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Cisco Thinks It’s Video Chat is Better than Facebook for the College Crowd
Cisco has identified a new opportunity to promote its WebEx videoconferencing tool, this time in the academia. The networking kingpin just revealed a new version of the platform that’s targeting this segment with better communications, more integration and a few other tweaks you may not find in the enterprise version. WebEx Social for Higher Education is ...
NetApp Updates Storage OS with Flash Caching and More
NetApp announced major update to the E-Series platform that powers its data storage system this morning. The latest release introduces a number of enhancements that aim to make the software more attractive for enterprises that deal with CPU-intensive apps and massive amounts of data. The big deal here is flash caching. Support for SSD cache ...
HP Launches New StoreVirtual SMB Servers
Hewlett-Packard is targeting small-to-medium businesses with new storage arrays and software that promise to make virtualization and data warehousing easier for a reasonable price tag. The company extended its StoreVirtual line-up with two new models that run the latest version of its data center platform, LeftHand Operating System 10. StoreVirtual 4130 and 4330 Storage are ...
The Cassandra Way, According to DataStax VP
DataStax vice president of products Robin Schumacher and marketing head Lara Shackelford has a very solid take on big data as it stands today. The two executives believe that Apache Cassandra. The open-source platform on which their company’s portfolio is built, has a big role to play in this trend, and they told Wikibon analyst ...
Appcelerator’s 4th Acquisition Signals Ambitious Hadoop Plan
Appcelerator made its fourth buy in two years this week, with the acquisition of Nodeable, a small Hadoop startup with big ambitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed A few months ago Nodeable launched StreamReduce, a pre-processing solution that organizes data streams before they enter Hadoop. This extra layer makes MapReduce jobs considerably speedier ...
Big Data for the Little Guys: Beyond the Fortune 100
Colin Shearer, the head of IBM’s advanced analytics business, took some time off during his company’s IOD conference last month to discuss IBM’s upcoming subscription-based analytics service with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Analytics Answers, set to launch within the next few months, couples big data with the cloud to make this technology available to companies ...
Interview: How Nominum Makes DNS Data Work for the Enterprise
Daniel Blasingame, the general manager for Nominum’s embedded solutions business, recently stopped by theCube at IBM’s annual Information On Demand (IOD) event to discuss the connection between DNS and big data with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly. Nominum is a privately-held, VC backed startup that was founded 13 years ago in Silicon Valley. Its chief ...
Which Vendors Got it Right? The Shift from BI to Appliance-Driven Big Data
Mark Kettering, the chief executive officer of Brightlight Consulting, made an appearance on theCube during IBM IOD 2012, providing his take on the undying big data trend. Kettering founded his company eight years ago and has worked in IT for 30 years, granting him the opportunity to witness the transition from traditional business intelligence to ...
VMware Strikes Mobile Virtualization Partnership with Motorola
VMware started seriously pushing Horizon Mobile at this year’s VMworld conference, when it announced separate agreements with Samsung and LG to pre-install the platform on select devices. This week the company revealed that it started working with Motorola towards the same goal. Horizon is a virtualization solution that enables employees to run duel persons on their ...
IBM Launches Kindergarten-Proof Storage Box for SMBs
Big Blue announced the IBM Storwize V3700 this morning, a scaled-down configuration of its enterprise storage virtualization system that takes the core features and makes them available for SMBs. The V3700 can house up to 120 drives with a maximum capacity of 180 terabytes. The system can include up to 8 gigabytes of memory and ...