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Big Data, Hadoop Seep Into More Business, Services
There have been some notable highlights from the data analytics industry bubbling up this week, both from big, and relatively small players alike. The first update comes from EMC, one of the many companies attending at SIGGRAPH 2011. The reason the storage giant is at the annual graphic design conference was to demonstrate how its ...
EMC’s Newest Version of AutoSwap for Data Recovery
Storage giant EMC unveiled the latest version of its AutoSwap data recovery and protection software at the SHARE mainframe user event in Orlando today. The updated offering now comes with several major improvements, starting with extended support for the z/VM mainframe OS. The company also added what it calls EMC GDDR, or Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart, ...
Skytap’s New Cloud Orchestration Features
Cloud automation service provider Skytap announced the addition of two new cloud orchestration and configuration routing features to its Skytap Cloud lab manager today, with an aim of pushing up it a notch ahead of the rest of the market. Its competitors include Lab Manager and VMLogix. The first addition is a a cloud orchestration interface ...
AWS Outage Causes Web Services to Go Down Again
One of the biggest factors that hold back some companies from migrating to the cloud is the whole topic of reliability. The average uptime of cloud deployments has been observed to be higher than that of traditional ones, but, that doesn’t mean there iesn’t any margin for error. Last night Amazon EC2 and the Relational ...
Seagate Hybrid Drive is the Cloud’s Future
Hard drive maker Seagate announced it the one millionth unit of its Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, which the company introduced back in spring 2010 for use in laptops and gaming systems. The main reason the Momentus XT has seen so much success in such a short period of time is that, at its ...
Apprenda Closes $10M Funding Round, PaaS Going Strong
Apprenda, a PaaS for .NET, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by Ignition Partners. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates and High Peaks Venture Partners also participated. The company stated that the fresh capital will be used to accelerate product development, and expand marketing and sales efforts. Frank Artale, managing director ...
ElasticStack Joins the Open-Source Cloud Club
The vendor-agnostic, open-source cloud has been getting a lot of attention from both customers and companies that are developing initiatives around this topic. Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace and OpenStack are among those who are leading this growing trend, but they’re not alone. ElasticStack is a 2008 startup that is expanding in the U.S and Europe, offering ...
Where Android Loses Big: Service Costs
Consumer analytics startup ClickFox released a report that suggests that, at least in terms of how much it will cost a company to solve user issues, the iPhone has the lead over Android and BlackBerry. ClickFox analyzed support calls received by North American carriers, and found that it costs carriers about $46 million more ...
Fusion-io’s New Market – Digital Arts
Storage acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io is attempting to branch out, and the latest area the company is venturing into is digital arts. Fusion teamed-up NVIDIA, Thinkbox Software and Tweak Software to demonstrate how professional graphic design software, which has a tendency of being slow and clunky even on up-to-date machines, can run with ioMemory. The ...
The New Age of Services: Liquidware, NetApp Virtualize Solutions
Liquidware Labs, a VDI solutions provider that developed the Stratusphere and ProfileUnity offerings, has a new service to help customers make the most out of their virtual desktop deployments. In partnership with NetApp, the company is now offering a new consulting service to the latter’s customers and partners that is designed to help companies optimize their ...
