CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

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 HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

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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Open Source IBM Oracle Government 150

CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

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. I was really surprised.

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IBM Open Source Big Data Research 150

CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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. Vice President, Enterprise Security. Director for Analysis, Open Source Center.

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Fractional CTO Security CTO Report 277

The Investing Edge

JUNE 10, 2014

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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Architecture Data Big Data Fractional CTO 107

CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

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). Variety: The differences in structure between all the types of data within an enterprise.

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Big Data Data Analysis Fractional CTO 286

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. And this doesn’t include the gen AI that’s now being embedded into platforms like Office 365, Google Docs, and Salesforce. in December.

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Fractional CTO Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 131