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Cisco’s latest buy secures telecom footprint amid shift to SDN
Cisco is shelling out $175 million in cash and retention-based incentives to buy a little-known service orchestration company called Tail-f in a bid to extend its ambitious Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative into the lucrative telecommunications market. The nine-year-old Swedish firm, which has raised over $6 million in funding to date, develops solutions designed to streamline ...
Zenoss taps veteran tech leader Greg Stock as CEO
With more and more hardware vendors moving up the stack to escape the accelerating commoditization of data center infrastructure, software providers like Zenoss are coming under increased pressure to differentiate against the fast-multiplying competition. The unified monitoring provider announced this week that it has appointed Greg Stock as CEO to chart a course through the ...
Converged network management, power boosts for NetApp’s latest storage suite
Not to be left in the dust amid the growing adoption of flash storage in the enterprise, NetApp is rolling out a new high-performance system designed to power the most resource-intensive of workloads while giving IT organizations the freedom to tailor their deployments to meet specific business requirements. The FAS8080 EX is the latest addition ...
Joining forces for predictive visualization : Two east coast firms take on Big Data
Datawatch and Quant5, two Massachusetts firms working to capitalize on the business world’s growing appetite for analytics, are combining their resources in a joint effort to level the playing field against their rivals. For a publicly-traded vendor that counts 496 of the Fortune 500 as customers, Datawatch has kept a low-profile. The nearly thirty-year-old company ...
Where networking fits into the hyperscale puzzle | #CubeConversations
The technologies pioneered by the world’s largest Internet companies to create so-called hyperscale environments that can cost-effectively keep up with the data explosion are trickling down into the traditional enterprise as the increasingly intertwined open-source and vendor communities work to lower barriers to entry. Emulex is right in the thick of things. Mike Jochimsen, the ...
Enterprise flash market sees first billion-dollar exit : SanDisk gobbles up Fusion-io
SanDisk is buying Fusion-io in a bid to capitalize on increasing demand for solid-state memory in the enterprise space, which is seeing rapid volume growth and higher margins than its core consumer products. That combination offers escape from the accelerating commoditization that threatens the Milpitas, California-based company’s bottom line. The all-cash acquisition is valued at approximately $1.1 billion, which makes it the ...
What you missed in Cloud : Tiptoeing around the race to zero
Vendors are coming up with new and creative ways to avoid being sucked into the price war raging among Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the infrastructure-as-a-service market. IBM, for its part, is simply steering clear of the pay-as-you-go model and sticking with the subscription-based pricing scheme of SoftLayer, the hosting provider it picked up last ...
Infosys’ new CEO hire marks shift to higher margin software products
In conjunction with a rekindling of rumors that celebrated Cisco boss John Chambers may soon step down, Infosys has named Dr. Vishal Sikka as its first outside chief executive. The historic appointment comes just over a month after the veteran technology and business leader departed SAP, where he spearheaded the development of the HANA in-memory ...
The insider perspective on EMC’s data protection-as-a-service pivot | #EMCworld
It’s sometimes hard for a company the size of EMC to keep up with its smaller and nimbler startup rivals amid the accelerating pace of technological change, but the challenge is worth it, according to the storage stalwart’s head of data protection and availability business, Stephen Manley. In his latest appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, he ...
What you missed in Big Data: Democratizing analytics
Accessibility has turned out to be the unifying theme for analytics this week, with a slew of updates pushing the envelope on ingesting and processing data. Taking the cake is Facebook’s decision to open-source Haxl, an internally-developed library designed to make it easier to pull information from multiple sources. Written in Haskell, a language that ...
