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It’s Day 1 of Hadoop Summit. VMware, Pentaho Jump in the Fray
Yesterday before the Hadoop Summit even started, co-host Hortonworks decided to debut its product. It launched the HortonWorks Data Platform that the startup touts as a more stable and, more importantly, a partner-centric distribution of the big data-munching software. There’s also strong cloud support in the form of a high-availability edition that is integrated with ...
Latest Big Data Trends Revealed with Jaspersoft Q2 Index
Business intelligence software firm Jaspersoft operates JasperForge.org, a community site that, among other things, allows developers to download open-source big data technology. That covers pretty much all of the Apache projects associated with Hadoop, as well as many others, and Jaspersoft is making the most of it. The company tracks monthly connector downloads and provides ...
George Crump Discusses Dell and the Future of Storage in theCube
George Crump of Storage Switzerland attended this week’s Dell Storage Forum and stopped by theCube for a chat with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. In just over 20 minutes the two analysts managed to cover a number of different topics in surprising depth (full video below). Crump started by noting his personal observations this year: Dell is ...
Hadoop Summit 2012: New Products and New Insight
The fifth annual Hadoop Summit is a two-day event that will kick off tomorrow, and it’s also one of the two events that we’re covering this week. Event co-host Hortonworks and a few partners decided that they won’t be holding off their biggest updates until the gathering to starts, and as a result we’ve already ...
Analytics Marathon Starts Ahead of Hadoop Summit 2012
Yahoo and HortonWorks are hosting the fifth annual Hadoop Summit this week, and the floodgates are already open. A day before the conference kicks off the firm already took the opportunity to announce two major developments, including the launch of its first actual product. In spite of the hype since its foundation last year, so ...
Cisco Channel Expands into Converged Infrastructure, Energy Management
Cisco has a huge partner base that reached a couple of milestones this week, thanks to a new partnership with NetApp, as well as a handful of updates from the Cisco Live gathering. Just a day after we’ve learned of the OEM agreement with Fusion-io the networking behemoth is teaming up with NetApp to promote ...
Broadcom’s CTO of Networking on Dell, Smart Networks and SDN
Nick Ilyadis is the chief technology officer for Broadcom’s networking and infrastructure group; he’s also attending this week’s Dell Storage Forum, and stopped by theCube to give his perspective on the event and the industry as a whole (see full interview below). The discussion started off with Illaydis’ personal opinion on Dell’s networking strategy. He ...
Fusion-io Lands Big OEM Contract with Cisco
Fusion-io‘s hardware runs fast. A guest post published on SiliconANGLE not too long ago went over some of the real-life improvements that can be achieved in a storage environment using company’s flash solutions, and this value prop is exactly what got Fusion to where it is today. It’s not only customers that identified this opportunity ...
The App Store Rivaling Facebook, Twitter at WWDC
Apple’s annual WWDC dev conference is underway, and while we can’t confirm whether or not the next iPhone is in yet, the company revealed some rather important figures concerning the App Store. Twitter has about 120 million accounts according to a recent survey, and Facebook is leading the charge with over 900 million users. Apple ...
What’s Hot at Dell Storage Forum: Analytics, Security and Automation
The Dell Storage Forum managed to attract hundreds of partners and even more customers, and this year the channel has come prepared to capitalize on the gathering. Already three Dell-related items crossed the wire, and more are continuously pouring in as the event kicks into high gear. Infrastructure analytics provider SwiftTest is releasing the latest ...
