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sqrrl Cozies Up to Big Data Elephants Hortonworks and MapR
sqrrl is collecting Big Data partners almost as fast as an actual squirrel collects nuts. Today, the Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up behind Accumulo, an open source NoSQL database with a focus on security and scalability, announced a new relationship with Hadoop distribution vendor Hortonworks. Accumulo is now being certified to run on the Hortonworks Data Platform, ...
Networking Should Be a Focal Point for Oracle and Rivals, says Analyst
Telecommunications analyst Lee Doyle stopped by theCube at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld for a chat with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante, to talk about the company and its plans as far as software-defined networking goes (full video below). Doyle agrees with the industry consensus that SDN is big, but he is ...
Oracle OpenWorld Day 3: New Telco Appliance, PeopleSoft Update and Java 7
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took stage on Sunday at OpenWorld and revealed the next generation Exa machines and the 12c database software, along with his company’s plans to pursue a services strategy, and lastly, a big partnership with Nokia. Thankfully the one-hour long opening keynote hasn’t stopped Oracle from keeping the remaining four days of ...
DC to VC Brings Latest in Digital Healthcare
As far as big data goes, the healthcare industry is among the most proactive in business implementation. The bubbling interest over discovering ways healthcare can benefit from the latest tech trends has led to investor interest, which is cause for much ado in DC. And at next week’s annual fall Health 2.0 conference, we’ll get ...
Sanbolic Launches New Add-on for Flash Storage
Data management firm Sanbolic just introduced a new module for its Melio storage platform. Latency Targeted Allocator, or LTA for short, is essentially an optimization method for environments that include both spinning disks and faster, more expensive flash storage. The company touts ‘real operational value’, saying that the new module can increase performance up to ...
Data-Driven Smart Grid Infrastructure on the Rise, Outsourcing Too
Utilities is one vertical that’s not exactly ahead of the curve when it comes to IT, but there is a definite shift towards modern infrastructure – smart meters in particular. Unlike the traditional home energy monitors, smart meters can be used to gain better insight into customer behavior – sensors can detect outages and other ...
Accenture Boosts IPTV Buy with Nokia Siemens Assets
This week IT consultancy Accenture acquired rights for some of Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP broadcasting software and related assets, which apparently include NSN 20 employees across the U.S and Europe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Accenture is making a move to beef up its existing line-up for video content providers. That is compromised ...
How Can Microsoft Take Over Tablets? Make them Better than PCs
It’s a big week for Google – the company surpassed Microsoft on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the second largest tech firm by market cap after Apple. It’s a troubling time for Microsoft, as cloud and mobile trends continue to shift away from Microsoft’s core technology and services. GOOG was up one percent at ...
How Do You Empower a Knowledge-Based IT Infrastructure? Unisys Takes on Royal DMS
How to you empower an entire, knowledge-based workforce through IT? As we move into the era of software-defined enterprise architecture, changes made in the IT department are boosting productivity across the company as a whole. Services are getting smarter as software becomes self-aware, enabling a business to learn more about its own processes and make ...
Broadcom Puts NetLogic Buy to Use, Reveals Speedy Chip for New Era of Networking
Late last year Broadcom paid $3.7 billion for NetLogic, a maker of chips and other silicon products designed specifically for networking environments, and this week it unveiled the first product that’s based on technology from the firm. The new 28-nanometer processor is faster, more economic and handles big data workloads better than the competition, according ...