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BlackBerry hires three SAP execs to lead transformation
John Chen, the man who proved doubters wrong after turning Sybase around and selling it to SAP for $5.8 billion, is now facing the biggest challenge of his career: repeating history with BlackBerry. The newly appointed CEO of the struggling mobile maker is facing the daunting task of staging a comeback in a market dominated ...
Attunity acquires SAP partner for a slice of BI, HANA
Attunity, a Massachusetts-based developer of data replication and loading software, is acquiring Hayes Technology Group to establish a presence in the SAP ecosystem. The German business intelligence giant boasts over 250,000 enterprise customers globally, a growing number of which are adopting the HANA in-memory database in pursuit of faster insights. Terms of the deal were ...
Cloudera and Amazon take Hadoop to the cloud
Cloudera and Amazon have joined forces to democratize Hadoop in the latest push to converge cloud computing and analytics, two of the hottest and most disruptive trends in IT. The pair announced the collaboration this morning, just days after Impala – Cloudera’s open source query engine for unstructured information – launched on Amazon Elastic MapReduce. ...
Cisco doubles down on edge devices with VDI + collab
Bolstered with a dedicated Internet of Things divison, Cisco is extending its reach into the connected universe through new solutions for accessing and managing files across multiple devices. The networking giant on Tuesday pulled the curtains back on a desktop-as-a-service product designed to help cloud providers differentiate in the cutthroat SaaS market. Based on Cisco’s ...
IBM: machine learning to revolutionize our lives, disrupt retail
In its latest “5 in 5” forecast of trends that will change the way people interact with technology, IBM names cloud computing and machine learning as the innovations that are poised to make the biggest impact on our lives, potentially even helping traditional retailers get back in the saddle. First on the list is personalized ...
WANdisco takes version control to the next level with SVN MultiSite 1.2
WANdisco, a provider of high availability solutions that’s making a name for itself in the Big Data space, is now simplifying version control for geographically dispersed teams with SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2. Like the company’s Non-Stop Hadoop offering, which recently got certified for Cloudera’s CDH4 distro, the software leverages homegrown active-active replication technology to make ...
MuleSoft beefs up Cloud integration service with enterprise features
MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based API connectivity startup, has updated its CloudHub service to provide better support for enterprise use cases that involve both in-house infrastructure and off-premise applications. The new release of the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering packs a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) option that provides an isolated environment encrypted by a ...
Dell funnels $16M into end-point security startup
Invincea, a cyber security vendor that focuses on combating zero-day attacks, has received $16 million in equity from Dell Ventures and Aeries Capital. Existing backers Grotech Ventures, Harbert Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures also participated in the round, which brings in the firm’s total funding to an impressive $26.2 million. The Series C investment was ...
QLogic certifies adapters for software-defined storage
The emerging software-defined storage space hit a new milestone on Tuesday after QLogic announced that it has added support for DataCore’s SANsymphony-V virtualization offering. Pegged as the “first, and only, true storage hypervisor,” the platform aims to streamline operations through improved manageability. QLogic’s FlexSuite 2600 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapters and FabricCache 10000 Series ...
HP expands HAVEn ecosystem
Hewlett-Packard entered the Big Data platform race in June with HAVEn, an integrated offering that combines Hadoop with technology from Vertica and Autonomy in a unified platform for analytical applications. It features more than 800 connectors for structured, multi-structured, and unstructured data sources, as well as expanding software ecosystem that returned to the limelight at ...
