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VMware Could Launch Project Octopus Later This Month
VMware debuted Project Octopus back in April. The service is the result of a joint effort between the virtualization kingpin and EMC Mozy, and is touted as “Dropbox for the enterprise.” Until now we only knew what it is, but today Bill Bliss, the head of VMware’s end user product development, hinted that that it ...
Putting the Work into Big Data, Caserta Concepts Teams with Cloudera
The newest member of Cloudera’s Connect Partner Program is Caserta Concepts, a consulting firm that offers services to enterprises that lack the in-house talent to implement a big data strategy. It’s the latest name to join an already lengthy list of SIs, service providers, OEMs and other partners that compromise Cloudera’s substantial ecosystem. This community ...
EMC’s Scanning Technology is More Popular Than Ever
Like many other vendors in the storage and infrastructure markets, behemoth EMC has been expanding its portfolio by upping its play in the cloud. However, EMC isn’t allowing that to take its attention from its older and less hyped assets like Captiva. It seems the continued attention is paying off. EMC has revealed that most ...
Node.js vs. Ruby on Rails: How They Fare in the Community
Both Ruby and Node.js are gaining a lot of traction but for different reasons, and the ecosystem is a huge factor when comparing the two. That was one of the main points Brilliant.ly Will Nathan made in an article a couple months ago. On the technical side Nathan notes that Rails has a much better ...
This Week in Big Data: Social Analytics, the Olympics & DDN Roll Out
Social networks represent a huge source of unstructured data, and Thismoment is among the vendors that help marketers make use of all that information to improve their brand image. The firm is one of the leading solutions providers in this field with over $33 million in funding raised to date, and it’s DEC platform is ...
Dropbox Gets Hacked, Box Gets Funding: This Week in the Cloud
Two of the biggest names in file sync had big updates this week – one disclosed more details about a recent security breach, and the other announced a massive round of funding that reaffirms just how big a phenomenon cloud lockers have become. Last month Dropbox users started seeing more spam in their inboxes, including ...
Fusion-io’s Flash NAS Software Makes your Servers Run 25X Faster
Shortly after flash storage pioneer Fusion-io acquired IoTurbine the company debuted what it called ioCache, a flash-based RAM substitute that comes in handy in high-performance analytics environments, and require a lot of juice. Now, Fusion debuted yet another solution based on IoTurbine’s caching software that’s even more buzzworthy. The Fusion ION acceleration platform turns the ioDrives ...
Silver Spring Launches On-Demand Smart Grid Service
Silver Spring Networks has been in the utilities’ software business for 10 years now. Although this industry is more often than not behind the curve in IT, the vendor is modernizing its portfolio. This week the firm announced a new service called SilverLink, a solution that aims to make the relevant information easily accessible to ...
EMC Turns to Lenovo as “Long-Term” Partnership Seeks Chinese Market
Enterprise solutions vendors EMC and Lenovo have formed what Rod Mathews, EMC’s senior director of business development calls a “symbiotic relationship” in an effort to enter the enterprise space in China. This emerging market is seeing increased demand for not only PCs and mobile devices, but also IT services, servers and storage. Saying that few ...
DDN Unveils Management Software for Analytics Environments
DataDirect Networks is offering a new consolidated management platform for customers of its SFA, 10K and 12K series systems. DirectMon can run in GridScaler and IBM GBFS environments, and is a part of a broader long term “analytics infrastructure direction” that will eventually cover a bigger portion of DDN’s storage portfolio according to a release. “DDN’s ...
