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HortonWorks’ New President Accelerates Analytics Momentum
Last year Yahoo spun off a sizable portion of its analytics team under a new name: Hortonworks. The startup has since expanded its services portfolio with the launch of the HortonWorks Data Platform, its very own Apache Hadoop distribution, and it’s not having a hard time finding new clients. This week the big data firm ...
Bigger Bang for your Watt: Calxeda Aims for Ultra-Efficient Datacenter Chip
Calxeda is a four year old startup that delivers an alternative to traditional x6 server chips in the form of stripped down microprocessors that offer a much bigger bang for your watt. Last year the company debuted a quad core SoC that requires only 5 watts to run and uses a mere tenth of that ...
BYOD Will Fundamentally Change How We See the Cloud
Krishnan Subramanian, the CEO of research firm Rishidot, took some time off during the Intel Developers Forum to discuss his take on the cloud and what we can expect to see next from this booming industry. He shared his vision with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier in this interview (full video below). Subramanian says that for him ...
HP Unveils New Parallel Machine Amidst Analyst Concerns
Hewlett-Packard’s just unveiled the new X9730, a scale-out file server that rivals similar systems from EMC Isilon and DataDirect Networks. The new product, which according to HP runs three times faster than the previous generation, is based largely on the technology the vendor acquired through the 2009 IBRIX buyout. The X9730 consists of two ProLiant ...
QLogic Unveils New Backward Compatible 10GbE Adapter
QLogic announced the latest addition to its 3200 Series Ethernet adapter portfolio. The new QLE3242-R is a dual-port 10GB solution that uses twisted pair cabling to convey transmissions: it’s the first of its kind belonging to the 3200 Series line-up, which before only included support for R optics, LR optics and twinax copper. The new adapter ...
Cisco Adds HANA, Analytics Sweeten the Deal
Cisco wants enterprises to run SAP’s in-memory analytics platform on its Unified Computing Systems (UCS), and today it unveiled a new set of incentives to sweeten the pot. The networking firm is touting a number of advantages to using HANA on UCS, including hardware abstraction and HA. Cisco is targeting early adapters with its all-in-one ...
Early Investment Preps Intel to Monetize the New Datacenter
There’s a definite shift in the datacenter, a trend that’s forcing companies to rethink architecture and applications across the stack. For Intel it’s been quite a journey, but one the chip maker was prepared for. During the Intel Developer Forum last month SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier interviewed David Tuhy, the general manager of Intel Storage ...
Alteryx Adds Cloud Uplink with New Analytics Platform
Big data firm Alteryx debuted Alteryx Strategic Analytics 8.0, the latest version of its flagship product. The new release introduces Alteryx 8.0, an internal app marketplace that gets the decision makers back in the loop. The new feature is addressing a few major trends in IT: the cloud, social enterprise and data virtualization. The social ...
It’s More than Just Bad PR for Apple, Foxconn and the iPhone 5
From worries over iPhone 5 shortages to factory riots, there’s no shortage of drama for Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn. SiliconANGLE editor-in-chief Mark Hopkins hopped on the News Desk this morning to discuss the latest on the employee kerfuffle at Foxconn, which lists some of the world’s biggest tech firms as clients. The Chinese ...
Data Protection Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought, Says Intel
When it comes to security architecture, many developments in the stack seem to be an afterthought, particularly in the application layer. Instead of a full replacement approach, Jim Greene is a senior security engineer for Intel proposes an incremental method to updating enterprise infrastructure. In fact, Greene has a very clear take on the state of cyber-security ...