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New Alliance in Big Data: Pentaho et al. Builds Out Analytics
Three emerging names in the big data space announced an alliance this week that will combine their respective software and services to create a new solution for analyzing customer data. These three companies are Pentaho, Semphonic and Infobright. Pentaho makes BI solutions that analyze companies’ data, while Semphonic offers services and consulting to clients that ...
Big Data for the Data Center: iTRACS and Intel Apply Analytics
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) firm iTRACS showcased its data center power analysis software at last month’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged event in Munich, and demonstrated six different use cases. These are now available upon request from the company, whose offering is based on existing technology from chipmaker Intel. iTRACS’ product goes by the name of ...
Sprint’s Neck Deep in the Cloud with New Services Portfolio
Sprint has entered into an exclusive agreement with CSC to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service to customers in the U.S. This is a major extension of Complete Collaboration, the carrier’s UCaaS that was debuted just earlier this year. Sprint’s IP network will act as the ‘communications backbone’ for SC’s Trusted Cloud and its line-up of related ...
Fujitsu Picks Datameer to Power its New Big Data System
Fujitsu struck an alliance with big data startup Datameer to jointly sell and market a new offering that couples their technology to power on-premise analytics. The System Solution for Enterprise Big Data Analysis will only be available in Japan. Fujitsu is touting its integrated solution as an out-of-the-box system that can be used to analyze ...
VMware Unveils Beta Version of Zimbra 8.0
VMware is making a beta version of the new Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 available for download today, its widely used open-source e-mail and calendar solution. There are several big improvements, including a lot of integration, easier deployment and a line-up of new end user features. The final release will be made available later this quarter. ...
Business Analytics Market Grew 14 Percent in 2011, Says IDC Report
Research firm IDC released a paper today entitled which concludes that The worldwide business analytics market rose by 14.1 percent last year, according to a new report from IDC. In the report, ‘Worldwide Business Analytics Software 2012-2016 Forecast and 2011 Vendor Shares,’ IDC says it expects a compound annual growth rate of 9.8 percent to persist ...
Kognitio Extends Platform to Amazon Web Services
Kognitio, a company that offers an in-memory big data analytics platform, made its software available on AWS this week. This opens up its product to smaller customers that may not be interested in a particularly large deployment, as well as ones that do but find the AWS model more appealing. The cloud-optimized service named Kognitio ...
Fusion-io Collaborates with Academia to Enhance DRAM
Last year Fusion-io introduced Atomic Writes, technology that reduces writes to only one process rather than two, and the company’s revealed their latest innovation – Extended Memory. This subsystem is the result of a joint project with Princeton and is also available as a part of Fusion’s software development kit. The difference lies in what ...
Microsoft’s Tablet Push Gets Bigger (Literally) with Pixel Buy
Microsoft is getting into the hardware business. It’s so confident in Windows 8 and Surface, its own branded tablet that will run on the mobile-optimized OS, that it is willing to risk a huge backlash from its biggest OEMs. And this week we learned just how serious the software kingpin, and perhaps soon to be ...
Analysts a Bit Chided Ahead of VMware’s Upcoming Earnings Call
Researchers at Wunderlich cut the firm’s target price on VMware from $120.00 to $100.00 in a report sent out this week ahead of the virtualization software maker’s upcoming earnings call on July 23rd. They retained a buy rating though, and other analysts’ also revised their take in recent months. Several other analysts have also recently commented ...