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OpenStack Celebrates 2 Years Anniversary, Rapid Adoption
This week OpenStack turned two. The open-source cloud initiative was started by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 and within 24 months, the project managed to gain hundreds of supporters and even beat a few milestones set forth by Linux. In the 84th week of OpenStack’s existence the project already had 166 different organizations supporting it. ...
Datameer Partners with Dell for Hadoop Integration
Datameer is now a part of Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, meaning its data visualization software will be integrated with Dell Apache Hadoop Solution, the manufacturer’s core analytics solution. It’s compromised of Cloudera’s Hadoop distro and the Crowbar configuration framework which the manufacturer developed in house, and later open-sourced. Datameer’s software packs over two dozen connects that ...
Intel Reports Q2 Earnings: How Does the PC Market Fare?
Last week AMD cut its revenue guidance for the current quarter, and analysts cut their estimates for Intel. Mike McConnell of Pacific Crest Securities lowered his estimate for Intel over the weekend, expecting an increase of only 5 percent in motherboard sales. That’s not much compared to the double-digit growth that analysts’ were expecting for the ...
Will Microsoft Muddy Up B&N’s Cloud Club?
Brick-and-mortar book chain Barnes & Noble managed to outlast competitor Borders when mobile first started to shine, and transitioned to the digital era with the Nook. The e-reader is now several generations more mature and competes with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which as of last year has had a web-based counterpart named the Kindle Cloud Reader. ...
Could We See a VMware Cloud Spin Off with a Big Data Edge?
Unnamed sources leaked this week that VMware and EMC may spin off a few of their assets to form a new firm that will offer cloud services with a strong tie-in with Greenplum. The official announcement could arrive on July 23, when VMware will report its earnings for the last quarter, or later in August ...
Coraid’s New Servers for Video/Big Data Workloads
Ethernet SAN vendor Coraid announced a new family of products today that offers more scalability and more throughput to accommodate not only traditional workloads but also video and unstructured data. The Coraid ZX-Series NAS servers run the Solaris ZFS file system and pack a lot in one pitch. A ZX can be natively integrated with ...
Over 1 Million Accounts Compromised and $350k Stolen by Hackers in One Week
In the past week hackers managed to infiltrate no less than four major websites; and while users of three of these four sites only have to worry about more spam in their inbox and potentially someone else posting forum messages on their behalf, the users of Bitcoinica have taken some serious financial losses. The bitcoin ...
Objectivity Pushes Big Data in the Channel with InfiniteGraph Certification
Database software vendor Objectivity unveiled a new initiative today that’s meant to introduce partners to InfiniteGraph, a graph database that is known for being highly scalable. On top of that it’s written in Java, which means it can be used not just with modern NoSQL solutions, but also in legacy environments. The company released a ...
Huawei Aggressively Targets Storage Market
“Our business is changing, and our customers’ needs are changing. We need to enter these markets,” said Jeff Jiang, the head of Huawei‘s storage marketing. The Chinese ITC firm sells networking equipment to telcoms, and is now seeing a big opportunity to expand into the storage and server markets: enterprises are storing more and more data. Huawei ...
GM to Bring IT Talent-in House, $600M contract with HP at Risk
Auto giant General Motors is one of HP’s biggest clients. The company currently outsources about 90 percent of its IT needs, and its automobile business alone pays Hewlett-Packard $350 million annually. The firms also announced a separate deal in 2010 that is valued at $2 billion, and there’s also a third one on top of ...