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SuccessFactors Transitioning to HANA by Q3
SAP’s HANA in-memory big data appliance has come a long way in the past twelve months, and HR subsidiary SuccessFactors evidently had enough confidence in the platform to migrate its Workforce Analytics and Workforce Planning solutions. “The benefits are immediate and real for HR executives and business leaders,” said Dmitri Krakovsky, vice president of global ...
Microsoft, Google Cozy Up to iOS
Apple’s dominion over the mobile market been undermined as Android, and later Windows Phone 7, started to gain popularity and set out on the growth path they’re following today. All this competition resulted in a great deal of innovation, and piggybacking on a competing OS’s popularity is one novelty that never gets old. Throughout 2011 ...
Fusion-io All About Flash Gaming, Drecom is Latest Client
Flash storage giant Fusion-io has been tapping the gaming industry lately, releasing case study after case study covering various companies’ use of its ioDrive solutions. The newest is Drecom, a Japanese web portal that maintains social games in addition to mobile sites and other things such as RSS readers. The firm “Fusion-io’d” its database environment. ...
VMware Extends Desktop Virtualization Portfolio with Wanova
VMware signed an agreement to acquire an Israeli firm called Wanova, with the goal of enabling virtual desktop management on offline end point devices. This is according to a blog post from earlier this week by Scott Davis, the CTO of the virtualization giant’s VDI group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the ...
Precog’s Raises $2M for Drag ‘N Drop Analytics Interface
This week a startup called Precog that it received $2 million in a first round of funding led by RP Ventures, only three months after it came out of stealth at the Strata conference. The company offers a cloud-based platform that analyzes the unstructured data streams a developer is tapping into, such as social media ...
VisibleGains Puts the Pizzazz Back in Cloud Storage
The personal and enterprise cloud storage industry has become extremely crowded, and it sometimes seems that this scenario doesn’t leave all that much room for innovation. Dropbox and Box have claimed the lion’s share of this market, while the rest is split up between smaller players that often offer a service only slightly different than ...
Objectivity Claims Big Wins for NoSQL
Objectivity is a veteran database company that has been making software to help large enterprises manage their data since 1988. More recently they jumped aboard the NoSQL bandwagon, and now reports that its distributed object DB solution is becoming more popular than ever. The firm says that in recent months some 14 companies decided to ...
Rumble in the Cloud: SAP Makes An Investment in Procurement with Ariba
Business software maker SAP announced its latest multi-billion dollar deal today: the acquisition of Ariba. SAP has agreed to pay $45 per share, a 20 percent premium over ARBA’s closing price on May 21. The merger will have to go through the regular round of regulations before becoming official, and experts believe that the transaction ...
Head of Unified Storage Talks Consumption Models, Flash at EMC World 2012
Rich Napolitano, the president of EMC’s unified storage division, is attending the EMC World conference held this week and stopped by theCube to discuss a few of his favorite topics with Wikibon’s chief analyst Dave Vellante (see full video below). Napolitano dedicated some time to note the more positive energy of this year’s gathering, which ...
Talend Announces Greenplum Integration @ EMC World
Talend announced a major big data push at the EMC World conference held this week. The company, which makes data integration and management software, has integrated its platform with the entire Greenplum portfolio: that includes Greenplum HD, Greenplum MR, the Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) and the Greenplum Database. Big data has already caught on as ...
