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An Upbeat Uptick for India’s IT: Focus on Recovery, Big Data
India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies expects to see double-digit growth for the sector in the current fiscal year. NASSCOM forecasts a revenue increase somewhere between 11 and 14 percent for the period, down from the 16 percent that was reported for the Indian tech outsourcing market last year. It’s not all gloom ...
IBM PureSystems Gaining Tractions Among MSPs
The latest from IBM is that Altus IT and Torres Network, two fairly large managed service providers, have deployed its PureSystems in their data centers. The Big Blue says that these most recent wins reiterate a trend that has seen MSPs choose its appliances over other solutions, such Oracle’s rivaling Exa line-up of ‘engineered systems’. ...
Hortonworks Debuts New Drive for BI Integration
Big data startup Hortonworks is now offering users a way to integrate its Hadoop platform with the BI applications they’re running on top. Hortonworks Hive ODBC Driver 1.0 makes it possible to analyze and visualize data from Excel, Microstrategy, PowerPivot, Tableau and other platforms directly from within Hadoop. This functionality has the potential of saving data ...
What Congress’ Big Data Inquiry Means for Consumers
Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Commerce Committee, has sent a letter to over a dozen major brokers as a part of a broader inquiry into the use of consumer data in certain key verticals. Chief analyst at Wikibon, Dave Vellante, discussed this latest Congressional update on the News Desk this week. Vellante explains that the ...
Virtualization is Winning: VCE Marks Efficiency Boost for Colt Technology
Colt Technology Services, an IT service provider not to be confused with the iconic firearms manufacturer, is publishing new data about its massive virtual desktop infrastructure at VMworld Europe held this week in Barcelona. Colt leverages Vblocks from VCE and Cisco UCS systems to support up to 20,000 virtual desktops. The firm runs the Atlantis ...
What Innovations Mark Hadoop’s Transition to the Enterprise? Cloudera Explains
Big data is here to stay and Hadoop has come to play a central role in this story, though the enterprise readiness of this open-source analytics platform remains a hotly debated topic. One company that’s had a front row seat to big data and Hadoop implementation is Cloudera, among the earliest to provide enterprise solutions for Hadoop. ...
HortonWorks’ New President Accelerates Analytics Momentum
Last year Yahoo spun off a sizable portion of its analytics team under a new name: Hortonworks. The startup has since expanded its services portfolio with the launch of the HortonWorks Data Platform, its very own Apache Hadoop distribution, and it’s not having a hard time finding new clients. This week the big data firm ...
Bigger Bang for your Watt: Calxeda Aims for Ultra-Efficient Datacenter Chip
Calxeda is a four year old startup that delivers an alternative to traditional x6 server chips in the form of stripped down microprocessors that offer a much bigger bang for your watt. Last year the company debuted a quad core SoC that requires only 5 watts to run and uses a mere tenth of that ...
BYOD Will Fundamentally Change How We See the Cloud
Krishnan Subramanian, the CEO of research firm Rishidot, took some time off during the Intel Developers Forum to discuss his take on the cloud and what we can expect to see next from this booming industry. He shared his vision with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier in this interview (full video below). Subramanian says that for him ...
HP Unveils New Parallel Machine Amidst Analyst Concerns
Hewlett-Packard’s just unveiled the new X9730, a scale-out file server that rivals similar systems from EMC Isilon and DataDirect Networks. The new product, which according to HP runs three times faster than the previous generation, is based largely on the technology the vendor acquired through the 2009 IBRIX buyout. The X9730 consists of two ProLiant ...