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Recent Reports

Teradata launches 'big data' apps, data lake services

Impact Report - March 6, 2015

The firm hopes its big-data apps, powered by the Teradata Aster AppCenter, can help extend the use of big-data analytics. Meanwhile, new data lake optimization services are coming, thanks to the recent acquisition of Hadoop-focused consulting and services firm Think Big Analytics.
Jason Stamper

Go Daddy S1 update shows revenue growth, small-business IT progress

Impact Report - March 6, 2015

The company recently added some detail to its IPO plans, and updated its financial results for 2014, which show growing revenue, international expansion, and new revenue from Web presence and business applications.
Liam Eagle

WaveMaker's container approach to rapid application PaaS includes API management

Impact Report - March 6, 2015

Since being sold by VMware in 2013, WaveMaker has been positioning as a rapid applications platform as a service. It supports Docker containers, and is building out applications integration with API management capabilities.
Carl Lehmann

APCON targets midmarket enterprises with new network-visibility offering

Impact Report - March 6, 2015

The midmarket IntellaStore II combines the functions of a network-visibility switch with storage (for traffic recording), and both APCON and third-party applications to provide a one-box offering for these price-sensitive customers.
Christian Renaud

AlphaGuardian Networks: standing watch in the datacenter

Impact Report - March 6, 2015

Trusting simple password and firewall protections is proving to not be enough as cyber attacks involving datacenter infrastructure increase. AlphaGuardian offers two product lines that it believes are essential to safeguarding datacenters from cyber attacks.
Chuck Whitney

IoT M&A looks to spread its wings beyond semiconductors

M&A Insight - March 5, 2015

Consumers' awareness of the Internet of Things is wrapped around home automation and fitness trackers, as evidenced by today's pickup of FitStar by Fitbit, yet bankers have spent more time with semiconductors and components. But while there were few IoT-driven acquisitions of software businesses last year, early indications suggest an expansion of such transactions in 2015.
Kenji Yonemoto Jason Stamper Ryan Martin

Nielsen bridges buying and watching with eXelate purchase

Deal Analysis - March 5, 2015

Nielsen has augmented its marketing effectiveness with the acquisition of eXelate. The deal comes as the opportunity to measure advertising ROI is getting more competitive – Oracle entered the space at the end of last year with its purchase of Datalogix.
Scott Denne

Docker adds container networking with SocketPlane buy

Deal Analysis - March 5, 2015

While a relatively small deal, application container vendor Docker's acquisition of networking specialist SocketPlane highlights how enterprise container management continues to gain traction and touch more of enterprise IT.
Jay Lyman Peter Christy

SanDisk aims flash storage at big data

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

The company's expansion from its strong consumer position into datacenter computing has been impressive, and its latest move is eye-catching. Not only is it climbing further up the stack into full storage systems, but SanDisk is targeting second- and third-tier applications for which flash has so far seen only very limited use – namely big data, content repositories, and even archives.
Tim Stammers

Getting back to growth: IBM is thinking cloud and ecologies

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

The company recently held an investor briefing to articulate a plan for returning to growth. IBM has indicated that a long-term future will likely see it engaged in the kind of shared ecosystems and ecologies that will require a huge cultural transformation for the firm.
William Fellows

ArangoDB puts multi-model DBaaS plans on hold, targets Mesosphere integration

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

The multi-model NoSQL specialist has confirmed the details of its seed funding round and discussed its plans to focus on integration with Mesosphere for private database-as-a-service deployments.
Matt Aslett

Google's new weapon in battleground of cloud price-performance: PerfKit

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

A consortium of partners and Google released a cloud benchmarking tool for Google, AWS and Azure clouds. Google hopes it will help make value, not cost, the primary criterion for choosing a cloud service as commodification erodes opportunities for feature differentiation.
Owen Rogers

A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon, you're talking real (E-Rate Wi-Fi) money

Spotlight - March 5, 2015

Wi-Fi vendors focused on K-12 education are poised to benefit greatly from increased funding of the E-Rate program beginning this summer. After an unfunded period and the updating of technologies covered by the program, 2015 E-Rate funding has been increased to nearly $4bn.
Christian Renaud

Allot differentiates video optimization with DPI, policy integration

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

The company is taking a more-is-better approach to video optimization, with well-integrated capabilities to help operators manage, control and monetize video traffic and content.
Rich Karpinski

Cloudsoft's DevOps-meets-the-cloud hand is playing well

Impact Report - March 5, 2015

The company is gaining momentum on the back of its DevOps-meets-cloud smarts, but its ticket to sustainable, profitable growth will be the addition of more paying customers to follow IBM, Canopy Cloud and Virtustream.
William Fellows

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