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Tintri ups the ante in the hybrid storage war with new generation of systems
Tintri Inc. is launching a new series of hybrid storage appliances sporting an upgraded version of its homegrown management stack in the latest development from the cutthroat race to deliver the next-generation of flash-enhanced arrays for the enterprise. The move comes days after rival Tegile Inc. revealed a similar combination of hardware and software updates ...
SAP poaches Microsoft’s data platform head to lead strategic cloud analytics push
In a move that could put a strain on one of the longest-running partnerships in the enterprise software market, SAP SE snagged Microsoft veep Quentin Clark to lead its ambitious transition from selling on-premise licenses to providing cloud-based analytic services. The Redmond veteran has officially started his new position as chief technology officer on Monday, slipping ...
After privatization, Michael Dell’s vision for an end-to-end vendor is finally coming together | #DellWorld
Dell Inc. has been a work in progress for the better part of the last decade as Michael Dell worked to make the personal computer maker he established in his dorm room in the 1980s a bigger part of the enterprise market. Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante and principal research contributor Stu Miniman traveled to ...
Historic tipping point for mobile shopping expected this holiday season
Smartphones and tablets will take a lead role in the forthcoming holiday shopping season, IBM Corp. predicts in its newly published forecast for the five-day retail frenzy, pushing the trend of mobile payments to new heights. If the tech giant is to be believed, 2014 will go down in the history books as a year ...
What you missed in Cloud: the container bandwagon gets even more crowded
The pressure on IT organizations to catch up with the cloud providers taking over more and more of the technology services that they used deliver is driving demand for a better way of virtualizing infrastructure than doesn’t necessitate setting up a mountain of scaffolding for every instance. Docker Inc. was first to address that requirement ...
Data boss spills the beans on his analytics strategy | #DellWorld
Over the span of a few years, Dell Inc. has managed to transform itself from a company best known for selling cheap computers to the masses into an enterprise technology powerhouse with a roughly two-billion-dollar software business. Much of that figure can be attributed to its information management group, whose vice president and general manager, ...
What you missing in Big Data: analyzing the here and now while predicting the tomorrow
Hadoop stands as a uniquely powerful tool for cost-effectively ingesting and processing vast amounts of unstructured information, but it doesn’t provide a means of delivering the resulting insights to users in the here and now. MapR Technologies Inc. moved the industry a step closer towards addressing that need last week after having its commercial version ...
Tegile makes all-flash storage more accessible with new arrays
Hybrid array maker Tegile Systems Inc. is pushing deeper into all-flash territory with two new appliances aimed at making the speedy storage accessible to a broader range of organizations. The launch comes as a response to similar gestures from competitors such as Hewlett-Packard Co., which jolted the market in August with the introduction of a ...
HP brings tech war chest to battle with flash array upgrades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is upping the ante in the battle for flash array dominance with new enhancements that the homegrown data services it has developed in recent years available to more customers. The move underscores the vendor’s emphasis on internal innovation, the result of financial challenges that have led CEO Meg Whitman to scale back on ...
More momentum for Docker with VMware veep hire, ecosystem funding
Docker Inc. seems to be gaining more momentum with each passing day as rising enterprise interest in containers nurtures a feedback loop of growth with it at the center. That traction is drawing all kinds of attention to the startup, not only from the developer and venture capital communities but also industry leaders such as Marianna ...
