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Analytics pioneer GoodData adds automated expertise
With Hadoop and NoSQL technologies maturing, massive data storage services like Amazon RedShift appearing, enterprises moving from proof-of-concept to Big Data production implementations and Internet-of-Things (IoT) a growing reality, the focus in the Big Data market is shifting from capturing data to analyzing it. The old style data analysis, which required programmers to write queries, ...
SoftLayer founder Lance Crosby leaves IBM
Lance Crosby (right), founder and CEO of SoftLayer, who came to IBM when Big Blue acquired the company in 2013 and made it the center of IBM’s business cloud architecture, will leave IBM as early as Friday. The announcement comes just weeks after IBM reorganized its cloud businesses into a new business unit with 30-year IBM veteran ...
CIO Angle: Oracle declares war on EMC, VCE
Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison turned what was expected to be a routine announcement of the latest generation of Oracle/Sun Microsystems X5 Engineered System last Wednesday into a declaration of war on EMC and its converged systems partnership with Cisco called VCE. Oracle will sell its latest generation X5 Engineered Systems hardware, which is ...
Oracle goes for heart of the data center with low-cost, high-performance converged systems
Oracle Corp. is going after the core of the data center with the latest generation of its Engineered Systems, offering much higher performance at what it says is half the price of comparable systems from industry leader VCE Co. LLC. It also will sell its latest, multi-petabyte flash system at one-third the cost of the ...
Medical center finds flash rewrites the rules of data storage
For most organizations, Big Data is still a future technology. In medicine, and in particular for major medical centers that combine advanced treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer with research, it is a present-day reality. The grainy grey-scale snapshots produced by medical imaging equipment just a few years ago are now full color, three-dimensional, high-resolution ...
HP targets verticals with ruggedized tablet line
Hewlett-Packard Corp Inc.’s Personal Systems Division today announced a new set of mobile devices including tablets designed to meet the special needs of specific verticals. The tablets come with security, software and services designed for mobile. These tablets are designed specifically for the needs of office workers and markets in which consumer consumption devices have proven ...
New IBM mainframe designed for analytics and mobile
IBM today is announcing a new mainframe, the System z13, designed for very high volume, high security transactional environments in an increasingly mobile world. Watch theCUBE from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET to see the detailed announcements and interviews from the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City. The new system can process up ...
CIO Angle: IBM creates cloud group in market-focused shakeup
IBM is creating a new, vertically aligned, market-focused cloud business unit as part of what appears to be a bigger reorganization, according to company insiders and IBM watchers. The company itself has made no announcement, but Bloomberg initially reported creation of the new business unit, to be headed by Robert LeBlanc. LeBlanc was formerly senior ...
IBM scientist: ‘Data without borders’ to transform our storage world
Doctors without Borders and Journalists without Borders were both in the news last year, but 2015 could add a new nomadic concept: data without borders. That’s what IBM Fellow and Storage CTO Vincent Hsu (below left) predicts. As data volumes grow and Big Data analysis involving data from multiple sources moves from test to production, ...
Wikibon forecasts Hadoop-NoSQL market to hit $3 billion by 2017
The combined Hadoop-NoSQL market will exceed $3 billion in revenues in 2017 predicts Wikibon’s “Hadoop-NoSQL Software and Services Forecast, 2013-2017”. What’s driving growth is a major shift away from traditional relational databases such as Oracle and Teradata to Hadoop-based technologies, often used with NoSQL databases, writes Wikibon Big Data lead analyst Jeff Kelly. Recent evidence ...