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Big Data Review: A Fresh Round of Product Updates, Investments
The biggest highlights in big data these past seven days included a couple of major announcements from SAP and Jaspersoft, as well as a big milestone for the NoSQL community and even bigger funding round for Continuuity. In addition to launching new solutions and adding Windows 8 support to a few of its existing BI ...
The Cloud Review: Big Investments, File Sharing Buzz
The past week had a few interesting updates, most notably that two vendors not known at all for veering away from their core markets made a couple of big investments in the cloud. First is Oracle. The database giant acquired a minority stake in Engine Yard, a PaaS service for web applications, just a month ...
HP Stock Falls to $11 After Q4 Autonomy Controversy
Hewlett-Packard’s stock plummeted 14 percent to a 10-year low of $11.54 this morning after the manufacturer posted financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012. SiliconANGLE Founder and Editor in Chief John Furrier has the scoop on what happened and when it happened – here. HP posted non-GAAP earnings per share of $1.16, more ...
Another Win for Apache Hadoop: WANdisco Buys AltoStor for $5M
Another win for Apache Hadoop. WANdisco acquired AltoStor, a Silicon Valley-based big data startup, for $3.6 million in cash and another $1.5 million in cash that will exchange hands once the deal goes through. The full release can be found here. WANdisco is publicly traded provider of clustering software that lists Disney, Wells Fargo, Lockheed and ...
Cisco Buys Networking Firm Meraki for $1.2B Acquisition
Cisco’s been on a shopping spree lately as the networking space aggressively takes on a rapidly transitioning demand for mobile connectivity. The industry leader acquired privately-held networking firm Meraki for $1.2 billion in cash, according to a release that went out this morning. The San Francisco-based startup sells switches, enterprise wifi, and management services to ...
EMC Gets Aggressive with Cloud Services Portfolio, Bundles with More Partners
Capgemini and EMC are offering government agencies a fully managed technological offering that couples the storage vendor’s technology with Capgemini’s outsourcing services. The two firms announced the solution at EMC’s Momentum conference last week. The joint venture, which goes by the name of Case-as-a-Service, is based on EMC’s Documentum, Captiva and Document Sciences software. It ...
CSC Lands Lucrative Flight Simulator Deal with U.S. Army
The U.S. Army has awarded CSC with a firm, fixed price contract valued at up to $34 million, counting in the 6-month base period and ten one-year options. Under the agreement, the Virginia-based consultancy will upgrade the Reconfigurable Collective Training Devices (RCTD) so that it can deliver a more accurate simulation of the OH-58D Block ...
DDN Invests $100M in Tomorrow’s Supercomputers
DataDirect Networks is convinced that current technology will not be able to keep up with Moore’s law in the coming years, so it set out to develop its own. The company is putting aside $100 million for the development of storage and software capable of supporting Exascale machines – an ambitious undertaking to say the ...
Easing the Big Data Transition,Capgemini Bets On HP Vertica
Capgemini and HP Vertica have entered into an alliance to help enterprises modernize their data infrastructure through a combination of services and software. The two firms promise to reduce analytical process from “hours to minutes, and minutes to seconds.” “Organizations struggle with turning massive amounts of structured, semistructured and unstructured data into business insights, cost ...
PwC Bolsters IT Services Business with Ray Group Buy
PwC’s U.S. division snatched up Ray Group International, a consultancy that specializes in providing technology services to the public sector. Terms of the deal, announced here, were not disclosed. Ray Group International’s new homepage states that the company maintains relations in “every cabinet agency,” including the DoD in areas. The firm offers advice on standard ...