Provider of extreme data storage solutions, Data Direct Networks (DDN) scores two cornerstones this week: one with Genomics at Stanford University and the other involving cloud media. With big data and THE cloud penetrating the health industry, DDN has made its mark with its contributions to the Stanford’s Genomics Research Center through GridScaler Parallel HPC ...

Education defines character and builds nations. And, when you fuse education and information technology, you get learning at its finest. Furthermore, most academes clinging to tech updates look for the following: efficiency, simplified management system, cost savings and improved security. This is what the award-winning library in the city of Staunton in Virginia is gazing ...

As mobile payments become one of the industry movers, companies specializing in this platform will battle it out to the top, whatever it takes. Last week, the bigger Verifone fervently attacked Square and its security features via Facebook. Square and its executives cried foul over this public outburst of Verifone. VeriFone’s Chief Executive Douglas G. ...

Those who are looking to scale their noSQL solutions are now treading the path to Citrusleaf. This startup has wowed the tech community with its new approach to optimal storage and management system for handling big data brought on by the Internet Era. Following a $2 million Series A funding round, the California-based company ventures into real-time ...

The game is on at the largest and capital city of Finland. Startup Sauna, a program known for tracking potential startups within the Baltic and Nordic region, is bringing its search to Helsinki. Deadline of submission is on April 17th and winners will be awarded with an invitation at the Alto Venture Garage plus € ...

When data warehousing and analytics become two of the most essential segments of monetizing the colossal information every organization has, expect that giants will swarm to this wealthy environment. EMC’s quest of pushing big data analytics is possibly the strongest in the market today. Today, three new Greenplum products and a partner in SAS will ...

Social media is still going to be one of the strongest platforms to sell and promote anything, even jobs. This is what LinkedIn, a professional-oriented social networking site would like to pound on. With stiff competition, the company pushes to reinvent and innovate, even if B2B marketers already chose them as a social media priority–perhaps ...

All roads now lead to the Storage Networking World 2011 (SNW) in Santa Clara Convention Center, California. Industry heavyweights are expected to grace the stage in this year’s event with Randy Mott of HP, Steve Wozniak of Fusion-O, Jack Domme of Hitachi Data Systems and Dr. Krishna Nathan of IBM. But at press time, FCoE ...

With information technology shaping the world that we know today, the industry has been attracting all sorts of controversies, lawsuits and wrongdoings. Patent infringement has become a staple food of the industry. One of the more interesting cases worth following is the largest crackdown on hedge-fund insider trading in the history of the United States—the ...

The future of Big Data will define most industries that we know today, re-shaping business models and even rerouting the information technology course. Looking at it as a business challenge may also lead companies to monetize and create something very lucrative out of real time analytics of data, especially within the social media sphere. These interesting ...