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ScaleXtreme Announces Plans Join the Big Data Club
ScaleXtreme offers cloud automation software that makes it a bit easier for admins to manage certain tasks, such as rolling out patches. This week the company revealed plans to enhance this functionality with analytical capabilities that will ship with a future release of ScaleXtreme’s platform. The next generation solution is scheduled to debut sometime in ...
DDN Scales TokyoTech: Better Storage, Mobile Access
One of DataDirect Networks’ latest clients is the Tokyo Institute of Technology, or TokyoTech, which uses the company’s Web Object Scaler to support the Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences curriculum. Students and faculty in the department have access to the TSUBAME 2.0 supercomputer, but the university wanted a number of extras that its existing ...
Garantia’s New In-Memory NoSQL Service
Garantia Data is an emerging startup that is among the 11 finalists of this week’s GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, and it brings a rather interesting new cloud service to the table. Garantia’s product targets Memcached and Redis, two of the most popular open-source memory caching systems out there. They’re used by Facebook, Twitter and many other ...
HP Has a Solution for BYOD Security. It’s All About the Storage
It looks like the small-to-medium businesses segment found its way onto Hewlett-Packard’s to-do list. The company debuted a number of new offerings this week, including mobile solutions, a NAS box and an enhanced storage system, all scaled-down to accommodate SMB needs. The most notable additions are the new BYOD solutions. HP came up with a ...
IBM Looks to Raise Analytics Benchmark with New Platform
IBM’s new Analytical Decision Management software was unveiled this week as an enterprise-ready, decision-oriented big data platform that’s tailored for Big Blue’s core customer base. It falls under the IBM Smarter Analytics umbrella and offers a number of capabilities that the vendor hopes will appeal to companies that want to freshen up parts of their internal and ...
Tracebuzz Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
The number one app in this week’s list is Tracebuzz. As the name would suggest it’s a social media tool for the iPad that searches the web for the freshest buzz about a given brand, and then displays in visualized dashboards. iPad Tracebuzz HD Tracebuzz works by asking the user to enter a term, whether ...
Social Enterprise Gets Gamed with New Bunchball Apps
Bunchball is a company that made a name for itself by applying gamification, the idea that certain interactive components can be used in contexts that extend beyond just gaming, to the social enterprise. Its flagship offering is Nitro, a platform that enables organizations to implement this concept via pre-made widgets, toolbars and other gadgets that ...
NetApp Better Leverages Flash with ONTAP Update
Today storage vendor NetApp announced the newest release of its widely-used storage OS, Data ONTAP. The update introduces a few major additions to the software with a big emphasis on security and automation. The platform can scale to 20 petabytes according to NetApp, “without the need to add more people to manage the environment.” The ...
SolidFire Announces Next Generation System with Double Capacity
Flash hardware vendor SolidFire announced a new system named SF6010, the successor of the SF3010 in many regards. It packs a raw hardware capacity of 6 terabytes and ‘effective capacity’ of up to 24TBs: SolidFire’s solution comes with deduplication and compression software that allows users to be much more efficient in the way they store ...
MemSQL Emerges from Stealth with $5M in the Bank
MemSQL is a brand new Y Combinator startup that announced a $5 million funding round today. A number of venture capital firms participated along with angel investors Paul Buchheit, Max Levchin, Aaron Levie and Ashton Kutcher, who has among other things Hollywood-related, also made a name for himself in the Silicon Valley VC scene. MemSQL ...