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SAP Adds Analytical Capabilities to BusinessObjects, Cloud Version to Come
More services are adding a layer of data analytics to their product line-up, and SAP’s not one to miss out on the big opportunity behind big data. SAP is now offering users of its popular BusinessObjects BI software line-up a bigger bang for their buck with the addition of big data functionality to several core ...
OmniCube Gets Big Money for Promising New Take on Hardware
SimpliVity is a startup that was founded back in 2009, and existed stealth mode until VMworld‘s annual conference, held this past August. It offers something called the OmniCube, a cloud appliance those bundles up modern hardware and software into easily-managed units that can be stacked and administrated economically. Today, SimpliVity announced that it has raised ...
Sanbolic’s New Microsoft SQL Solution Now Supports Rackspace
Data management software maker Sanbolic announced today that AppCluster will be made available to Rackspace Cloud customers. AppCluster automates the administration of databases in Microsoft SQL enterprise environments – it’s specifically designed to be deployed in IaaS environments, and it aims to make the DBA’s job that much easier. It simplifies fail-over, load-balancing and migration ...
Precog Is a Real Company. Public Beta Launches Today
Precog is an up-and-coming startup named after its budding platform, which combines cloud, integration and big data into one developer service. The solution can be implemented as the the analytical infrastructure for mobile and web applications, as well larger scale back-office systems. Precog’s taking the next big step towards growing its company, launching its public ...
Cloudera’s Ecosystem Continues to Grow. More Hadoop for the Enterprise
Cloudera’s ecosystem just keeps growing, Syncscort being the latest to join the Cloudera Connect Partner Program. That includes certification for Cloudera’s DMExpress software for CDH4 and Cloudera Enterprise, the open-source version of the vendor’s Hadoop distribution. DMExpress will make it easier for enterprises to connect their Hadoop deployment with existing systems, with a number of benefits. End ...
This Week in Big Data: Cisco Gets Smart, Cloudera Games Up
There were several highlights from the analytics space this week, including a couple of major partnerships. Syncsort, a maker of data integration software, signed up for the Cloudera Connect Partner Program to get its DMExpress platform certified for CDH4 and Cloudera Enterprise. DMExpress has been available for HortonWorks users since June, so this is a ...
This Week in the Cloud: Mobile Development, OpenStack and Integration
A couple of updates from the mobile dev cloud stood out in this week’s top stories: both Microsoft and appMobi have made a move to increase their appeal to app developers with new hosted platforms. Microsoft has stepped it up with this week’s launch of Azure Mobile Services, infrastructure customized to make it as straight-forward ...
Oracle Changes Its Tune About the Cloud, Saves Stock Despite Sales Decline
The cloud is here to stay. A hard pill for Oracle to swallow, but a necessary one indeed. The database giant saved its stock prices with news of its cloud strategy, regaining investor interest despite a 24 percent decline in Oracle’s hardware business. There’s been a bevy of cloud service providers layering convenience and low ...
Virident Hires New CEO After Series D Funding
Flash storage startup Virident just appointed Mike Gustafsonas as its new chief executive, right on the heels of a massive Series D funding round. Gustafsonas was the head of BlueArc until it was acquired by Hitachi, where he served as senior vice president of its file and content business before joining Virident. He has just ...
Fliptop, Dell Launch New Offerings at Dreamforce ‘12
Partners are assembling at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce gathering held this week, and a few already unveiled their major updates around the cloud-based CRM service. Fliptop is launching new capability called Social Profiles for Salesforce, which automatically adds the Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles of the people in your CRM system to the other data that’s ...