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MapR continues on aggressive expansion path with new Asia Pacific office
MapR last week expanded its presence in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region with the opening of an office in Seoul meant to serve as a platform for addressing the accelerating adoption of Big Data among South Korea’s largest companies. The move comes five months after the Hadoop distributor arrived in Japan, and marks the latest ...
FalconStor bounces back from 15 quarters of loss with sweeping product improvements
A few days after reporting its first profitable quarter in four years, FalconStor has announced three major product updates that bring the software-defined data center yet another small step closer to reality. Most notable is the latest version of the company’s aptly-named Optimized Backup and Deduplication Solution, which wraps a common interface around its ultra-fast ...
The predictive enterprise : Alpine Data Labs’ Bruno Aziza on effective analytics at the organizational level | #BigDataSV
The analytics vendor landscape can be roughly divided into two camps. There are those championing the traditional open-source approach to Big Data, like Hortonworks, and then there are the firms that are diverging from the beaten path and differentiating with proprietary technology. Opponents of the latter model argue that a single company cannot possibly sustain ...
Send in the clouds : Stu Miniman + the Storage Alchemist on cloud innovation in the enterprise and beyond
Cloud computing is sweeping through the enterprise, giving rise to new challenges and opportunities that CIOs simply cannot afford to ignore. Steve Kenniston, an industry veteran best known for his personal blog The Storage Alchemist, appeared in the latest episode of SiliconANGLE’s Cube Conversations series to discuss the state of the market and the technologies ...
NetApp consolidates SAN, NAS and storage virtualization into hybrid platform
NetApp on Wednesday introduced a new line of scale-out hybrid arrays designed to address rapidly growing capacity demands in the enterprise without overburdening IT organizations. The FAS8000 series packs several major improvements, including the addition of Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge processors and the ability to support up to three times as much flash memory as ...
BMC ups ante on self-service IT with portfolio refresh
BMC Software, a longtime maker of IT automation solutions that went private last year after more than two decades on the stock market, has kept busy since leaving the public eye. The company this week announced the next generation of its help desk and service management solutions, which have been infused with social functionality and ...
Zettaset wins patent for “split brain resistant failover” in Hadoop
Zettaset, a fast-growing developer of management software for Hadoop, has been awarded a patent for the high-availability (HA) component that ships with its flagship Orchestrator solution. Issued on November 26, 2013 and announced last week, U.S. Patent #8,595,546 covers a technique for “split brain resistant fail-over in high availability Hadoop clusters.” The technology is fully ...
QLogic doubles down on growth areas + reasserts Fibre Channel dominance with Broadcom patent deal
QLogic, which earlier this month marked the tenth consecutive year as the largest vendor of Fibre Channel (FC) adapters by market share, is investing heavily to sustain its edge over the competition. Defying the weakening demand for the technology, the Aliso Viejo, California-based manufacturer recently acquired Brocade’s converged adapter business as part of a broad ...
Intel invests in Chinese tech firms as part of cloud + Big Data push
Intel is kicking off the Year of the Horse with a series of strategic investments in Chinese tech firms that are helping to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing and analytics among local companies, which are coming under increased pressure to differentiate as the number of consumers and mobile devices continue to grow at breakneck ...
Enterprise cloud spending to triple by 2017 : New markets emerge for software, analytics
Cloud spending continues to accelerate as large organizations move beyond test and development in pursuit of business agility and cost savings, a recent report by IHS Technology has reaffirmed. The research firm predicts that the market for “online storage, computing, analytics and provisioning services” will be worth $174.2 billion by the end of the year, ...
