Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems is set to buy analytics company Pentaho at a price rumored to be between $500 million and $600 million (closer to $500 million, from what I’ve heard). It’s… Read more »
Computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are joining the fight for open source chips with an instruction set architecture called RISC-V. They view it as a true open source… Read more »
Microsoft showed off more its big data strategy on Tuesday in an event that touched on everything Excel to “ambient intelligence.” If the company can execute, it has a shot to… Read more »
A Huntsville, Ala., company is moving from the machine-to-machine world into cloud platforms and big data. Here’s how it did it and how it thinks its work could actually end up… Read more »
Teradata is expanding out of the appliance world by offering a fully managed version of its data warehouse software as a cloud service. The company is also dipping a toe into… Read more »
We’re surrounded by broadband connections wherever we go, but we’re not allowed to access them. What if we could connect to every network we encounter? At Mobilize 2013 we’re advocating for… Read more »
With more than a dozen projects raising more than $1 million (some in less than a day), 2012 was a banner year for Kickstarter. Here are GigaOM’s favorite campaigns from the… Read more »