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OpenStack Summit highlights: SDN, Cloud and everything in between
The OpenStack ecosystem gets bigger with every meetup. This week’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong attracted a crowd of 3,000, along with dozens of vendors that leaped at the opportunity to show off their latest solutions. Arista Networks led the charge with the new 7000 X Series of programmable 10 GbE and 40 GbE switches. ...
Broadcom delivers unified management platform for enterprise Clouds
Further expanding its reach into the software-defined data center, semiconductor maker Broadcom has announced a new Gigabit Ethernet Controller that extends network programmability to storage and server infrastructure. The Broadcom BCM5725 is a high-performance controller that packs an array of advanced system functions, including automatic device and software discovery, update management and a set of ...
Aerospike and Internap take NoSQL to the Cloud for faster insights
The raw performance of flash storage has made the technology a popular option for real time analytics, a fast-growing Big Data use case driven by increasing demand for actionable insights. For businesses seeking to quickly analyze large volumes of data without having to make a large upfront capital investment, Aerospike and Internap are rolling out ...
IBM bolsters analytics lineup with cognitive computing capabilities
IBM promises to bring the power of Watson to the enterprise with a set of cutting edge solutions for collecting and analyzing information at scale. Announced this week during the company’s annual Information on Demand Forum, the new offerings aim to “help companies more easily predict and respond to opportunities and challenges hidden in data.” ...
GE jumps on crowdfunding bandwagon with OurCrowd
Generic Electric’s tech ambitions go beyond the realm of networked machinery and embedded sensors. GE Ventures, the conglomerate’s newly established investment arm, recently entered a co-investment agreement with Israel’s OurCrowd to back early-stage technology companies. Founded in October 2012 by serial entrepreneur Jon Medved, OurCrowd operates an equity-based crowdsourcing platform that lowers the barrier of ...
Top vendors flex Cloud muscle at OpenStack Summit
In three short years, OpenStack transformed from an IaaS experiment into a multi-purpose cloud solution for the enterprise, complete with a burgeoning partner ecosystem and production-grade capabilities. The open source platform has emerged as a threat to traditional data center vendors, boasting over 100 customers worldwide according to a newly released user survey. Dozens of ...
Moving away from Itanium, HP nudges customers toward x86 HA
Oracle isn’t alone in wanting to abandon Intel’s ill-received Itanium platform. A year after derailing the database maker’s plan to halt software development for the chip, Hewlett Packard is porting its Nonstop line of high-availability systems to x86 server architecture. Originally marketed under the Tandem brand, NonStop is used primarily by telcos and financial service ...
Paxata CEO on startup success and data preparation | #BigDataNYC
Being a data analyst isn’t easy. Keeping information flowing for decision makers requires specialized knowledge and expertise at investigating patterns in raw numbers – but for the most part, it involves cleaning, changing, organizing and validating data for processing. This tedious and largely manual task takes up as much as 80 percent of analysts’ time, ...
Hortonworks President talks open source innovation | #BigDataNYC
Hortonworks’ business model hasn’t changed “one bit” since it spun off from Yahoo in 2011, according to company president Herb Cunitz. Speaking at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded Big Data New York 2013 summit, Cunitz tells theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante that his firm is committed to delivering an open analytics stack for the enterprise. ...
WANdisco and Pivotal drive Hadoop adoption in the enterprise | #BigDataNYC
Technology alliances are becoming increasingly important for WANdisco as it pursues a distribution-agnostic strategy to carve out a slice of the fiercely competitive Big Data market, CTO Jagane Sundar noted in a recent discussion on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. Appearing alongside Saravana Krishnamurthy of Pivotal, the executive gave us with an in-depth view of his company’s relationship ...
