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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 ...
Millennial Media Doubles Spend, Revenue in Q3
Mobile advertising giant Millennial Media posted financial results for the third quarter of 2012 this week. Millennial has been investing in sales initiatives and R&D to maintain its momentum and it seems that this approach is working. Millennial reported that revenue increased 88 percent year over year to $47.4 million, a much bigger gain than ...
Infineta Offers Free Data Migration to Those Hit by Superstorm Sandy
WAN optimization firm Infineta is giving away free 30-day Data Migration Accelerator licenses to enterprises whose IT infrastructure was compromised during Hurricane Sandy. The vendor’s goal is to make things a bit easier for companies that have terabytes of even petabytes of mission-critical data sitting in affected locations throughout the East Coast. “Such major disasters ...
What’s the Science Behind Political Data? [Infographic]
Storage vendor NetApp is offering voters a fresh perspective on the election with a new infographic that lets us glimpse into the data science that goes on behind the scenes. The Democratic and Republican conventions each generated one terabyte worth of e-mails, tweets, video streams and mobile data. The infrastructure for these conventions consisted of ...
Pentaho Adds More BI Features to Flagship Product
Data visualization firm Pentaho just debuted Business Analytics 4.8, the latest release of its data integration and analytics platform. The new version features two major enhancements, including an iPad app. The company says that Pentaho Mobile is a full-featured port for Business Analytics, with interactive dashboards and the “power to create new analysis on the ...
Don’t Replace SQL: Big Data Tech is Supplemental, Says IBM Executive
Bernie Sprang, the executive in charge of database software for IBM’s software group, hopped into theCube at IOD 2012 to talk about the technological side of the big data PureData, his company’s response to this trend. He shared his insights with theCube hosts, SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Sprang says that databases ...
Brocade Acquires Cisco Scourge Vyatta in Aggressive Push for SDN
Last month Brocade’s Ken Cheng, vice president of service provider products, hopped into theCube to discuss the advantages of software-defined networking. SDN is the the concept of creating an abstraction layer that separates software from hardware and drives down administrative costs as a result. The most notable tidbit from the interview was his point about ...
This Week in Big Data: Google’s New Siri Clone
Google is Apple’s largest competitor in the mobile software arena, a status that has been further solidified this week with the launch of a new app that rivals Siri with data science and language models. The search giant has taken full advantage of its reign over the web to create the technology that powers its ...
This Week in the Cloud: Big Updates from Small Players, Cisco’s UCS Ramp-Up
This week featured several major announcements from a few small firms with big ambitions and a lot of cloud mojo. One of them is Spanning, which hired a Silicon Valley veteran to lead its sales and marketing efforts. Spanning is Boston-based company that offers back-up services for Google Apps. Its flagship solution, the most popular ...
SAP Revamps Social Enterprise Strategy with Jam, Slew of New Apps
Business intelligence vendor SAP has been looking for ways to become more competitive with the likes of Salesforce.com, and it apparently found the answer in Jam. The enterprise social networking solution that SAP gained through the acquisition of SuccessFactors last year will play a huge role in a revitalized big attempt to gain a major ...