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EMC’s Flash Strategy is First About the Concept of Data Decay
EMC is betting that data velocity demands more than spinning disk. We know that much. The real question comes down to how fast the storage company can pivot to beat fast growing providers like Fusion-io and Violin Memory. It’s this unanswered question that makes EMCWorld one of the more closely watched events of the spring conference ...
SAP Annnounces Free HANA Developer Images on Amazon Web Services
Over the past week, SAP and Amazon Web Services announced a number of alliances. Earlier this week, SAP said they would sell Afaria, its mobile management software, on the AWS Marketplace. Last Friday, SAP and AWS announced that SAP customers can now deploy their SAP solutions on SAP EC2 instances in production and non-production environments ...
SAP HANA Now the Biggest In-Memory Database in the World
SAP rolled out a list of new enhancements, features and integrations for SAP HANA today, demonstrating how SAP is treating it as a foundation for growth and acceleration of its core technology. Perhaps most significant is the news that SAP HANA stands as the world’s largest in-memory database. It can handle ten billion records, 100 ...
What is the SAP Cloud? For One Thing – Amazon Web Services
SAP announced its second deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday. In this latest round of new, SAP said they would sell Afaria on the AWS Marketplace. Last Friday, SAP and AWS announced that SAP customers can now deploy their SAP solutions on SAP EC2 instances in production and non-production environments for both Linux and ...
Understanding the Hana App Cloud and its Difference to the SAP Cloud Strategy
The HANA Application Cloud is an insightful topic to explore as SAP SappireNow gets started in Orlando today. It points to HANA’s progression in the cloud and how it fits with SAP’s overall cloud strategy. Richard Hirsch’s post about understanding the HANA Application Cloud is a good primer to understand the differences between the HANA ...
Will Axcient Become a Super SaaS with it’s Apple Like Time Machine?
There are a number of companies that have taken a big chunk of market share from incumbent legacy giants. These are the super SaaS providers. The ones like Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Workday that have succeeded in building significant businesses by focusing on the weak spots of the slow moving titans. I run across a few that ...
PureSystems: Not Just About Storage but a Foundation for IBM Software and Cloud Strategy
PureSystems will become a foundation pillar of IBM’s software and cloud strategy, even more so than the company’s effort to offer true multi-tenant services through the IBM SmartCloud.That much became apparent in the last week as IBM began to talk through what role Pure Systems will play in its Websphere strategy. “IBM is far more ...
Update: EMC Makes It Official, Confirms Acquisition of XtremIO
EMC has made it official. The storage giant is acquiring XtremIO. The company issued a press release this morning with few details about the acquision, which is reported to be about $430 million. XtremIO is a pure-flash provider. To learn more about the acquisition, see our coverage here and here. XtremIO does complement the range ...
EMC Reported to Buty XtremIO for $430 Million
EMC has reportedly acquired pure flash storage company XtremIO for $430 million. The Globes, an Israeli business news site, reported the news today. EMC nor XtremIO have made an announcement about the acquisition. Reports surfaced last month that EMC had its sights on XTremIO. With the acquisition, EMC is validating the fast growing pure flash ...
2 SAP HANA FAQs
John Appleby leads business analytics and technology at Bluefin Solutions, a consulting firm that helps clients optimize SAP technology. Seeing that SAP SapphireNow is next week in Orlando (theCube will broadcast live from the show), I thought it would help to point out two FAQs Appleby developed for SAP HANA. The first is a FAQ ...