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Yahoo extends mobile footprint to app analytics with Flurry acquisition
With smartphones and tablets now accounting for more than half of the traffic to its services and related advertising revenue up more than 100 percent from last year, it’s only natural for Yahoo Inc. to want a bigger slice of the burgeoning mobile universe. The latest sub-segment that the struggling web giant has set its ...
In odd coupling, OpenStack purist Mirantis join with Oracle against common enemy Red Hat
Mirantis, Inc. took the mantra “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to a new extreme last week after announcing a partnership with Oracle Corp. which is traditionally of the most staunchly proprietary software vendors in the industry, to provide support for the latter’s cloud stack. The move seems odd at first glance since ...
VMware offers safe passage from lock-in with low-risk migration path
VMware is making it easier for organizations to migrate to its software with a new initiative that aims to address both the technical and financial barriers to moving off rivaling offerings. Safe Passage, as the program is known, is designed to drive adoption of its core end-point products: the Horizon suite of desktop virtualization and ...
BlackBerry CEO recruits another Sybase colleague to drive enterprise growth
If there’s a tech firm that has taken the old saying “change comes from the top” to the heart, it’s BlackBerry. Thankfully for the firm, the call had been heeded by CEO John Chen. Since tapping the software industry veteran last November to spearhead its uphill push to turn revenues around, the struggling phone maker ...
The Nimble angle on the modern enterprise technology landscape | #CubeConversations
The era of big vendors dominating the enterprise market may not be over quite yet, but new players such as Nimble Storage are rapidly improving their ability to compete against incumbents. That accelerating phenomenon and the company in particular have both already made their mark on the industry, shaking up the balance of the power ...
What you missed in Big Data: bridging the knowledge gap
The rule of thumb in the Hadoop ecosystem is that the newer a technology is, the fewer people possess the necessary skills to exploit it. Apache Spark, an emerging data crunching engine for the batch processing framework described by its backers as orders-of-magnitude faster than the current standard, is no exception. As a result, the ...
Cisco and Microsoft link up to push mutual cloud agenda
Another day, another landmark alliance. Except this time, the parties involved are not a pair of up-and-coming startups but Cisco and Microsoft, leaders in their respective markets that, despite their size, have not yet been able to catch up to Amazon in the public cloud. The main focus of this partnership is driving sales growth. ...
SAP goes after SMBs with new dedicated business group
The reality is that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) account for nearly half of the world’s gross domestic income. That makes the low-end of the market an unavoidable underpinning for even the largest of vendors, including SAP, which is now going after the ma and pa shops with a dedicated group that will focus entirely ...
How and why flash is eating the world | #CubeConversations
By now, the industry has more or less reached a consensus that solid-state memory is a game changer for enterprise storage, but the question of exactly how big of an impact it will have on the way organizations store and access their data still persists. Stu Miniman, the resident software-led infrastructure analyst at Wikibon, appeared ...
Analytics break: Oracle whips out the Big (Data) guns as rivals expand to new territory
The modern data management landscape is dotted by new players seeking to secure their very own slice of the increasingly lucrative analytics pie, but the incumbent vendors continue to rein at the top of the table, their presence felt as strong as ever. That’s been especially true these past few days as three of the ...
