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Cisco, NetApp Bolster FlexPod Lineup with Hadoop-based Configurations
Converged infrastructure is on the rise, and so is Big Data analytics. Cisco and long time ally NetApp put two and two together and expanded their jointly developed FlexPod lineup with two cutting edge Hadoop appliances. The newly announced FlexPod Select Series combines NetApp’s E-Series and FAS storage systems with Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, ...
App Annie Opens Flagship Analytics Platform for Enterprise Users
App Annie, the highly successful app analytics startup, just released the latest version of its flagship offering. The new edition introduces several features, including a mobile app that lets users to keep track of their apps’ performance on the go. The App Annie Analytics client application is joined by a set of APIs that enable ...
GridGain Raises $10 Million for In-Memory Analytics
GridGain, a Foster City, CA.-based distributed computing firm, just received $10 million in Series B financing from Almaz Capital and existing investor RTP Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to $12 million. GridGain sells a Java-based in-memory analytics solution for distributed environments. The offering consists of two components: GridGain In-Memory Compute Grid (IMCG,) ...
Michael Dell Sweetens the Pot for Shareholders
Michael Dell rescheduled the much anticipated shareholder vote on his company’s future for the second time this month in an effort to increase support for his modestly sweetened buyout offer. Dell and partner Silver Lake Partners bumped their bid by 10 cents to $13.75 per share, or $24.6 billion, and requested that the board committee ...
IBM’s New Linux Box Combines the Best of Watson + Open Source
IBM just pulled the curtains back on the PowerLinux 7R4, an open system that sports a scaled-down version of Watson’s brain. The 7R4 is a four socket, 32 core server designed for analytics, cognitive computing, web-scale applications and other CPU-intensive workloads that typically run in Linux environments. The system is available with IBM’s AIX and ...
Weekly Big Data Review: SQL Alternatives are All the Rage
This past week featured a number of Big Data developments. Cloudera released an open-source authentication engine for Hadoop, Google upgraded its Cloud Platform with new data management capabilities, and DataStax raised $45 million in funding to accelerate Cassandra development. EnterpriseDB also put itself in the limelight with new statistics that indicate the government is one ...
VMware Comfortably Beats Analysts’ Q2 Expectations
Virtualization may be becoming increasingly commoditized as vendors look to differentiate with services and management functionality, but this trend didn’t stop VMware from raking in a handsome profit this past quarter. On Tuesday, the majority-owned EMC subsidiary reported second quarter earnings of $244.1 million or $0.57 per share, up from $191.7 million in the same ...
IBM Chief Technical Strategist on Object Stores: Watch This Space
Clod Barrera, the chief technical strategist for IBM’s storage group, stopped by theCube at the recently concluded Edge 2013 conference to share his take on the bleeding edge technologies that are disrupting IT. TheCube host Dave Vellante mentions that the convergence of flash, metadata, and other trends is driving an unprecedented rate of innovation. Berrera ...
IBM’s Erik Eyberg Says Benefits of SVC Outweigh the Overhead
Eric Eyberg, the head of strategy and business development for IBM’s FlashSystems group, stopped by theCube at Edge 2013 to explain why the benefits of using SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in FlashSystem environments justify the added overhead. Flash solutions typically compromise on functionality in favor of performance, but that’s not the case with IBM’s offering. ...
EMC Blames Single-Digit Q2 Growth on ‘Weakened IT Spending Environment’
EMC posted record second quarter earnings Thursday morning, but analysts are not exactly pleased with the results. The storage juggernaut reported a net profit of $701 million or 32 cents a share, up 7.8 percent from the 29 cents a share it recorded in the same period last year but below the consensus estimate of ...
