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Big Data Review: Millennial Media’s Big Win and Splunk Enterprise 5
A few interesting stories came out of the big data space over the past seven days, including two noteworthy highlights from the mobile industry. First up, Millennial Media entered into a big partnership with MediaVest, which pegs itself a “digital planning agency.” Through this agreement Millennial is taking on the role of data supplier: the ...
Itanium 9500: Intel’s Ace in the Hole?
Intel’s x64 bit Itanium architecture went through a rough patch in its early days: the chipset failed to live up to expectations when it rolled out (behind schedule) in 2001, and fell in line with the RISC and CISC CPUs Intel said it would outmatch. The brand has come a long way since then. Last ...
IBM Updates Mobile Software, Services Portfolio
Big Blue augmented its mobile line-up today with new products, an extended consultancy offering and additional features for a couple of existing solutions. More handsets and tablets are connected to the corporate network today than ever before, and IBM is offering enterprises the software and know-how to make this organized chaos more manageable in the ...
Hadapt’s Chief Data Scientist and CTO Give Us a Peek Behind the Curtain
Hadapt chief data scientist Mingsheng Hong and chief technology officer Philip Wickline showcased the latest release of their flagship software in theCube during Strata Conference + Hadoop World last month. Hong fires up the demo. He’s showing a single-node deployment of Hadapt 2.0 on his MacBook from within Tableau, which powers the easy-to-understand interface that ...
Cisco Thinks It’s Video Chat is Better than Facebook for the College Crowd
Cisco has identified a new opportunity to promote its WebEx videoconferencing tool, this time in the academia. The networking kingpin just revealed a new version of the platform that’s targeting this segment with better communications, more integration and a few other tweaks you may not find in the enterprise version. WebEx Social for Higher Education is ...
NetApp Updates Storage OS with Flash Caching and More
NetApp announced major update to the E-Series platform that powers its data storage system this morning. The latest release introduces a number of enhancements that aim to make the software more attractive for enterprises that deal with CPU-intensive apps and massive amounts of data. The big deal here is flash caching. Support for SSD cache ...
HP Launches New StoreVirtual SMB Servers
Hewlett-Packard is targeting small-to-medium businesses with new storage arrays and software that promise to make virtualization and data warehousing easier for a reasonable price tag. The company extended its StoreVirtual line-up with two new models that run the latest version of its data center platform, LeftHand Operating System 10. StoreVirtual 4130 and 4330 Storage are ...
The Cassandra Way, According to DataStax VP
DataStax vice president of products Robin Schumacher and marketing head Lara Shackelford has a very solid take on big data as it stands today. The two executives believe that Apache Cassandra. The open-source platform on which their company’s portfolio is built, has a big role to play in this trend, and they told Wikibon analyst ...
Appcelerator’s 4th Acquisition Signals Ambitious Hadoop Plan
Appcelerator made its fourth buy in two years this week, with the acquisition of Nodeable, a small Hadoop startup with big ambitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed A few months ago Nodeable launched StreamReduce, a pre-processing solution that organizes data streams before they enter Hadoop. This extra layer makes MapReduce jobs considerably speedier ...
Big Data for the Little Guys: Beyond the Fortune 100
Colin Shearer, the head of IBM’s advanced analytics business, took some time off during his company’s IOD conference last month to discuss IBM’s upcoming subscription-based analytics service with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Analytics Answers, set to launch within the next few months, couples big data with the cloud to make this technology available to companies ...