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IBM Touts SmartCloud Advancements, Products
Big Blue’s SmartCloud Services portfolio reach several impressive milestones recently, including adding a notable list of new clients in a relatively short period of time. The IT behemoth says that more than one million business users work with applications hosted on IBM’s Cloud, a platform that powers 4.5 million transactions a day. Those in turn ...
When Will the World Reach 8 Zetabytes of Stored Data? [Infographic]
NetApp is a company whose entire business is dependent on the way enterprises store their data, and this industry is not expected to face a decline anytime soon. That’s according to a newly released infographic by the company (see below), which visualizes a couple of predictions quantifying all the data on the worldwide web. In ...
EMC World 2012: Storage Launches, More Data News
An official statement from EMC World 2012 revealed that the storage giant will be making a total of 42 product announcements during the event. That’s just enough for this year’s Megalaunch to raise the bar beyond the previous record set back in 2011, with 41 product-related updates. It’s Day 1 of the conference, and a ...
EMC World 2012: The Cloud Meets Big Data, All Over Again
Today EMC World 2012 is kicking off with all the expected fanfare. The storage giant’s annual gathering that has a history of aiming towards, and usually hitting, the dead center of what happens to be going on in the IT industry at the time. Last year’s the slogan was “Cloud Meets Big Data.” The partners ...
Facebook Pages Manager Tops this Week’s Best Tablet Apps for Business
Now that Facebook is a publicly traded company with a valuation exceeding $100 billion, it’s probably a good time to look at how it fares in mobile. The social network maintains a number of apps although it hasn’t been stopping third party developers from jumping the opportunity, and the first one in this week’s list ...
This Week in Big Data: HANA, Tableau and MySQL-as-a-Service
The past week was an exciting period for analytics, mainly because from Monday through Wednesday the annual SAP SAPphire conference was in full swing. And more importantly, this year the event was all about HANA. A lot of announcements relevant to HANA’s in-memory analytics appliance crossed the wire throughout the 3-day event, including partner news ...
This Week in the Cloud: New Services, Home Organization and Virtual Gaming
This week was big for the software-as-a-service segment, alongside the regular slew of news from the cloud space, which also happened to include a couple of equally notable developments from the consumer-facing end. The first name in our recap is Accenture, a service provider that introduced a new SaaS for the insurance industry this week. ...
T-Mobile Leverages SAP HANA with a Push from HP
T-Mobile is using converged infrastructure from Hewlett-Packard to run HANA and achieve a reduction in the time it takes to analyze customer data. SAP’s in-memory analytics platform is one of if not the biggest highlight of the SAP SAPphire NOW conference held this week, and HP didn’t miss its opportunity to get its share of ...
Zuckerberg’s $16BN Opening Bell Ticket
Facebook founding CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the NASDAQ’s opening bell this morning, and investors are getting ready to snatch up shares of the social media behemoth for $38 a pop. The initial public offering will raise approximately $16 billion, a sum that will skyrocket the company’s valuation to $104 billion. The stock’s price is on ...
DDN Jumps on Open Compute Bandwagon with Object Scaler
Data-driven storage provider DataDirect Networks revealed its official admission to the Open Compute Project: Web Object Scaler is now certified to run Open Compute server and storage systems. OCJ is an initiative conceived by Facebook to promote more efficient data center hardware, based for the most part on designs the social network came up with for ...