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Datameer’s New App Store for Numbers Nerds
Datameer rolled out the Datameer Analytic Applications Market today, an enterprise App Store for big data tools. The Applications Market is pegged as a golden opportunity for both buyers and sellers: users that developed custom code for their data-driven workloads can now augment the return for their efforts, while on the other side of the ...
Juniper Networks Up for Grabs, EMC a Potential Buyer?
New reports suggest that Juniper Networks could be gearing up for a takeover by storage giant EMC. The networking firm has had a series of troubled quarters, its stock suffering from a declining market. It could very well be a good fit for EMC, considering the trend towards converged infrastructure. Cisco’s been aggressively eyeing the storage ...
IBM IOD 2012: Big Data, Enterprise Content Management
IBM Information OnDemand 2012 is just kicking off, but that didn’t stop a few demonstrators from getting their updates out there in advance. One of the vendors that has reserved a booth at the event is Nominum, a developer of IP management software. According to a release fresh this morning the company has achieved IBM Big ...
This Week in Big Data: SAP’s Big Push, Microsoft and Hadoop
This week features several notable updates, including SAP’s decision to roll out its HANA in-memory database to the cloud. The BI giant launched the HANA Cloud portfolio this week, a set of different services for developers and enterprises that are all based on the analytics platform. SAP’s new PaaS line-up covers app and databases services, ...
This Week in the Cloud: OpenStack, Xbox Music and The Pirate Bay
OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system, was a major highlight this week, alongside a couple of updates from the digital content streaming space. First up is ComodIT, which rolled out support for the Rackspace Open Cloud. This public cloud environment is one of the first of in the industry to have been built on OpenStack, and ...
HP’s New Server, Latest Client Win
Hewlett-Packard has been very active in the data center this week. The company unveiled a new server product that’s expected to blow its predecessor out of the water, and released a backup and recovery case study. The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen8 runs on two of Intel’s Sandy Bridge-based Xeon E5-2600 processors, which have a combined ...
Teach for America Gets Smart About Storage
Non-for-profit teachers corps Teach for America is using solutions from EMC to protect its rapidly growing IT environment. The organization serves over 750,000 students in the United States and leverages a combination of Avamar dedupe, Data Domain and NetWorker to make sure critical data is not lost. “We chose an integrated hybrid solution from EMC ...
More Ways to Flag Pirates after SOPA Flop
AT&T, Verizon and a number of other major network providers are set to deploy a new copyright alert system that will flag users who share pirated material. The wind is blowing from the direction of the RIAAS and MPAA. Once implemented, the motion picture and label industries will have the capability to match the IP ...
How the Xbox, Surface Tablet Fit Into Microsoft’s Windows 8 Strategy
Microsoft’s known for its enterprise software, but with the cloud impacting the way we do business and pleasure, the Redmond company is shifting strategies around the consumer. The upcoming Windows 8 platform will appeal to your employee and consumer side, spanning work devices, home entertainment systems and everything in between. Here to discuss how the ...
LinkedIn Update More than Just a Pretty Face
Social media remains an important aspect of our personal and business lives, bridging the enterprise and consumer market with broadening expectations. And as companies like LinkedIn and Facebook continue seeking ways to make a profitable business of social media, Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discusses the latest social media updates in a recent interview on the ...