...

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IBM Teams with Twitter and The Weather Company for Cloud Insights

IBM introduced Insight Cloud Services, a service that leverages data from Twitter and The Weather Company, as well as open data sets and business-owned data, to help turn streaming data into insights and change critical business outcomes. IBM said its new cloud-based insight services use analytic models to take the complexity of combining internal and external data. IBM Insight Cloud Services are accessed in a variety of offerings, including: IBM...

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Akanda Releases Astara Liberty Orchestration Code

Akanda, a start-up offering an NFV orchestration platform, announced its Astara's Liberty release for Layer 3-7 networking services. The new version, which is now available to OpenStack operators, is the open source network orchestration platform's most substantial since its initial launch, and is Astara's first since becoming an official OpenStack project. Some highlights of Astara's Liberty release: More configurability: A new load balancer...

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Radisys and InterDigital Demo M2M + LTE Core Interoperability

Radisys and InterDigital have demonstrated interoperability between a Radisys end-to-end LTE network, including the CellEngine eNodeB and Evolved Packet Core, with InterDigital’s oneMPOWER Platform. The demo, which is showcased at this week's IoT Korea International Conference in Seoul, Korea, includes 3GPP Release 12 compliant Radisys’ Trillium LTE CNE and CellEngine TOTALeNodeB LTE small cell software with certain feature modifications by InterDigital...

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Cisco Builds its Silicon Valley Start-up Incubator

Five new Silicon Valley start-ups have joined the roster at the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence incubation program. These are: C3DNA (http://c3dna.com) delivers self-reliance and portability of any application on any cloud infrastructure at the app layer. LISNR (http://lisnr.com) provides a new communication protocol that uses SmartTones, an inaudible technology that has the ability to connect mobile applications and devices. Simularity (http://www.simularity.com)...

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Cisco to Acquire ParStream for Database Analytics

Cisco has agreed to acquire ParStream, a privately-held company based in Cologne, Germany that provides an analytics database that allows companies to analyze large amounts of data and store it in near real time anywhere in the network. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cisco said ParStream's highly specialized database is especially useful for IoT applications that generate large amounts of data at the edge that needs to be processed in real...

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Qualcomm Intros LTE Modems for IoT

Qualcomm introduced its latest LTE modems (the MDM9207-1 and MDM9206) designed for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The MDM9207-1 is purpose-built for IoT applications like smart metering, security, asset tracking, wearables, point-of-sale and industrial automation – many of which require extremely reliable and power-efficient connections to cloud services. It offers Category 1 LTE connectivity with power and throughput optimizations, and other...

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PMC Posts Q3 Revenue or $134 Million

PMC-Sierra reported Q3 2015 revenue of $133.6 million, an increase of 7.1 percent compared to $124.8 million in the second quarter of 2015, and a decrease of 1.4 percent from $135.5 million in the third quarter of 2014. GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2015 totaled $6.7 million or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net loss in the second quarter of 2015 of $8.6 million or $0.04 per share, and to GAAP net income in the third quarter...

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Marvell Confirms that PricewaterhouseCoopers Quits

In an SEC filing, Marvell Technology Group announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers has quit as its outside auditor. PricewaterhouseCoopers, had served in that position for the two past fiscal years, resigned on October 20. Marvell noted that PwC advised the company that it would need to expand the scope of the 2016 audit in several areas, including whether senior management’s operating style resulted in an open flow of information and communication...

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