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Hadoop-Based Datameer Raises $9 Million
Hadoop has been in the spotlight for the last few weeks, thanks to a number of launches and developments we’ll get to later. Today the news comes from Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solutions based on Apache Hadoop. Datameer, founded by Ajay Anad, former Director of Product Management for Hadoop and ...
HP Takes Milestone Leap with HANA, Financial Offering
Hewlett-Packard made a very significant announcement about two developments: it has launched a brand new financing offering, and its HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 systems are now among the first of its servers to be certified for running SAP HANA. SAP HANA on HP Converged Infrastructure, the two companies’ new big ...
How Secure is the Personal Cloud? Apple, Dropbox #FAIL
Some pretty major security concerns have been circling the cloud these past couple of months, and now Dropbox also got caught up in the loop. Christopher Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, claims that Dropbox has some serious privacy issues concerning user data, and asked the FCC to ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open Source Trends from Major Players
The cloud and big data are on a collision course, and that’s exactly what EMC World 2011 was all about. Open-source is a particularly hot topic these days, and alongside all the Greenplum developments and Hadoop launches, Rackspace has been benefiting from this accelerating market. The managed hosting provider has a very firm position in ...
Bento for iPad, Google Docs Primed for Business Tablets
Tablet apps have invaded just about every area possible, including the office. Businesses users represent a growing aspect of the mobile market, and as such, more and more developers begin to focus on the demand spurred from their direction. This week, SiliconANGLE put together a list of the top 5 workspace and productivity apps to ...
IBM Drives Big Data Trend with Tape Storage
At the same time EMC is holding its annual EMC 2011 conference in Las Vegas titled “Cloud Meets Big Data,” IBM made its own move in this space. This week, the veteran tech giant launched a brand new big data storage offering suit. IBM announced a whole line-up of tape-storage backup, enhanced archiving and deduplication ...
Jeremy Burton, CMO at EMC Talks Greenplum, Data Scientists
EMC’s CMO Jeremy Burton sat down at The Cube in the heart of EMC World 2011 to talk about his company, the cloud, big data and what it all has to do with new media and marketing.”We wanna make the message simple, we wanna make it memorable and we wanna make it stick” he said, ...
Cisco is Expanding, but Wall Street Exceptions are Low
Cisco has not been doing well in the last four quarters, throughout which its stock dived by over 30 percent. The networking giant is now busy doing some damage control and recovery, starting with CEO John Chambers recently eliminating the slow, council-based decision-making system that seems to have been holding the company back. Nevertheless, while ...
Juniper Networks Get Certified by DoD, Addresses Big Data Explosion
Cisco competitor Juniper Networks had a couple of updates in the past 48 hours. First of all, 15 routers made by the continuously growing networking company got certified by the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). These routers now belong to the Unified Capabilities Approved Product List (UC APL), which means they ...
EMC Leaders Demonstrate Big Data Analytics with Greenplum
Big data analytics is one of the hottest and fastest growing areas in the IT industry, and open-source is a trend that is becoming especially popular in this space. EMC COO and president Pat Gelsinger spoke at EMC World 2011, and provided a glimpse on how companies leverage big data analytics to gain business. Gelsinger ...
