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DDN Comes Out on Top, Again
DataDirect Networks published the results of a couple of benchmark tests, one concocted by SAS and another carried out in “public sector laboratory tests” operated by an unspecified entity. The SAS review checked the performance of the DDN SFA 10K-E platform together with GRIDScaler in a SAS Grid execution of a “highly parallel model calibration ...
QLogic’s Mt. Rainer Adapters Bring Flash into the Mix
Networking equipment maker QLogic unveiled Mt. Rainier, a host bus adapter technology that brings server-based caching to the SAN in the data center. It resides inside clustered or non-clustered servers and creates a scalable, shared SANcache that can be used by all the connected boxes. Mt. Rainer offers options that work with PCIe flash cards and industry standard SAS/SATA SSDs. The technology offers ...
SAP CEO Wants 1 Billion People to Use his Company’s Software
SAP co-head Bill McDermott has big plans for his company as a whole. In a Churchill Club session at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, the chief executive said that SAP’s goal is to reach one billion users by 2015. One billion is a big number, and “all the people who would touch an SAP ...
Pentaho Reveals Key Big Data Drivers, Growth in Hadoop
Business analytics firm Pentaho released a list of the core trends that are propelling the big data phenomenon, at least according to the company’s own perspective. Pentaho also took the opportunity to boast a revenue increase of no less than 340 percent between the first and second quarter of this year, which easily qualifies it ...
HP Comes Out Victorious From the Oracle-Itanium Debacle
A sizable portion of Hewlett-Packard’s high end- storage systems are powered by Intel’s Itanium chip, and before Oracle acquired Sun, the database giant committed to producing software for the architecture. That changed after the buy. Sun Microsystems was a direct competitor to HP, and through the acquisition Oracle gained access to the company’s rivaling data ...
Facebook Tries to Cheer Up Investors with Buyback, Delays Employee Cash Ins
Social media behemoth Facebook lists a sizable portion of the world’s population as users, but is still struggling to monetize those hundreds of millions of eyeballs. That is one of the main reasons the company, which traded $38 a share on the morning of its IPO, has seen its stock price plummet to below $18 ...
Design and User Experience at Heart of CIO’s Concern over Apple-Samsung Ruling
Last month a jury ordered Samsung to pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple for infringing 7 of the 8 patents that the latter listed in a lawsuit filed with a California district court. The on-going feud between the top mobile manufacturer in the world and the most valuable firm out there stretches across multiple ...
Can Rovio’s Bad Piggies Fare Better than Amazing Alex?
Rovio, best known for the sustained momentum that earned Angry Birds over one billion downloads to date, is branching out. Capitalizing on the success of the physics-game franchise, the Finnish game developer released a teaser trailer of an upcoming game called Bad Piggies, which will allow the player to enjoy the Angry Birds universe from ...
Venture Capitalists Invest Heavily in Cloud in 2011
It’s no secret that the cloud is hot. Steve Bengston, director of consultancy and financial services provider PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has shared some statistics that show exactly how hot. According to PwC, in 2011 venture capitalists (VC) shelled out $6.9 billion to fund “internet-specific” start ups, and most of these companies provide cloud related services and products. That’s ...
Microsoft Challenges Google with Office 365 Revamp
Microsoft is continuing its efforts to transfer its Office productivity suite dominance to the cloud and compete with Google Apps for the hearts of the business users. The Seattle giant’s Microsoft Office has long enjoyed an almost exclusive position in the enterprise, but many companies have begun to favor Google’s rival cloud software for its convenience, ...