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Infineta Joins NetApp Ecosystem
Storage vendor NetApp is steadily getting more and more involved with big data. Earlier this month the company debuted an integrated box that is built to run Hadoop, and shortly thereafter announced a significant partnership with Infineta. Infineta makes software that reduces latency in big data environments, in which even the most minute networking delays ...
Cisco and Citrix: Two Peas in a Pod
Networking behemoth Cisco and virtualization software maker Citrix announced a new partner program this week that offers a number of incentives to resellers in the VDI space. More specifically, only partners who deliver Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with Citrix XenDesktop are eligible to join the Cisco and Citrix Partner Accelerator. The two firms promise ...
Sumo Logic Goes Freemium with Data Analysis
Log management software startup Sumo Logic went out of stealth just a few months ago, and it has been keeping very busy ever since. The company dove right into a freemium model this week with the debut of Sumo Logic Free, a new edition of its analytical solution that is deployed on Amazon Web Services. ...
Accenture Closes Three Deals in One Week
IT consultancy Accenture had a pretty good run last week, according to a Trefis report that says the company closed three high-profile deals in just seven days. Accenture’s first agreement was with Nordea, the largest banker in the Nordic region. The latter hired the firm to develop and maintain applications that will help improve its ...
Red Hat Follows up JBoss Launches with Three More
Open-source software kingpin Red Hat announced updates to a few of its products, just a few days after a similar-sized roll out. This morning the company debuted the latest release of its Enterprise Business Rules Management System. BRMS 5.3 introduces new business process management and CEP capabilities via the newest version of jBPM, the core ...
Hovernote Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
Hovernote for Android tablets is the app that made it to the title because of the fact that, thanks to some practical thinking on behalf of the developer, the note-taking tool seems to “get” productivity. The application runs in the background and the use can access it by just tapping a hotkey or button, rather ...
This Week in Big Data: MapR Updated, SAP’s Agenda and the Future of Analytics
The past few days featured the usual handful of big data updates, in addition to providing a bit of foresight that reaffirms the optimism that this space is witnessing today. First up is MapR’s update – the Hadoop distributor has Cloudera, Greenplum and others to compete with, and it’s branching out in an attempt to ...
This Week in the Cloud: New Launches and One Stealthy Startup
A few notable updates in the past seven days including dotCloud’s big update to its platform Services – the first item on our list. The PaaS provider expanded its platform with three new environments and a more developer-friendly payment model. dotCloud Sandbox is a free testing tool, Live is a scaling utility that makes it ...
Microsoft’s Dive into Consumer Hardware Doesn’t Concern HP, Dell
Ahead of E3 earlier this month rumors spread like wild fire about Microsoft’s SmartGlass – some claimed that the brand will turn out to be some sort of service that supplements the Xbox, while other sources said it could be a tablet. It turned out that SmartGlass is in fact an application, although this week ...
Putting Big Data to Work: IBM Picks SkyFoundry and StreetLight as SmartCamp Winners
When it comes to real world applications of big data ideals, IBM is one of the companies encouraging big data’s use for things like urban traffic planning and smarter energy use. In a two-day SmartCamp startup competition last wee, IBM chose SkyFoundry and StreetLight Data as the winners. The two teams apply analytics to their respective ...