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What you missed in Big Data: the two-lane highway to the IoT
The task of taming the growing amounts of data pouring in from the connected universe starts with the devices themselves, or at least that’s the position of the Open Interconnect Consortium, a newly established industry group focused on harmonizing the way information is exchanged throughout the Internet of Things. The group currently only consists of ...
Microsoft’s rekindled love-affair with hardware goes deeper with new arrays
Microsoft has stopped being just an operating system company a long time ago, adding a considerable number of notches to its belt of titles over the years: server virtualization vendor, cloud service provider, tablet maker and most recently enterprise storage supplier with the acquisition of StorSimple in November 2012. The deal, the terms of which ...
Avere nabs $20M for the one storage system to unite them all
Extending on-premise storage infrastructure to the public cloud can potentially allow CIOs to have the best of both worlds: take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model to scale even the steepest of usage spikes on a budget, while still keep their most sensitive data within the four walls of their organizations. But “can” doesn’t always mean ...
Tsunami of team ups reaffirms accelerating Hadoop maturity
The burgeoning Hadoop ecosystem looks to be continuing on its aggressive growth trajectory, garnering yet more momentum with a string of new and expanded strategic partnerships marking the latest steps forward in the accelerating trend towards consolidation that Wikibon had identified back in February. The industry seemed to have progressed quite a ways over the ...
Splunk brings machine data analytics to mobile with iOS app
The explosion of information coming from connected devices is dominating the analytics discussion today, but in all the talk about exploiting machine-generated transmissions, surprisingly little attention is being given to the growing amount of data getting funneled back into the Internet of Things for mobile consumption. The proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the enterprise, ...
Here’s what Swift’s ‘most significant update’ brings to OpenStack
Building out a well-rounded storage stack that provides the advanced functionality enterprise customers expect and demand is a uniquely difficult undertaking that only a handful of large vendors have truly succeeded in tackling thus far. The task is made challenging by the fact that there aren’t any shortcuts to the years of hard work and ...
Why Azure-in-a-box may be back on the table
Microsoft is reviving efforts to bring Azure down into the data center with an upcoming line of pre-configured appliances codenamed “San Diego”, Redmond news veteran Mary Jo Foley cited anonymous insiders as saying in a fresh report. If true, the software giant’s latest shot at entering the private cloud race marks one of CEO Satya ...
On an acquisition spree, Cisco adds to its IoT toolbelt
The proliferation of connected devices in the workplace is putting more pressure on the corporate network than ever before, driving the need for a new approach to infrastructure management that can deliver the sustainable scalability required to support that growth. But although central, the changes occurring under the hood are only one part of the ...
An insider’s glimpse into the tech side of healthcare | #HPdiscover
With nearly 200 service locations and over 20,000 employees, Spectrum Health is Western Michigan’s biggest not-for-profit organization and one of the largest hospital operators in the state. As such, it carries responsibility not only for the welfare of the communities it serves but the security and effective delivery of petabytes worth of sensitive medical information ...
Weekly Cloud review: startup funding and hyperscale data centers
The scalability, performance and operational efficiencies afforded by the hyperscale model employed today in the world’s largest data centers are slowly but surely being brought into the reach of traditional enterprises, one open-source project at the time. At the forefront of the trend is CoreOS, a bare-bone Linux distribution that entered beta testing in May ...
