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Big Blue attacks EMC’s ViPR with its own spin on software-defined storage | #IBMEdge
It’s been a busy couple of days at IBM’s Edge conference in Las Vegas, with the enterprise technology stalwart unleashing a slew of product updates in a grand follow-up to the debut of its software-defined Elastic Storage platform last Monday. The technology, which incorporates components from the vendor’s Jeopardy!-winning Watson machine, serves as an abstraction ...
Top vendors closer to operationalizing analytics in the enterprise
The promise of analytics as a source of differentiation at the organizational level, in business as well as IT, remains beyond the reach of most traditional enterprises due to a combination of technical and cultural barriers that has proven too complex to be solved by a single blanket solution. So many vendors are taking an ...
SAP software coming to Azure this quarter
Software stalwarts Microsoft and SAP are combining their resources in a joint push to expand their respective public cloud footprints and attempt to capture a bigger slice of the growing percentage of enterprise workloads moving outside the corporate firewall. The firms will target both business users and developers as part of the collaboration, which was ...
Oracle enters Server SAN market with GreenBytes acquisition
Hit by the information explosion several years before the traditional enterprise, Internet giants such as Google and Facebook were forced to fundamentally rethink IT infrastructure, pioneering a radically different approach to delivering IT services that push the envelope on economies of scale. Their efforts have resulted in the development of an architecture Wikibon has defined ...
IBM intros new storage systems for companies tackling IT megatrends | #IBMEdge
Approximately 70 percent of organizations worldwide recognize IT as a source of competitive advantage, yet less than 10 percent are equipped to address the perfect storm of megatrends sweeping through the workplace, according to a study of 750 companies IBM published this morning for the opening of its Edge2014 storage conference in Las Vegas. The ...
Weekly Cloud review: At the intersection of OpenStack and today’s public cloud reality
Like many of its traditional rivals, Oracle has adopted an ‘if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ attitude towards OpenStack in an implicit acknowledgment that the project is disrupting the proprietary systems and software that currently account for the bulk of its revenues. But the database maker has arrived late to the party, allowing the ...
What you missed in Big Data: startups return to the spotlight
The analytics space has seen a flurry of startup updates in the past week, beginning with the Monday release of Splice Machine’s Hadoop database into public beta. Unlike structured query engines such as Impala, which merely provide the ability to manipulate information stored in HDFS using SQL syntax, the firm’s platform offers a full-blown relational ...
IBM turns OpenStack into just another app on the app store
If its many proponents are to be believed, OpenStack is on a fast track to becoming the de facto standard for cloud computing. But while the promise of universal programmability across the data center is certainly appealing, complexity remains a major barrier to realizing that vision within the enterprise, with most IT organizations lacking the ...
How Treasure Data helped one of Japan’s largest retailers unlock its consumer insights trove
Although its name literally translates into “no-brand quality goods,” the Tokyo-listed Ryohin Keikaku, better known as Muji, is very serious about driving commercial awareness. Often referred to as the Ikea of Japan, the retailer has successfully carved out a niche for itself in the global market with a unique corporate philosophy that posits minimalism as ...
Pure Storage lowers the barriers to entry for flash, again
Pure Storage is continuing its mission to make all-flash storage systems more economically viable for traditional IT organizations with the introduction of a new entry-level array aimed at setting users on a pain-free path to workload acceleration. Unveiled this morning, the FA-405 squeezes over 40 terabytes of capacity into a 1U controller that Pure pegs ...
