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BlackBerry CEO brings in yet another former colleague to replicate Sybase turnaround
BlackBerry chief executive John Chen, credited with saving Sybase from its death spiral, is putting his old team back together in a bid to beat the odds once again and restore the struggling phone maker to its former glory. The leadership reshuffle kicked off in December with the appointment of John Sims, the former head ...
Wikibon defines Server SAN: the intersection of hyperscale, convergence and flash
The issues that are being tackled by web-scale giants today provide a glimpse of the challenges in tomorrow’s enterprise data center. In particular, the need to manage large volumes of information with minimum delay is driving the emergence of Server SAN , a new infrastructure paradigm that Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman places at ...
Cloudera: Impala is faster than Hive, and here are the numbers to prove it
Cloudera is on a journey to make Hadoop enterprise-ready, and central to that mission is the integration of enterprise capabilities into the Big Data stack. That includes high-availability, recoverability and business intelligent features like structured query, a gap that the company is working to bridge with Impala. Launched in October 2012 and released for general ...
IBM puts aside $1B for new dedicated Watson business
IBM is bolstering its commitment to bringing cognitive computing into the enterprise mainstream with a new business unit that will focus exclusively on commercializing Watson, the company announced at a recent New York event. The move, which follows a similar decision by Cisco to consolidate its Internet of Things offerings under a single division, underscores ...
Shrinking infrastructure : Protect data across hacker borders | #MITECIR
Al Berkley, the chairman of Princeton Capital Management, dropped by theCUBE at last week’s MIT ECIR Workshop to discuss the changing dynamics of cybersecurity and policymaking with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and guest host Charles Sennott. Berkley serves on the board of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a member-funded nonprofit comprised of CEOs and other ...
EMC’s Mat Allen on cyberthreats and the security leadership gap | #MITECIR
Data security has become a top priority for all sectors, but the majority of decision makers have not yet adjusted to this new reality, according to EMC security practice lead Mat Allen. He appeared on theCUBE at the recently concluded MIT ECIR Workshop to share his firsthand insights about the enterprise threat landscape with Wikibon’s ...
Uncertain road ahead for Internet governance | #MITECIR
In the interconnected era, policy makers can’t afford to lag behind technological change. Cyber security has become a national security issue, and now governance – or lack thereof – is emerging as a challenge to sustaining the growth and innovation spurred by the web. These were the talking points at last week’s MIT Explorations in ...
EMC veteran David Goulden lands CEO role
David Goulden, who was widely considered a top candidate to succeed EMC boss Joe Tucci before he pushed back his retirement to 2015, has finally been named CEO of the storage giant’s core information infrastructure. He previously served as the company’s president and chief operating officer. Goulden has been with EMC for 11 years, directing ...
Verizon and Oracle team up for software-as-a-service
It’s not easy being an underdog in the cloud business. Verizon is years behind the competition with its enterprise IaaS offering, while Oracle’s plan to refocus from legacy maintenance contracts to cloud services has barely even begun to materialize. Recognizing that they’re in the same boat, the two tech titans are combining their resources in ...
Apigee acquires InsightsOne to bake predictive analytics into API platform
Reigning in cloud fragmentation represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity for API management providers. But with the competition heating up, the fight for relevance is moving beyond abstracting programming interfaces. That’s the reason API management provider Apigee forayed into Big Data earlier this year with Apigee Insights, a Big Data offering that Apigee’s hoping to round out through their newly ...
