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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 ...
Presidential Debate Should’ve Talked More Tech: Data Has Big Impact on Jobs, Gov’t Spending
The second presidential debate between President Obama and Governor Romney this week covered some topics that we haven’t seen in the press as regularly as taxes, including tech. While many may feel tech is an off-the-cuff topic for a presidential debate when the economy’s still troubled, tech is in fact an integral aspect of the ...
QLogic Gets Bossy in Competitive Virtualized Networking Space
Networking equipment supplier QLogic revealed this morning that its 8200 and 3200 Series10Gb CNAs have been certified as being fully compatible with the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch line-up. This switch family is an integral part of Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Fluent Network architecture, the firm’s means of competing in an increasingly virtualized networking market. “Today’s applications require data center solutions ...
Teradata Steps Up with New Hadoop Appliance, Software Trial
Business intelligence firm Teradata had a couple of major product updates this morning. The company unveiled a new integrated big data appliance, and announced a free version of its MapReduce framework. The Teradata Aster Big Data Appliance is an all-in-on solution that offers users a more simplified way to leverage Hadoop. The offering leverages two ...