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Roambi brings data visualization to Android
Mobile-based visualization engine Roambi today announced the availability of its visualization package on the Android platform. Roambi also announced a partnership with online security company Okta, which provides single sign-on services. The Android version of the visualization tool is intended to emulate the features and functions of the company’s flagship iOS product as closely as ...
Expert says IBM-Lenovo deal is on cruise control
Users “are in the driver’s seat” in the new IBM-Lenovo partnership writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in his Professional Alert “Impact of the IBM Lenovo Agreement on PureSystems, Storage and Beyond”. Miniman quotes IBM SVP and Group Executive of IBM Software and Systems Steve Mills in an interview on theCUBE saying that the IBM’s ...
Discover Conference’s message: HP is back
HP Enterprise Group EVP Bill Veghte kicked off the first day of the company’s Discover conference in Las Vegas last week by crowing, “HP is back.” Three days later, Wikibon Chief Analyst and theCUBE co-anchor David Vellante summed up his impressions of the conference by agreeing. “I’m excited about HP,” he said. HP’s culture of invention, ...
Vendors fret as Hadoop encroaches on lucrative data warehouse business
Hadoop is encroaching on data warehouse (DW) territory, and database vendors are rightly concerned about the threat to their high-margin business, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. At the recent Hadoop Summit, data warehouse vendors IBM, Teradata, Microsoft and Oracle were pushing the idea of Hadoop as a junior adjunct to the data warehouse, claiming ...
OnApp globalizes public cloud offerings, doubling rival AWS locations
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider OnApp today announced the OnApp Federation, a worldwide public cloud running on the hardware infrastructure of its 167 service provider customers. The network offers compute resources in 170 locations covering 113 cities across 43 countries (see map below). The heart of the cloud is an online market that allows OnApp’s 900 service provider customers ...
Flash + tape = 50 percent savings for IT
While numerous new technologies, from virtualization to converged infrastructures, have promised, but not always delivered, saving in IT operational costs, one radical architecture can tame the IT budget. Providing 50 percent savings in the area with the most cost growth – storage – and help CIOs shift resources from keeping the lights on to investing ...
A sleeping storage giant awakes : Is IBM ready to take on EMC? | #IBMEdge2014
The big questions at IBM Edge 2014 this year were, did IBM mean what it said a year ago about becoming aggressive in the storage industry, and if so, can it actually win back a significant share of the market that it once dominated and lost to EMC? The answer to the first question is ...
Looming questions @Hadoop Summit : Forking, skill gaps + more
Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 3) theCUBE begins three days of in-depth coverage of Hadoop Summit in San Jose, California. The event, and theCUBE’s coverage, comes at an important point in the brief history of Hadoop, and several questions hang over the still immature technology. Both attendees and others interested in Big Data but unable to get ...
OpenStack ecosystem sees momentum + friction | #OpenStackSummit
The OpenStack Summit in May painted the platform as a work in progress with momentum and investment by vendors led by Red Hat, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace. “OpenStack is real,” said John Furrier on theCUBE at the end of the Summit, earlier this month (see embedded video below). A series of developers interviewed in theCUBE ...
Chambers declares war on VMware
Cisco CEO John Chambers has declared war on VMware. In a recent call to the financial analysts he termed VMware “enemy number 1 for Cisco” and vowed to “crush” VMware’s software-defined networking (SDN) product, NSX, in the market, said Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in a discussion on theCUBE from IBM Edge this week ...