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Tuesday highlights: Making analytics happen, starting at the storage layer
It’s been another eventful day in the world of enterprise computing, with a number of notable players rolling out new products designed to help organizations make better use of their data troves. In the upper tier of the storage market, Violin Memory pulled the curtains back on the Concerto 7000, a rebranded configuration of its ...
Halfway into recovery course, the HP steamboat is already past the icebergs | #HPdiscover
Two and a half years into Meg Whitman’s five-year turnaround plan, Hewlett-Packard has managed to reverse much of the strategic damage wrought by its previous two CEOs, but the hardware titan still has a long way to go towards making up for the years of lost development time racked up under their watch. SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE ...
Monday highlights: Oracle’s biggest deal in years, funding for Cloud control
The week is off to a busy start with a series of major updates spanning both cloud computing and analytics, two of the hottest trends in the enterprise. Oracle set the pace for the day, confirming the acquisition of Micros Systems for $5.3 million, the most it’s paid for a company since buying out Sun in ...
How one of the world’s largest actuarial firms regain its storage mojo | #AdaptiveFlash
No enterprise tech conference is complete without customer success stories to back up the pitch, and Nimble Storage’s recently concluded launch event for its newest CS700 family of hybrid arrays was no exception. As part of SiliconANGLE’s exclusive coverage of the conference, Milliman technology architecte Ryan Miller was invited to theCUBE to share how the ...
The elusive support story of software-defined data centers | #HPdiscover
The software-defined data center is a broad topic that extends beyond infrastructure to people and processes, but while the underlying technologies have garnered plenty of attention lately, the operational aspects of making the jump from legacy environments tend to get less buzz. That is especially true when it comes to professional support, an essential safety ...
What you missed in Big Data: On the bleeding edge
It’s been yet another exciting week in the fast-paced world of analytics with a string of updates spanning the entire data processing lifecycle, from the initial collection stage all the way to the visual presentation of the insights gained along the way. It was RapidMiner that fired the opening shot with the acquisition of fellow ...
What you missed in Cloud: the industry teams up against AWS
Alone, an independent infrastructure-as-a-service vendor has no hope of competing with Amazon on pricing or scale, but a coalition of small firms working in tandem to overthrow the retail giant may just have a fighting chance. That’s the thinking behind the OnApp Federation, a newly established network of some 167 providers from 43 countries that ...
Oracle buys LiveLOOK to plug user experience hole in its cloud portfolio
Cloud services and analytics hold tremendous potential to drive productivity improvements in the workplace, but technology is only as good as the user allows it to be, a detail that is often lost in the discussion about the trends disrupting the enterprise landscape today. Oracle, however, has not allowed that fact to escape its attention ...
Teradata teams up with MongoDB for IoT apps in a case of ‘old meets new’
Data warehouse veteran Teradata and NoSQL rising star MongoDB are joining forces in a landmark partnership to provide a new and flexible way for application developers to harness the growing amounts of fast-moving information coming out of the connected universe. As part of the alliance, the firms are developing a two-way connector that will link ...
Red Hat continues OpenStack push with latest acquisition
OpenStack holds the promise to provide a common cloud standard across on- and off-premise environments that is both simpler and more scalable than current data center architectures, and provides an alternative to Amazon AWS. But for the CIOs in the trenches, the sheer effort required to set up the platform creates deployment headwinds. As a result, more ...
