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SAP Makes Cloud Moves, Google Advances AI: Big Data Roundup
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Cloud, data, and artificial intelligence were hot topics for several major players this week, including SAP and Google. We've got these latest developments and more in our Big Data Roundup for the week ended May 22, 2016.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/22/2016
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HPE Offers IoT Platform To Build, Analyze Data
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
With eye toward the future, HP Enterprise is now offering a vendor-neutral and multiple network supporting platform for building and analyzing data from the Internet of Things.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 5/20/2016
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Google Opens Chromebooks To Android Apps
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
The move that will eventually make the more than a million Android apps available to Chrome OS users has been long expected.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/20/2016
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AWS Offers New Options For Running SAP HANA On EC2
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
AWS is launching a new, memory-optimized instance on EC2 dubbed X1 that aims to make it easier to run SAP's HANA in-memory database. The announcement comes on the heels of a deal between SAP and Microsoft.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 5/19/2016
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Salesforce Earnings: CEO Marc Benioff Heaps Love On AWS
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
In unscripted remarks during Salesforce's first-quarter earnings call with analysts, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Amazon's Jeff Bezos and he and are planning an expanded partnership.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/19/2016
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Google I/O 2016: AI, VR Get Day In The Sun
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
At Google I/O, it was unclear whether the company's intention was to entice programmers with its new artificial intelligence offerings, or simply fry them in the Mountain View, Calif. sunshine. Here's what we were able to see before heat stroke set in.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/19/2016
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Google Sheets, Slides APIs Revamped To Improve Workflow
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
Revised APIs for Sheets and Slides aim to help developers make data in Google Apps for Work more readily accessible to third-party apps.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/18/2016
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SAP HANA SPS12 Adds Data Visualization, Other Features
Curtis Franklin Jr., Executive Editor, Technical Content
Commentary
SAP HANA SPS12 brings new features for testing, migration, and data visualization to customers for the in-memory database.
By Curtis Franklin Jr. Executive Editor, Technical Content, 5/18/2016
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ServiceNow Adds Azure To Its Cloud Management Front End
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
ServiceNow previously automated services for internal customers using AWS and VMware; now it's added the Microsoft Azure cloud.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 5/18/2016
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Microsoft, SAP Are Bringing HANA To Azure
Kelly Sheridan, Associate Editor, InformationWeek
News
Microsoft and SAP will expand their partnership by delivering Office 365 integration and SAP HANA on Azure.
By Kelly Sheridan Associate Editor, InformationWeek, 5/17/2016
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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Update Embraces Hybrid Cloud, Big Data
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Microsoft's forthcoming SQL Server 2016 adds better encryption, support for unstructured data queries including those on Apache Hadoop, and new features to enable the hybrid cloud. The updates are part of an overhaul that updates Microsoft's flagship database management platform for a new age.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/17/2016
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Google's Spaces Launch: Simplify Small-Group Sharing
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
In its latest attempt to become more relevant as a social networking provider, Google launches Spaces, an app for sharing among small groups.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/17/2016
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9 Free Online Courses To Pump Up Your Big Data, Analytics Skills
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Do you really need to go back to school and get another degree in order to establish yourself in a career as a data scientist? Maybe not. These nine free online courses can help you explore a range of topics, including Python, R, AI, machine learning, and Hadoop, before you commit to more advanced learning.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/17/2016
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Google I/O 2016: What To Expect
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
Updates on Project Tango, Android N, and Android Auto are among the announcements we expect at Google's annual developer conference this week. Here's what we know so far.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/16/2016
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Virtualization Market Now 'Mature,' Gartner Finds
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
Virtualization has been the biggest trend in the enterprise data center for over a decade. Now, however, new license revenues have plateaued, according to new research from Gartner.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 5/16/2016
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Apache Spark 2.0 Preview, Google's Amazon Echo Rival: Big Data Roundup
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Apache Spark 2.0 preview is released for Databricks customers. Google preps a stationary personal assistant like Amazon Echo. MarkLogic revs up security and encryption. We have all this and more in our Big Data Roundup for the week ending May 15, 2016.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/15/2016
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AWS Discovery Service Aims To Ease Legacy Migration Pain
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, Cloud
News
AWS executives have come to view the mixed legacy environment as one of the barriers to cloud adoption. Without automated help, it's a painful process to capture an application's interdependencies. AWS Application Discovery will do that.
By Charles Babcock Editor at Large, Cloud, 5/13/2016
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Google Sets 'Parsey McParseface' Free
Thomas Claburn, Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility
News
Developers can now use Google's SyntaxNet natural language parsing system to create apps that understand written text.
By Thomas Claburn Editor at Large, Enterprise Mobility, 5/13/2016
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MarkLogic 9 Enhances Security, Adds Optic API
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Pitching itself as the NoSQL database for the enterprise, MarkLogic unveiled version 9 of its platform at its user conference. It adds a host of new security features, plus new data management capabilities to help organizations wrangle structured and unstructured data.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/13/2016
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Salesforce Outage: Can Customers Trust The Cloud?
Jessica Davis, Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps
News
Salesforce experienced an outage and service disruption to the NA14 instance, sending customers to Twitter to complain and organizations to evaluate the best way to work with cloud software providers.
By Jessica Davis Senior Editor, Enterprise Apps, 5/12/2016
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