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IBM doubles down on hybrid cloud with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

CIO Business Intelligence

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 Today’s announcement is a continuation of IBM’s deep focus and investment in hybrid cloud and AI, the two most transformational technologies for clients today.”

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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The IBM Press Release on Spark That Every Tech Leader Should Read

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IBM just announced a major new push around Apache Spark. You know Spark, the free and open source complement to Apache Hadoop that gives enterprises better ability to field fast, unified applications that combine multiple workloads, including streaming over all your data. Spark today is production ready for many workloads.

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

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Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Defense Intelligence Officer for Cyber. Office of Science and Technology Policy. Executive Office of the President. IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist. Director for Analysis, Open Source Center. Independent Consultant.

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Five Ways to Advance your Career with Modern Data Architecture

The Investing Edge

Guest post by Todd Christy, Slalom Consulting and member of Ascent’s Technical Advisory Board. The market for rich, interactive data visualization tools has exploded in recent years, with innovators like Qlik, Tableau, and Good Data challenging slower-moving incumbents like IBM/Cognos and SAP/Business Objects. toddc@slalom.com.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

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In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). It is important to choose the right technology for your particular use case. What is Big Data?

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For IT leaders, operationalized gen AI is still a moving target

CIO Business Intelligence

Even in its infancy, gen AI has become an accepted course of action and application, and the most common use cases include automation of IT processes, security and threat detection, supply chain intelligence, and automating customer service and network processes, according to a report released by IBM in January.