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VMware Buys Log Insight to Analyze the Cloud
VMware is upping its cloud play via a series of acquisitions that the company hopes will help it expand beyond its core virtualization business. The latest in this string of purchases is Log Insight. The solution is offered by a company called Pattern Insight, and offers admins the capability to get a deeper look into ...
What Did Dell Have to Do with Curiosity the Mars Rover?
Dell apparently had a hand in sending Curiosity to Mars, or at least in getting it to the red planet’s surface in one piece. According to a fresh release that the company must have just been itching to publish this week, NASA used Dell’s PowerEdge servers to power the two High Performance Computing clusters that ...
Accenture Boosts Pharma Business with Octagon Buy
IT consultancy Accenture has expanded its presence in the healthcare market with the acquisition of Octagon Research Solutions, a company that deals with clinical data management and offers regulatory services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Octagon employs a staff of 380, and has a fairly impressive portfolio under its belt. It’s the fifth ...
Jaspersoft, DataStax Set Out to Make Cassandra Easier
Jaspersoft is a maker of BI tools that enables business users interact with their organization’s big data. This technology will be integrated with DataStax Enterprise, a platform that’s built on top of the Cassandra Hadoop database: it lets users search, analyze and manage data in real time, but up until now you pretty much needed ...
Tintri Targets SIs, Services with New Partner Program
Tintri offers a VM-enabled NAS solution that is partially based on flash, specifically optimized to run in virtualized environments. Today the startup launched the Tintri Lightning Partner Program, which offers more incentives to the channel in hope of luring in more partners. The program is designed for resellers and distributors, but SIs and services providers ...
MapR Partners with Nimbula to Bring Hadoop to the Private Cloud
MapR is joining forces with software startup Nimbula to get its Hadoop distribution running in the private cloud, and there are a few solid very reasons why it decided to go with this particular firm. Nimbula was founded by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, the two technologists who led the development team that created Amazon EC2, ...
VMware Could Launch Project Octopus Later This Month
VMware debuted Project Octopus back in April. The service is the result of a joint effort between the virtualization kingpin and EMC Mozy, and is touted as “Dropbox for the enterprise.” Until now we only knew what it is, but today Bill Bliss, the head of VMware’s end user product development, hinted that that it ...
Putting the Work into Big Data, Caserta Concepts Teams with Cloudera
The newest member of Cloudera’s Connect Partner Program is Caserta Concepts, a consulting firm that offers services to enterprises that lack the in-house talent to implement a big data strategy. It’s the latest name to join an already lengthy list of SIs, service providers, OEMs and other partners that compromise Cloudera’s substantial ecosystem. This community ...
EMC’s Scanning Technology is More Popular Than Ever
Like many other vendors in the storage and infrastructure markets, behemoth EMC has been expanding its portfolio by upping its play in the cloud. However, EMC isn’t allowing that to take its attention from its older and less hyped assets like Captiva. It seems the continued attention is paying off. EMC has revealed that most ...
Node.js vs. Ruby on Rails: How They Fare in the Community
Both Ruby and Node.js are gaining a lot of traction but for different reasons, and the ecosystem is a huge factor when comparing the two. That was one of the main points Brilliant.ly Will Nathan made in an article a couple months ago. On the technical side Nathan notes that Rails has a much better ...