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Small businesses feel the effects of EMC-Dell merger | #DellWorld
Data centers are often beyond the purchasing power of smaller companies, but that is starting to change. As easily expandable options become available through Nutanix, Inc., businesses like Southwest Bank have been able to eliminate on-site servers in favor of remote access. The company operates a highly centralized main office with one desktop tech that ...
Dell Blueprints allow for choice, rapid deployment | #DellWorld
Thanks to the EMC merger, Dell, Inc. has become a “powerhouse of enterprise” with the ability to provide storage, compute and open network to both mid-sized and large enterprise companies. And with VMware, Inc., Dell plans to continue growing the trend to offer more stack-based solutions for Big Data and Cloud. Currently, Dell Blueprints are available ...
Future ready: Tracking the shift to a pull-oriented market | #DellWorld
Being “future ready” is the hottest trend in the technology marketing, as opposed to promising to “future-proof,” as was the practice previously. Areas where the industry is seeing these trends the most are Big Data, social, cloud and anayltics. The question surrounding these develops is how to blend traditional IT and new practices without it ending ...
Mobility challenging in non-traditional cloud environments | #DellWorld
While Amazon has made the most strives in on-site cloud technology, Dell, Inc. makes a formidable opponent in nontraditional cloud environments, like countries without conventional infrastructure. With Dell, “the disadvantaged user can … take cloud anywhere,” according to Cameron Chehreh, CTO at Dell Federal. Although Amazon has “validate[d] the cloud” in the market, Dell’s “value ...
Grace Hopper Celebration: An initiative that began in a bathroom | #GHC15
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Inc. has been inspiring women in the computing world since 1994 by putting on the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Event. The first one was attended by 500 people in Washington, D.C. This year’s event hosted more than 12,000 attendees. Surprisingly, the origins of the event can ...
Looking toward a future when diversity is the norm | #GHC15
“Your potential is only limited by your mind,” declared Isis Anchalee, platform developer at OneLogin, Inc. Anchalee ought to know, as her second ever Tweet went viral. The progenitor of #ilooklikeanengineer is a self-professed college dropout, who taught herself to code and now “earns a shit-load of money … with zero school debt.” Anchalee said ...
Will Spark replace MapReduce? | #pworld15
As analytics accelerate closer to real-time, historical analytics are not being displaced. The benefits of a comprehensive and historic view of data is becoming more than just a daydream. Imagine a problem with a fleet of vehicles. Would current information and stats be the only aspect an analyst might look at? Wouldn’t the history of ...
Frictionless data-sharing goal for non-profit | #GHC15
The Center for Open Science (COS) is simultaneously a mission-based non-profit and a tech start-up with the goal of providing free data. Open data is so important because tons of money is used to get it, but some research will not have the same viewpoints. Therefore, a fresh perspective can provide new conclusions from the ...
Hitachi wants to dominate in IoT | #pworld15
Solving the Internet of Things (IoT) problems is a major priority for Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (HDS), as demonstrated by its recent acquisition of Pentaho Corp. The Japan-based company built a relationship with Pentaho based on “mutual interest” while Hitachi looked at “hundreds of companies” that handled IoT and Big Data. “There was simply no question ...
Making data actionable: A 360 customer view | #pworld15
Since the first data warehouses, companies have been striving for the so-called “360 customer view” on Big Data. Recent developments in the industry are building on the cost-effective innovations Hadoop refined. Rosanne Saccone, CMO of Pentaho Corp., said those innovations are “new, emerging streaming capability, like Spark” and Cloud technology, as data is in the Cloud. During ...