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Could We See a VMware Cloud Spin Off with a Big Data Edge?
Unnamed sources leaked this week that VMware and EMC may spin off a few of their assets to form a new firm that will offer cloud services with a strong tie-in with Greenplum. The official announcement could arrive on July 23, when VMware will report its earnings for the last quarter, or later in August ...
Coraid’s New Servers for Video/Big Data Workloads
Ethernet SAN vendor Coraid announced a new family of products today that offers more scalability and more throughput to accommodate not only traditional workloads but also video and unstructured data. The Coraid ZX-Series NAS servers run the Solaris ZFS file system and pack a lot in one pitch. A ZX can be natively integrated with ...
Over 1 Million Accounts Compromised and $350k Stolen by Hackers in One Week
In the past week hackers managed to infiltrate no less than four major websites; and while users of three of these four sites only have to worry about more spam in their inbox and potentially someone else posting forum messages on their behalf, the users of Bitcoinica have taken some serious financial losses. The bitcoin ...
Objectivity Pushes Big Data in the Channel with InfiniteGraph Certification
Database software vendor Objectivity unveiled a new initiative today that’s meant to introduce partners to InfiniteGraph, a graph database that is known for being highly scalable. On top of that it’s written in Java, which means it can be used not just with modern NoSQL solutions, but also in legacy environments. The company released a ...
Huawei Aggressively Targets Storage Market
“Our business is changing, and our customers’ needs are changing. We need to enter these markets,” said Jeff Jiang, the head of Huawei‘s storage marketing. The Chinese ITC firm sells networking equipment to telcoms, and is now seeing a big opportunity to expand into the storage and server markets: enterprises are storing more and more data. Huawei ...
GM to Bring IT Talent-in House, $600M contract with HP at Risk
Auto giant General Motors is one of HP’s biggest clients. The company currently outsources about 90 percent of its IT needs, and its automobile business alone pays Hewlett-Packard $350 million annually. The firms also announced a separate deal in 2010 that is valued at $2 billion, and there’s also a third one on top of ...
Dell, Internet2 Reaches Milestone in Networking Project
Internet2 is a joint venture between about two dozen universities in the US that was started in the 90s’ with the goal of delivering the academia a better IP network. It raised about $100 million in funding to date and right now, the construction of an OpenFlow based software-defined network is the number one item ...
This Week in Big Data: VCs, Cloud All Over the Place
This past week featured a big push into the cloud by Kognitio, new from Fujitsu and Datameer and a couple of funding rounds. We can start with those. Clustrix offers database appliances that run the company’s distributed database on hardware that, among other things, includes a lot of flash. This combo makes for a big ...
Google+ for iPad Tops This Week’s Business Tablet App Roundup
A couple days ago Google debuted a G+ app for the iPad that is not merely a tablet-optimized social networking client, but also a very viable tool for business users thanks to one powerful feature. Hangout is a built-in video conferencing widget that allows for high-quality communications between peers using the network, and is joined ...
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, VMware and Open-Source
A number of updates were revealed this week, and out of the ones in this roundup three of them involve VMware in one way or another. The first one, however, comes from Cloudability, and it doesn’t involve the virtualization firm in any way. Cloudability makes software that monitors usage across IaaS and PaaS accounts. It ...
