Everybody wants to get involved with the wide open roads of big data. IBM continues their journey to find and assimilate all medical data to feed to Watson, but not without a few bumps in the road (people are not happy about the Merge deal).
HP is attempting to get their rubber on the road with their own big data tool known as “Vertica”. They are also trying to get traction by announcing the new boards for each company post split.
Storage is a strong topic this week with the continued rumors of EMC shifting under VMware, Box poaching an EMC VP, and Google introducing two new storage and cloud platforms for enterprise.
IBM
- Merge Healthcare Investors Try To Block $1B IBM Takeover
A Merge Healthcare Inc. shareholder on Thursday launched a proposed class action in Delaware state court trying to block IBM Corp.’s planned $1 billion acquisition of the company, a day after another Merge shareholder filed a similar suit in Illinois state court.
http://www.law360.com/articles/690897/merge-healthcare-investors-try-to-block-1b-ibm-takeover
- IBM’s insatiable appetite for healthcare data
It’s pretty clear that IBM would love to get its hand on a large chunk of EMR data. The only catch is that EMR vendors are notoriously protective about their systems and work hard to keep their proprietary data inside their walled gardens. Interoperability with their systems is one of the biggest issues today in the free exchange of medical information. Privately owned EPIC, the largest among these vendors, has not provided any indications of going public anytime soon, so one wonders if the current owners might sell to a large behemoth such as IBM.
http://www.cio.com/article/2970229/big-data/ibm-s-insatiable-appetite-for-healthcare-data.html
- IBM’s big Big Data play goes beyond scratching the surface of data analytics
“Fraud analytics is obviously going to be more applicable to banking, but equally it could also apply to an insurance customer, it could also apply to a banking customer. It’s trying to understand what the business problem is that we are trying to solve.”
- CVS-IBM form a partnership for peeking, Brase warns
“Would patients really support the idea of corporations – large corporations – building complete profiles of them to determine whether they are high risk or low-risk individuals?” she asks.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/business/2015/08/12/cvs-ibm-form-a-partnership-for-peeking-brase-warns
Hewlett Packard
- HP names board members post split
http://tvnewsroom.org/newslines/business/hewlett-packard-names-board-members-for-post-split-companies-83629/ - HP Expands Its Big Data Analytics Efforts
The new release of Vertica—code-named “Excavator”—is designed to enable businesses to quickly take in and analyze streaming data from a variety of sources, including IoT applications. Integrated into Excavator is Apache Kafka, a distributed messaging system for data streaming that will enable the Vertica software to automate data loading and query for real-time analytics.
http://www.eweek.com/database/hp-expands-its-big-data-analytics-efforts.html
EMC
- Box Snags Former EMC Exec To Run Nascent Platform As A Service Offering
Patel will have the title senior vice president of platform and chief strategy officer. His primary responsibility will be building out the Box Developer Edition product, which enables developers to take advantage of services built on the Box platform to create applications without having to use the core product.
- EMC Exploring Reorganization Alternatives
The latest rumor is perhaps the most intriguing. Rather than simply sell its stake in $37 billion VMWare or buy the remaining 20% it does not already own and then spin it off, word has it the EMC board is contemplating having VMWare actually acquire its larger parent company. The strategy, should it come to pass, would involve issuing new shares of VMWare to dole out to existing EMC shareholders, along with some cash following the issuance of new debt.
Other
- Cloud Computing Market in Healthcare Research and Development Global Industry Analysis,Growth,Trends and Forecast 2020
The market for cloud computing in healthcare research and development is highly fragmented as none of the players operating in this market holds more than 5% to 10% share of the overall market. Some of the major companies operating in this market are Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, Merge Healthcare, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Carecloud Corporation and Carestream Health, Inc.
- Google launches two cloud services to compete with Amazon, Microsoft and IBM
The Mountain View-based company’s Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub will handle Big Data needs. Cloud Dataflow can perform complex computations on large quantities of data in batches or in streaming mode, while Cloud Pub/Sub is a tool that can send and receive data to and from applications in the form of “messages.”
- Vodafone’s India CIO Anthony Thomas quits ahead of $1 billion IBM deal renewal
Thomas joined Vodafone in April 2012 and played a key role in creating a new centralized IT structure within the company during his tenure. During his stint at Vodafone, the company also rolled out several new technology initiatives including the company’s microfinancing service m-pesa and also a new data warehouse.
- Box’s Platform Push Targets Corporate Developers
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-08-13/box-s-platform-push-targets-corporate-developers
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