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Amazon Responds to Rivals (Again), Slashes Cloud Rates by 28%
This week Amazon introduced new price reductions for Reserved Instances that run Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Jeff Bar, the Chief Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, announced the good news in one of his latest posts on the company’s blog. The size of the discount varies per region: it goes ...
Dell’s Largest Independent Shareholder Says Privatization “Favors Management”
Southeastern Asset Management, Dell’s largest outside stakeholder, disapproves of the proposed $24.4 billion sale of the company to founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, a prominent investment firm. In a letter to Dell’s directors, Southeastern’s lawyers wrote that the board “appears to have dismissed better alternatives for public owners and selected a transaction, which ...
SAP Appeals to More Markets, on Pace to Hit $26 Billion by 2015
Bill McDermott, the co-chief executive officer of SAP, promised investors that the firm wills double its revenue by 2015 over a year ago. This week Jim Hagemann Snabe, the BI giant’s other co-CEO, reiterated his colleague’s pledge in an interview. The executive said that the company is set to reach the 20 billion euros mark ...
Scringo Launches Free Feature Repository for Mobile Developers
Scringo, an emerging mobile startup that aims to improve developer productivity, just launched its software into general availability. The company offers a platform-agnostic SDK that covers the “3 Rs” of mobile application development: reach, retention and revenue. Scringo’s feature repository includes components such as an activity feed engine, integration with Facebook and Twitter, and custom ...
EMC Puts its Name Behind New Flash Solutions, Based on XtremeIO Tech
It certainly is a big week for flash storage, with another PCIe launch today. This morning EMC announced new PCIe flash cards, a pure-flash architecture, and next generation software that will speed up caching in performance intensive environments. The former two offerings are based on technology the storage vendor obtained through the acquisition of XtremIO ...
Hortonworks Brings in eBay’s Data Expert as Hadoop Distros Demand Best of Breed Execs
Fresh of a big week of forward-thinking developments and a strategic partnership with Microsoft at Strata, Hortonworks just announced that it has appointed Bob Page as its new vice president of products. The release can be found here. Page has 17 years of experience in the analytics business. He founded a web analytics firm in ...
Violin Memory Prices New PCIe Chip to Win, Teams with Toshiba to Streamline Supply
It’s turning out to be a big week for flash. Violin Memory, one of the largest suppliers of SSD-based storage solutions, announced a new product line-up called Velocity. The lineup features three PCIe server cards with 1.37, 2.75, 5.5 and 11TB of raw storage. Now for the specs. Sustained performance using 4KB blocks measures at 120,000 ...
Seagate Pulls the Plug on Disk Lineup as Flash Performance Proves Better
Seagate just announced that it will stop producing of 7200RPM 2.5 inch disk drives. The manufacturer’s high-end Momentous 7200.4, 7200.2, Momentus Thin 7200, and Momentus XT drives will no longer by the end of this year. “We are going stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013,” said David Burks, ...
EMC the Only Big Player to Truly “Get” Big Data
And the Oscar goes to…Hadoop! The promising technology behind Big Data’s unwavering buzz was in the spotlight for an entire week during the Strata Conference last month, and now that we’ve had time to wind down from the festivities, we can reflect on Hadoop’s starring role in the enterprise. Abhishek Mehta, the founder of Tresata, recapped the ...
Cloud Wars: VMware Steps Up Its Campaign against Amazon
There’s a tug of war over the enterprise cloud. On one side is VMware with its licensed, private cloud offering, and on the other is Amazon, with its cost-efficient set of public cloud services. AWS is gaining a lot of traction with corporate users, thanks to a combination of a solid pitch and “rogue IT” – the name ...
