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SiliconAngle News Briefs for 27 June 2013
HP Enhances Partner Program HP has announced enhancements to its PartnerOne program to help its business partners accelerate growth and profitability and strengthen their competitive differentiation in the market. The changes will take effect on November 1 and include a simplified structure that offers a predictable and profitable compensation model. It streamlines certification requirements across ...
SiliconAngle News Briefs for 26 June 2013
Zettaset, Informatica Partner to Drive Value from Hadoop Deployments Data integration software vendor Informatica Corp has announced an OEM partnership with Zettaset, a provider of secure Big Data management. Zettaset is embedding the Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition within the Zettaset Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management system, which automates, accelerates, and simplifies Hadoop installation, cluster management, ...
Support for Oracle on Hyper-V Good for All Concerned, but Especially Microsoft
Monday’s announcement of an agreement that provides full Oracle support for its products on Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure environments is good news for Oracle, Microsoft, and the users of their products, writes Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Alert. It certainly is a huge boost for Microsoft. Two years ago Hyper-V was a “running joke” ...
Cloud Adoption Growing Fast and Not Just in Enterprises
Cloud adoption is growing at greater than 25% CAGR says Jane Munn, cloud business line executive for IBM’s Systems & Technology Group. And that growth is not confined to online services & large enterprises. SMBs are a definite growth market that IBM is working with its partners to tap. Implementation strategies are highly individualistic, however, ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 25 June 2013
Midokura Announces Integration with Apache CloudStack Network virtualization startup Midokura has announced integration of its flagship MidoNet technology with Apache CloudStack, available immediately. MidoNet is a disruptive network virtualization technology that virtualizes the network stack for cloud platforms, a decentralized, multi-layer, software-defined virtual network system specifically designed for IaaS. It adds automation that significantly reduces ...
Oracle to Support its Products on Microsoft Hyper-V — First non-Oracle Hypervisor it Officially Supports
In a surprise move, Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have announced that Oracle products, including Java, the Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic, are certified for Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows Azure. This means that Oracle will provide full support for customers running those, and presumably other Oracle products, on Hyper-V. This is a complete reversal ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for 24 June 2013
NASCAR Turns to HP for World’s Best Racing Infrastructure NASCAR has selected HP to help it develop the technologies for an advanced racing infrastructure and organization. It named HP “Official Technology Partner” in accelerating innovation and adoption of cutting-edge technology in motor racing. It will build the collaboration around the Fan and Media Engagement Center ...
Watson in Healthcare Goes Live at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, WellPoint
One of the most exciting, if expected, pieces of news from the IBM Edge conference in early June was the announcement by Samuel Nussbaum, MD, EVP of Clinical Health Policy & Chief Medical Officer at WellPoint, that IBM Watson is being used to treat lung and breast cancer patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and ...
GE Enters Industrial Internet Market with Platform, Analytics
General Electric’s new Industrial Internet Big Data management platform and the “Predictivity” analytic applications built on it promise to move its customers’ maintenance strategies from break/fix to a proactive model based on the ability to identify and remedy problems before they become acute, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. As the world’s largest manufacturer ...
Industrial Internet Promises High Value Business Data
All Big Data is not created equal, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly, and Industrial Internet data is more equal than other kinds. This data, he writes in “The Industrial Internet and Big Data Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges” “holds more potential business value on a size-adjusted basis than other types of Big Data associated ...