Posts tagged "investment"
KPMG Capital CEO Mark Toon discusses corporate perspectives on big data

KPMG Capital CEO Mark Toon discusses corporate perspectives on big data

That global accountancy giant KPMG should be interested in data is not, perhaps, surprising. That KPMG would use its own money to “invest in, partner with and acquire organisations that specialise in data and analytics tools and assets” was less immediately obvious to me. But that, according to KPMG global lead for data and analytics Mark...

EUCALYPTUS Project closes $5.5 Million Series A with Benchmark, moves out of UC Santa Barbara’s Ivory Tower

It’s only a few short weeks since I last spoke with Rich Wolski, Director of the open source EUCALYPTUS Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “EUCALYPTUS — Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems — is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing Elastic/Utility/Cloud computing using computing clusters and/or workstation farms. The...