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10Gen Raises $42 Million to Bolster MongoDB and Battle for the Database Market
The disruption in the database market is fully apparent today with the news that 10Gen has received $42 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates and existing investors. 10Gen develops MongoDB, the open-source NOSQL database. It provides a subscription service, support and training for the fast growing database technology. The investment marks a new chapter for ...
Yo CIO – Just Innovate, Would You?
CIOs don’t want to listen to the innovators message that urges them to let 1,000 projects bloom. But maybe the approaching bombs will get their attention. The choice became readily apparent at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium last week when MIT Media Labs Chief Joichi Ito took the stage. According to Information Week, he exhorted ...
Amazon Web Services Launches Export Service for VMs but Getting Application Data Out Remains Elusive
Amazon Web Services has announced a service that allows customers to export previously imported EC2 instances back to on-premise environments. That’s a shift that will send ripples throughout the market and bolsters the argument for a federated cloud that allows for the free flow of data across multiple clouds. But that is not exactly what ...
The Dream of the 90s is Alive in the Flash Market
“Hey Dave, so you’re back from Vegas.” “Yeah, Alex, it was unreal.” “Really?” “I have a lot to tell you.” “You know, Violin Memory, right?” “Yeah.” “Well, the founder, Don Basile, he came onto theCube this week at EMC World and basically said the dream of the 90s is alive in the flash market.” “No ...
EMC’s M&A Strategy Dictates XtremeIO and Syncplicity to Become $1 Billion Businesses
EMC guides its strategy according to what it calls its “triple play.” It serves as a framework to run the company internally and guide its way in the market. According to EMC CFO and Executive Vice President David Goulden,that means three things: Make sure the business is growing in the overall market and increasing its ...
Already, HP Employees Getting Recruited on Twitter
Developers are especially hard to come by. So now here comes the news that HP s laying off 27,000 people or 8% of its workforce. Already, the word is going out that tech companies want to to talk to the HP developers and engineers looking for work now that the company is laying off 27,000 ...
Why HBase is Significant and What it Needs to Grow
Today marks a milestone for HBase. Its inaugural event sold out with about six hundred people in attendance. Most events get 100 to 150 people in an inaugural event. But consider the circumstances and you can see why HBaseCon sold out and what it represents about the significance of this real-time database in the larger market: ...
Big Data Can Be a Beast But it Can Be Tamed [Infographic]
Big data – the term is over used and at the same time intimidating. It’s a reminder of the power and the overwhelming nature of a wave that can wash out a community or any natural force that possesses a quality that is greater than our one self. But like anything big, we can find ...
EMC Acquires Syncplicity – A Move to Blur the Private and Public Cloud
EMC acquired Syncplicity today for an undisclosed amount. The news comes in the midst of EMC World, where speculation about the company’s next acquisition has been the talk of the event. It’s the second acquisition for EMC in the past two weeks. On May 10, EMC announced its acquisition of XtremIO, a pure flash storage provider. ...
How In-Memory and Flash Compare to Relational Databases and Legacy Storage
Last week at SapphireNow I had a great chat with Lloyd Palfrey, a senor technical architect with Bluefin Solutions, one of the leading SAP services firms. I caught up with Lloyd at the bar (where the talk gets better as the night goes on) and had one of those conversations that gives a whole different ...