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This Week in Big Data: Hadoop Summit, AvatarNode
This week Yahoo and Hortonworks, a spin-off from the internet portal operator, hosted the fifth annual Hadoop Summit. The press floodgates were opened even before the vendors had a chance to settle in their booths. The day before Hadoop Summit kicked off, Hortonworks announced its highly anticipated first product: The Hortonworks Data Platform. It does ...
Juniper’s New QFabric Arrives as Networking Firm Buys Back $1B in Stock
The hype around Juniper Networks’ QFabric architecture was pretty intensive when it launched last year: the concept of simplifying the networking and consolidating the different layers had, and still has a lot of appeal. And the company is looking to preserve the momentum as much as possible by the looks of it, now that it ...
This Week in the Cloud: Big Events, Flash and Mobile
This week featured the 2012 Dell Storage Forum, an annual gathering that, this year, represented a very solid commitment to storage on behalf of the vendor. The company backed this strategic shift with a number of product announcements. Dell announced a number of new solutions including the M1000e rack, an all-in-one box that couples PowerEdge ...
Infochimps a Key Contributor to Serengeti and Not Shy about It
Infochimps is a big data firm that is known for its analytics platform, as well as the data set and API market it operates. The company is also behind a number of open-source innovations such as the Ironfan configuration tool, one that is a very important element of VMware’s new Serengeti project. Serengeti is an ...
Fluid Data is More than a Marketing Term for Dell
Bob Fine is the director of mobile marketing for Compellent, and he dropped by theCube with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman during the Dell Storage Forum this week. The first thing he decided to address was fluid data, one of the biggest topics at the gathering. He stressed that it’s more than just a ...
Dell Storage Forum Recap: The Strategic Shift and Latest Wave of Innovation
This week’s Dell Storage Forum can definitely be categorized as a big milestone for the company’s hardware line, which is currently undergoing a major shift across multiple fronts. First and foremost, storage is becoming a much bigger focus for Dell, and it shows. Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman talked about the relatively fast-paced shift in ...
SAP Makes a Move on End Users with Collab and Analytics
Business software make SAP is targeting business users and entrepreneurs in particular with a number of newly announced initiatives that rely heavily on partnerships. The firm revealed an update for the SAP StreamWork enterprise sharing app, introducing integration with Mikogom, a different kind of collaboration service that has the potential of introducing a lot of ...
NetApp Makes Big Data Push with Hadoop Box, Data Protection
NetApp stepped up its big data play a notch at this week’s Hadoop Summit, where it introduced a couple of new offerings that will undoubtedly reinforce the company’s foothold in this space. The first update is that the storage vendor has entered into a strategic alliance with Hortonworks to flesh out HDC, the partner-centric Hadoop ...
Thismoment Raises $22M to Further Solidify Social Marketing Position
Social media is a huge market that branches out across several different areas, and enterprise is among them. Thismoment is among the more prominent vendors that managed to capitalize on an organization’s need to manage its presence across Facebook, Twitter and mobile, evidently getting the attention of VCs along the way. Today the company announced ...
Chris Hansen of Gordon College Discusses Compellent On Campus
Chris Hansen is a systems manager at Gordon College, a title that involves managing the storage, replication and backup and recovery –as well some application level processes- across three different facilities. Gordon has been a Compellent for about 6 years and Hansen, who’s been around for four, believes that was a very good decision. He ...
