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40% of End-Users Haven’t Heard of Virtualization
Virtualization may have revolutionized IT, but it won’t be winning popularity contests anytime soon. A new study commissioned by a group of Cisco mConcierge partners found that 40 percent of workers aren’t even familiar with the term – and that’s including IT personnel. About 53 percent of non-IT workers have never heard about the technology, ...
Microsoft’s TechNet Shutdown Hints to Inevitable Cloud Transition : CIOs Should Take Note
Earlier this month we reported that Microsoft plans to retire TechNet Subscriptions, a premium service that includes access to software, documentation, and other resources that can help IT practitioners work more productively. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, perceives the move as a harbinger of things to come. In the past, Microsoft depended ...
Seeking the Edge on Machine Learning, Cloudera Acquires Myrrix
Cloudera is bolstering its analytics lineup with the acquisition of Myrrix, a London-based startup that offers a “complete, real-time, scalable clustering and recommender system.” The solution is built on top of the Apache Mahout machine learning project, which in turn is based on founder Sean Owen’s open source Taste engine. Owen announced the buyout in ...
The Secret Ingredient to Startup Success? Craziness
Michael Wolfe, a serial entrepreneur who currently serves as the CEO of user relationship management firm Pipewise, raised a very good point on Quora. He theorized that “it is possible to create a good startup with a good idea, but great startups are often the result of ideas that would have seemed ridiculous if you ...
HP Adds Enterprise Superstars to Board of Directors
Hewlett-Packard announced this week that it has appointed three corporate giants to its board, raising the number of directors from nine to twelve. The new additions include Robert “Dob” Bennett, a principal of Hilltop Investments and the former CEO of Discovery and Liberty Media; Raymond Ozzie, former chief software architect for Microsoft and founder of ...
Telligent Takes Zimbra off VMware’s Hands
Zimbra is something of a hot potato. The email and collaboration specialist was acquired by Yahoo! a mere two years after its foundation, and got sold to VMware three years later in January 2010. This week, it exchanged hands once again. On Monday, enterprise social software provider Telligent announced that it has agreed to buy ...
Fusion-io Repositioning Ahead of Earnings Call
Flash memory juggernaut Fusion-io is set to announce its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 on August 7. The earnings report will shed new light on the company’s activity in recent months, namely its acquisition of NexGen and the high-profile management shakeup that left many analysts speculating about its future. In ...
Nutanix Engineer Explains Why His Company’s Appliance Makes Sense for Analytics
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson stopped by Nutanix’s booth at Hadoop Summit to bring you a fresh perspective on its flagship Virtual Computing Platform. Karthik Ranganathan, a member of the company’s technical crew and a former lead programmer at Facebook, walked him through the details. Ranganathan describes the solution as a converged infrastructure appliance ...
MicroStrategy’s Scott Cappiello on the Rise of Hadoop
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson caught up with Scott Cappiello, the vice president of product management for business analytics specialist MicroStrategy, at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. The two chatted about data visualization and MicroStrategy’s value proposition for enterprises that are implementing Hadoop in their environments. Cappiello observes that Hadoop Summit 2013 featured ...
MapR’s Chief Architect Addresses Data Analytics in the Traditional Enterprise
Hadoop has a long way to go before meeting the standards set forth by enterprise-grade software, according to MapR chief application architect Ted Dunning. He discussed the Big Data ecosystem and his company’s efforts to bridge the gap between the open-source community and the traditional enterprise in a recent interview with SiliconAngle Studio B host ...
