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Analytics break: Big Data market splits into rival camps
A new trend has emerged in the open-source Big Data ecosystem over the last few months: top vendors scaling back and sometimes completely abandoning internal efforts to develop homegrown versions of hot new projects in favor of forming strategic partnerships with pure-play distributors. First it was Intel Corp. with its $740 million investment in Cloudera ...
GigaSpaces converges DevOps and monitoring with Cloudify 3.0
The host of new platforms and services that have made their way onto the CIO radar screen in recent years provide organizations with more freedom than ever in how they operate their environments, but that variety also translates into increased complexity. The individual components end up being assembled into vast and rigid tool chains that ...
MIT professor shares his take on the CDO | #MITIQ
About 25 years ago, a study was conducted at MIT to assess the impact of the education provided by the university on the overall academic performance of students. The results set off a series of probes into the school’s conduct. The researchers found that the average IQ score of graduating seniors was lower by a ...
PostgreSQL enhancements aimed at luring skittish MySQL users
Four and a half years after Oracle Corp. completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, MySQL continues to cast a formidable shadow over the web database market despite losing much of its original open-source character under Oracle’s new ownership. But to say that the buyout has not been felt in the ecosystem would be an understatement. ...
What you missed in Big Data: another spike the analytics investment chart
It’s been a historic week for the analytics market, with Hortonworks Inc. bagging $50 million in equity from Hewlett-Packard Co. as part of a broad strategic alliance that will focus on integrating the startup’s version of Hadoop with the HP HAVEn analytics suite. The move comes hot on the heels of Google’s venture capital arm ...
How Prodea is piecing together tomorrow’s smart home one service at a time | #CubeConversations
Although the smart home market already holds tremendous potential in its current fragmented form, Prodea Systems argues that the connected whole can be worth even more than the sum of its devices given the right catalyst. The eight-year-old company wants to be that catalyst. Led by serial entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, who holds the title of ...
VMware expands European cloud footprint with second UK data center
While some competitors opt to announce their cloud expansions 15 data centers at a time, VMware Inc. is taking a much more reserved approach to scaling its infrastructure footprint, sticking to one facility per press release. The company has been accelerating its expansion efforts over the last few months, though, as competitors have picked up ...
Inside Nimble’s cloud analytics op | #CubeConversations
Solid-state memory offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk, but when there are dozens of different vendors all touting the same value proposition, it becomes much more difficult for CIOs to cut through the jargon. It’s even harder for the suppliers themselves, especially newer players such as hybrid array maker Nimble Storage, which ...
SAP joins software rivals on the open cloud bandwagon
The old guard of the enterprise software industry has been charichastically slow to recognize the potential of OpenStack as a means of countering Amazon’s advance on its home turf, but it eventually adapted, at least to some extent, to the new reality of open cloud computing. That is, with the notable exception of SAP, which ...
Big Switch extends SDN vision to the physical plane
Four years after setting out to change how enterprise networks are operated with an overlay solution designed to provide a centralized management layer atop existing infrastructure, Big Switch Networks is rolling out a new platform aimed at disrupting the entire data transportation pyramid all the way down to the hardware. The change of direction introduces ...
