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Surprise! Surprise! (But not really.) EMC today announced that it is spinning off a new company, Pivotal Initiative.

Why should Big Data remain in the hands of IT? Alteryx believes it doesn’t have to, and, with its April release of its Strategic Analytics platform, the company says it is further advancing the Consumerization of Big Data. 

Prime-time television drama doesn’t get better than this. By December last it looked like there was little more to be said about the the HP-Autonomy dispute until the court hearings. But like an IT cornucopia, it just keeps giving. Late last night it was revealed that the Serious Fraud Office that is investigating the scandal in the UK is -- wait for it -- using Autonomy software.

Organizations looking to move any development into the cloud have yet another reason to choose Amazon as the company rolls out virtual private clouds to new instances of its EC2 computing system.

Huge data flows can yield virtual gold mines of insights, predictions and other analysis, but what happens when the text-based data is in multiple languages? To address Big Data’s Big Language problem, customer engagement provider SDL has announced that its cloud-based BeGlobal machine translation (MT) solution can now integrate with text analytics processing, boosting the ability to track customer sentiment and business trends in multiple languages. 

Uncertainty is inherent in any plan. But there are actions that can be taken to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes and to reduce risk.

Box is going to very busy over the next year or so as it prepares for its IPO. In the meantime it needs to keep users happy -- after all, happy users generally means happy investors. Last October Box launched Box for Windows 8. This week it is tweaking that and adding some more.

e-Discovery is normally thought of as a legal process related to the identification, gathering, analysis and transfer of data (e.g., documents and email) for lawsuits and other legal matters but though that is true, e-Discovery is at its core, a risk management issue.

For its first acquisition of 2013, OpenText has bought a long-time fellow traveller Resonate Knowledge Technologies (KT) which has been working with the OpenText Content Server and Enterprise CMS offerings for a long time.

You can say what you want about Microsoft, but one thing you can’t accuse it of is not listening. You may recall the storm of protest across the Web a couple of weeks ago when it became clear that the licensing agreement on the new Office 2013 release limited each license to a single machine. Well, according to a blog post from Microsoft, it has caved in to consumer pressure.

Got a case of the SIEM? Could be if your Security and Information Event Management (SIEM) strategy is taking longer to deploy or you're struggling with managing its complexity. A new report from eIQnetworks, which offers simplified security, risk and compliance solutions, reflects responses from 191 IT decision makers and shows that 44 percent said that it took a few weeks to more than a month to deploy their latest SIEM product.

Moving part or all of your business to the cloud is a challenge (to put it mildly). But there are some steps you can take to ease this transition.

There will be some interesting regional differences in enterprise software spending over this year and next, according to Gartner, but ultimately for the US and Europe things are not looking good. Growth over the next 18 months will be static, or even negative, with cloud computing and customer relationship technologies the areas that will do best.

Recommendation systems have been popular for years in social networks, online booksellers and other sites. Now, Toronto-based Panorama Software has unveiled a new version of its Necto business intelligence (BI) solution that incorporates a recommendation engine to help drive discovery.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft were going strong in their ongoing spat over cloud pricing early last December, but then things got quiet. Now Microsoft has announced the acquisition of MetricsHub which should add a little bit more edge to its Azure offering by providing software to monitor and automate resource allocation for Azure.