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How One Massive School District Gets Efficient with EMC
EMC’s VNX unified storage and DataDomain deduplication technology are being used by The Toronto District School Board, the fourth largest district in North America, to achieve greater operational efficiency. TDSB supports 6,000 schools that are compromised by 250,000 students and 40,000 staff. Consultants from EMC’s Global Services business provided the “skills support and knowledge transfer” ...
This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More
There were a few big updates coming out of the big data ecosystem this week. Symantec upped its investment in analytics by launching an add-on for its Cluster File System that works with HortonWorks’ Hadoop distribution. The result is a product called Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop, which is free for existing customers and can ...
The Public and the Personal Cloud in the Spotlight This Week
VMworld 2012 is coming later this month, and VMware is already starting to up its cloud play to give customers plenty to talk about ahead of the gathering. This week the virtualization firm unveiled a very reasonable trial version of its vCloud management platform. For a few cents an hour prospective users can get their ...
How IBM’s Acquisition of Texas Memory Affects the Too-Hot Flash Market
IBM acquired the privately-held Texas Memory Systems in a move that could drive the other big vendors to dive right into the flash scene. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS is a firm that has been making storage systems for the past 34 years, and is now known mostly for its flash arrays ...
How Infrastructure, Data Enable the Leaderless Enterprise
Deloitte Consulting director John Hagel and Suketu Gandhi, the firm’s marketing head, co-authored an article with Forbes contributor Giovanni Rodriguez that takes a look into the merit of the CEO-less organization. This is a proposition that has gained a lot of traction thanks to social media-powered events such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring; ...
EMC Brings More Services to the Channel
Storage behemoth EMC is offering its distributors new resources to facilitate a higher margin, services-powered business model for resellers that work with its storage and backup solutions. More specifically Data Domain storage, Avamar deduplication software, and VSPEX bundles: midmarket appliances that are based on EMC’s VNX and VNXe series unified storage hardware. EMC’s Global Services ...
CIOs Say DDN is One of the “Most Strategic” Big Data Hardware Vendors
Storage solutions provider DataDirect Networks is touting a new survey by Pacific Crest Securities that ranked it as one of the top two strategic hardware supplies for big data. The research firm reports that nearly a fourth of the executives it surveys, 24 percent pointed at DataDirect as their number one choice for hardware that ...
Permabit Reigns in Storage Mobility, Top Trends
Market research firm Data Mobility named Permabit a Top Information Management and Storage Vendor in a recent report. The paper, which was written last month and recently made available on Permabit’s website, praises the company’s Albireo deduplication solution as a “crash course in cutting-edge data optimization” for the market that “leapfrogged existing data optimization technologies.” ...
Cassandra Propelled Forward by Determined Community
Cassandra is a NoSQL database management solution that spawned out of Facebook’s internal IT a couple years ago, and has built up a lot of momentum ever since. Last month theCube attended the Cassandra Summit, and Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly wrote up an overview about the state of the project with some of his observations from ...
HP Has Big Plans for Virtualized Networking, Targets Cisco
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard is looking to take a bit out of Cisco’s pie with three upcoming tweaks to its HP Converged Infrastructure that will introduce a strong software-defined networking component to the product line-up. The first two updates will be rolling out to HP’s 12500 Series data center switch. The first one due to launch ...
