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EMC builds a bridge to the “3rd Platform of IT” with new hyperscale module + ViPR 2.0
The megatrends of cloud computing, analytics, social media and mobility are on a collision course for what IDC refers to as the “third platform for IT”, a term that the research firm had coined in a late 2012 forecast and represents the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. Nearly two years later, ...
Delivering stability through the open hybrid cloud | #RHsummit
During his address at VMworld 2008, VMware’s then-CEO Paul Maritz famously remarked that “the traditional operating system has all but disappeared” in the data center. The former Microsoft executive, who presently runs EMC cloud analytics spin-off Pivotal, was talking not so much about a particular platform (although he did point a finger towards Windows multiple ...
What you missed in Big Data: business users once again in the spotlight
Business intelligence software (BI) has become ubiquitous in the enterprise over the last two decades, but while deployment rates may as high as ever, there exists a large gap between ownership and actual usage that is costing CIOs in unnecessary license fees. The average knowledge worker no longer spends most of their day trying to ...
EMC’s friends and foes step up their game
As the world’s biggest storage vendor, EMC regularly finds itself at the center of attention in IT industry circles, both among partners and rivals. We’ve seen that yet again this week following two significant ecosystem updates, the most important of which is the harmonization of the VCE channel program. Established in 2009 as a joint ...
Attunity’s place at the intersection of structured data and web-scale applications | #PerconaLive
Organizations are tapping into new sources of information for competitive advantage, but the journey from concept to reality is proving to be a bumpy one, with management complexity emerging as a major bottleneck to turning raw data into business insights. Attunity vice president of marketing Lawrence Schwartz returned to theCUBE at this week’s Percona Live ...
Weekly cloud review: app stores and OpenStack
It’s the week of the app store in the public cloud. On Monday, IBM pulled the curtains back on an online service marketplace for its SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service platform that brings together its previously largely disparate lineup of management solutions in a cohesive portfolio modeled after AWS. Announced at Big Blue’s annual Impact conference in Las ...
BRAINNNS! Hyperscale smarts the answer to zombie infrastructure (Infographic)
Straining under the weight of more data than it was ever meant to handle, the traditional server-client architecture has turned slow and rigid. Judging by the rate at which digital information is growing, it should probably already be dead, yet it still keeps going, ever on the brink of system failure. It’s time for CIOs ...
Highlights from Knowledge14 : Outgrowing the cocoon
Taking place this week in San Francisco, ServiceNow Knowledge14 has attracted 6,000 attendees, a 50 percent increase from last year’s event that puts the conference on a fast trajectory towards the big leagues of vendor shows. The tremendous traction around the summit mirrors the company’s own momentum, a result of accelerating adoption among large organizations ...
Aerospike Spike CEO talks innovation in the database | #tbt #theCUBE
Brian Bulkowski, the founding CEO of database startup Aerospike, stopped by theCUBE to discuss the state of this market with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon principal analyst Dave Vellante. Bulkowski’s company pegs itself as a vendor of real-time NoSQL technology for large scale web applications environments. He says that Aerospike stands out when it comes ...
With Inktank buy, Red Hat expands software-defined vision across entire open storage spectrum
Red Hat has just made public that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Inktank, a venture-backed startup launched in 2012 by the developers behind the Ceph software-defined storage component of OpenStack to commercialize the project. The transaction is expected to complete in May 2014, subject to customary closing conditions. The open source stalwart ...
