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HANA coming to RHEL as part of expanded Red Hat-SAP partnership
Applications can make or break an operating system. Microsoft’s snowballing success with Windows in the desktop market stands as the most notable example of that, but the same also holds true in mobile and the enterprise, where ecosystem support is often just as important as the platform itself. Red Hat has not lost sight of ...
Weekly Cloud review: clash of the IaaS titans
The world’s three largest cloud providers are at each others’ throats again after a series of updates that hasn’t proven quite as intensive as January’s industry-wide price war, but serves as a reminder that the competition is hotter than ever. Just as in the previous skirmish, it was Google that fired the opening shot, this ...
This week in Big Data: New twists on databases and ETL
Traditional data management tools are being reinvented for the era of unstructured information in an effort by vendors to the apply lessons from yesteryear to solve the new set of challenges enterprise CIOs are struggling with today. Even Oracle is getting in on the action. The company on Tuesday launched a centralized management tool for ...
Trifacta nabs $25M from top SV investors for data transformation tech
Even more difficult than taming vast amounts of information from an almost as expansive array of sources in a controlled environment that allows for further processing is turning raw output into useful knowledge users can exploit to make better decisions. The main operational challenge in that portion of the analytics lifecycle stems from the large ...
Brocade brings a network perspective to Big Blue’s enterprise roadmap | #IBMedge
Infrastructure is often only thought of in terms of the big picture, with little or no attention given to the fact that the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts. That reality is only now beginning to sink in among decision makers as industry efforts to decouple management functionality from the ...
HP injects more Hadoop into Vertica with Dragline
The race to deliver the industry’s first end-to-end Big Data platform continues apace. Hewlett-Packard this week pulled the curtains back on a new version of its Vertica analytic database that makes processing large volumes of highly varied information more feasible for economic-minded organizations with existing technology investments to sustain. Dragline, as the new release is ...
Counter Google’s dismal diversity data with innovation : Hats off to women in tech
Many in Silicon Valley look to Google as a role model, but while it may be performing well in the marketplace, it’s far from perfect. Like the majority of large companies in the technology sector, the search giant is guilty of allowing workplace inequality, but whereas others have historically been reluctant to share internal statistics, ...
RedPoint hopes to narrow Hadoop skills gap with YARN-based data integration platform
The U.S. could face a shortage of up to 190,000 workers with analytical skills by 2018, according to an ominous 2011 McKinsey study that hardly ever seems to go unmentioned whenever data science is involved. But as the deadline to bridge the skills divide edges closer, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the gap is shrinking ...
Integration + iteration : Key components of Big Blue’s storage success | #IBMedge
The staggering pace of technological change can sometimes make it seem like startups have an inherent edge over their slower moving incumbent rivals when it comes to innovation. But in some cases, being evolutionarily is just as good as being revolutionary, if not better. IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a testament to that. Born ...
Oracle reaffirms support for MySQL with centralized management tool for large-scale deployments
With the digital universe set to reach 40 zettabytes by 2020, the needless repetition involved in managing information silos individually, as has been done in the past, is becoming less and less acceptable for resource-strapped IT organizations already stretched thin. Yet so far, the world’s most popular open source database didn’t allow for centralized administration, ...
