VMware is the latest major technology market player to get into the cloud consultancy game with this week's formation of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, a new business group of former IT executives that aims to lend their expertise...»

IBM posted mixed earnings results today. Its dividend beat street estimates by 13 cents but revenues were flat with services showing limited gains. Big Blue's Global Technology Services segment saw revenues increase 2% to...»

Skybox Imaging, a fledgling services startup that's building a business around applying big data analytics to satellite imagery and video, has raised $70 million in Series C funding from Canaan Partners and Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its overall funding to...»

Sometimes you want to run analytics on large volumes of historical data – aka Big Data analytics. And other times you need to perform analysis on data as it arrives at your front door – aka real-time...»

Japan-based NTT Data is officially the latest company to announce a new services business this week.  NTT Data Cloud Services however is going in a direction that is seen more often in the industry....»

Dell and Rackspace Hosting  made announcements today that make partners a key part of their OpenStack and big data market plays. Dell's announcement is the more far-reaching. The Dell Emerging Solutions Ecosystem is a partnership program...»

DataMotion announced the general availability of the DataMotion Platform, a PaaS that wants to help enterprises manage the way they deliver and recieve data. Companies have a lot of "data-in-motion" as DataMotion calls it, a...»

You can say what you want about the cloud and its faults. The CIO will say it lacks security. Vendors will tell you that it's better to have your own private cloud. The linkbait kings...»

With over 1,500 analytic professionals on staff, Chicago-based Mu Sigma boasts what has to be one of the largest collection of Data Scientists under one roof. Putting together and maintaining such a large group is no small...»

As we gear up for this week's OpenStack Conference, Rackspace is betting its business on the OpenStack project with today's announcement that the hosting provider is moving its flagship Cloud Servers offering onto a platform...»