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What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop meets big iron
IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original System/360 this week with the introduction of a slew of new products for its latest generation System z mainframe, including a purpose-built Hadoop distribution developed in collaboration with Veristorm that allows customers to analyze their mission-critical data where it resides. The offering, called zDoop, provides an alternative to ...
Weekly Cloud review: Incumbent vendors embrace new reality of enterprise computing
Traditional enterprise vendors are embracing the public cloud as software-as-a-service continues to disrupt on-premise applications. SAP, for one, is already well along its way in transforming into a cloud services company, and it marked another milestone in its journey this week with the introduction of a hosted business operations suite. SAP Business Suite via the SAP ...
VMware takes aim at Citrix with Horizon 6
VMware is reinforcing the on-premise pillar of its hybrid computing strategy with a new release of Horizon that connects the dots between the software-defined data center and the public cloud in a unified platform for virtualizing desktops and applications. The announcement comes a month after the firm introduced Horizon DaaS, a hosted VDI service that ...
NetApp reshuffles top ranks
Storage vendor NetApp announced a series of major changes to its senior leadership team this week, most significantly the election of chief executive officer Tom Georgens as chairman of the board. He is stepping into the shoes of 20-year company veteran Dan Warmenhoven, who held the role of CEO from October 1994 to August 2009 ...
IBM celebrates System/360 50th anniversary with Hadoop + cloud + mobile offerings for System z
Fifty years after the original System/360 revolutionized business computing, big iron remains a fixture at most enterprises, with much of the world’s mission-critical data still stored on mainframes for security reasons. But having a tight perimeter is a double edged sword, since it not only puts information beyond the reach of external hackers but also ...
VCE instrumental in transforming the software-defined data center concept into reality
VCE has come a long way in a short time, surpassing $1 billion in annual sales less than six years after its launch on the back of rapidly growing demand for simplicity and full-stack integration. It’s the combination of EMC, VMware and Cisco set out to deliver when they established the joint venture in November ...
Red Hat lets customers move Linux subs to Google Compute Engine
There are a number of reasons for using public cloud services, including rapid access to technology resources and the ability to reduce overhead costs associated with maintaining on-premise infrastructure. But despite the low barrier to entry afforded by the pay-as-you-go model, the advantages of cloud computing remain inaccessible to many enterprises due to all the ...
SAP completes another leg of cloud journey with Business Suite subscription debut
SAP is making its flagship Business Suite available as a service in an effort to pave a migration path to the public cloud for organizations with existing on-premise deployments of its software. The business intelligence giant didn’t specify when the new offering will launch or how much it will cost, but said that the bundle ...
Teradata puts the logical data warehouse puzzle together with new product releases
Teradata hopes to deliver the elusive promise of the logical data warehouse with a new version of its flagship platform that extends into the Internet of Things and provides a single point of access for the entire enterprise analytics stack. Teradata Database 15 introduces deep support for the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) interchange format, the ...
Prodea takes on iControl with US launch : Smart home OS wars
Prodea Systems today announced the general availability of its Residential Operating System (ROS) in the US. The platform, which promises to deliver a consistent user experience across each and every connected household device from phones and tablets to Wi-Fi thermostats, is already in use by seven service providers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and ...
