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Panorama9 Humanizes Cloud Automation Platform
Panorama9, a cloud-based IT management platform, is adding the human touch to its toolkit. Today brings the introduction of something called Perfect Pager, a new alert system that extends the email and text notification capabilities that the company has already had in place. From now on, whenever a serious problem rears its head in a client environment, ...
Whiptail’s Disruptive Flash Solution Fares Well in the Enterprise
Data storage startup Whiptail says that its income tripled last year thanks to 130 new enterprise customers. The company makes power-efficient flash storage arrays that offer both speed and significantly less overhead. “Predictions for the demise of traditional rotational storage arrays and hard disk drives (HDD) are becoming more frequent as flash vendors continue to ...
Dell Says BYOD is Still Relevant, Nevermind Dell Can’t Conquer the Trend
According to a recent study commissioned by Dell Quest, allowing workers to bring their mobile devices to work improves productivity and customer response times. The full report by Vanson Bourne is available here. About 70 percent of the 1,500 IT pros who participated in the survey believe that a BYOD policy can have a direct ...
Hortonworks Unveils Desktop Version of Hadoop, Expedites Automation
Hortonworks launched a new trial version of Hadoop that enables users to run the analytics engine on a desktop with minimal setup. It’s infinitely more accessible than downloading and deploying the Apache versions of these projects. Marketing director Cheryl Custer explained the purpose behind the new solution, dubbed Hortonworks Sandbox, in a blog post she ...
Nirvanix Makes Fresh Inroads Under New CEO, Reveals Intel AppUp Integration
Nirvanix said this morning that its flagship cloud storage offering will be available through the Intel AppUp SMB Service, a subscription-based hybrid cloud solution. AppUp lets users choose from a catalog of online apps and services, run the software on their on-premise infrastructure, and give the keys to their managed service provider. The MSP manages ...
Big Data Review: Startup Funding, MapR U.K. Expansion and Aerospike Speed Record
The past week was a big one for several emerging players in the big data space, most notably Zettaset. The startup closed raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by HighBar Partners. Broadcom also participated in the round, along with existing investors DFJ and Epic Ventures. Zettaset earned the industry’s attention by ...
The Hyperscale Cloud: Not Just for Big Enterprise Anymore
Only a small group of global companies have seen their user base grow so large that they require hundreds of thousands of servers spread across dozens of locations to power their services. This list is relatively short today, but SiliconAngle and Wikibon believe this will change in the coming years. Many organizations are pushing the ...
NFL Champions Big Data, Analytics in Professional Sports
In November last year Dr. Jeff Dominitiz, an economist with a lifelong passion for football, came forward with a tale of the how the N.F.L. tried, and miserably failed, to get with the times and make better use of modern analytics tools. An N.F.L. team approached Dominitiz in 2006 and offered him the opportunity of a ...
RIM’s Faith Hangs on BB10 as Software + Services Direct Mobile’s Future
RIM will release the first line of devices that run on its new BlackBerry 10 operating system on the 30th this month. This time around, it’s all or nothing for the company. The Canadian manufacturer has seen demand for its phones steadily decline in the last few years on the back of the Apple and ...
The Cloud Review: Password Sync, SaaS and 0Web-Scale Servers
Several noteworthy updates crossed the wire in the past week, including some good news for mobile workers. Authentication software maker SecureEnvoy and PasswordBanks teamed up to create a password manager for users who access popular services such as Office365 and Salesforce.com from their phones. PasswordBanks’ cloud-based password management solution, or ‘Identity as a Service,’ is ...