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This Week in Big Data: Growth for Hadoop, Hortonworks
This week a company launched a new big data-centric development platform, four others announced strategic partnerships to develop Hadoop offerings, and one lucky social media startup managed to catch the eye of VCs. First in this recap is the update from Lucid, which combined Hadoop with open source search technology to create a platform that ...
This Week in the Cloud: HP Cloud Services, VDI and mSpot
This week in big data had a few major updates, including the roll out of HP Cloud Services – the hardware giant’s big entry into IaaS – into public beta. The platform is based on OpenStack, a now highly popular open-source cloud OS, and according to SiliconANGLE’s Matt Weinberger can credit a lot of its ...
HP Cloud Services Now Covers DB-as-a-Service, Too
Hewlett-Packard is obviously doing something right, given the impressive number of third party developers that announced integration with HP Cloud Services yesterday, when the newest challenger to AWS’s throne entered public beta. Among those companies is EnterpriseDB, a database firm that is now offering its PostgreSQL DBaaS via HP Cloud Services. Postgres Plus Cloud Database ...
What to Expect from SAP SAPphire 2012: HANA a Major Focus
SiliconANGLE is a regular at the SAP SAPphire NOW event – we attended the conference last year and we’ll be there again this year, live broadcasting news and analysis from theCube. Held in Orlando, SAPphire 2012 will be held from May 14-16. Even before the event kicks off there are a few early developments that ...
HP Cloud Services Sees Massive Adoption Just in Time for Beta
Hewlett-Packard’s HP Cloud Services have officially entered public beta – exactly as promised a month ago, when SiliconANGLE’s Alex Williams analyzed the news to see how the hardware giant plans to take on AWS. Cloud Services is fairly new and offers a very limited product line that reflects HP’s progression at this stage. HP ...
Study Confirms QLogic’s Position in Fibre Channel Market (Again)
Networking equipment provider QLogic is showing off a new report by the Dell’Oro Group that concludes that the company is the biggest fibre channel adapter vendor by market share in Q1 2012. That’s the 33rd consecutive quarter through which QLogic retains the title it has been sporting for the past eight years. The research firm ...
Umbel Hires More Industry Talent After $3.6M Funding Round
An up-and-coming big data startup called Umbel appointed a top-notch expert on media relations to serve as its new Director of Agency Solutions, a title that covers a variety of duties. Umbel works with publishers that want to tap into the social media audiences that are exposed to their content. The creative, small team uses ...
Cisco Stock Down After So-So Quarter, Cautious Guidance
Networking gear maker Cisco reported net earnings of $2.2 billion or 40 cents per share in its third quarter ended April 28–a rise of just under 20 percent over the $1.8 billion, or 33 cents per share the company reported for the same period last year. Revenue rose 6.6 percent from last year to $11.6 billion ...
Oracle VDI Update Means Less Vendor Lock-In?
Database behemoth Oracle upgraded three applications in its desktop virtualization portfolio with the addition of new features spread across a number of different areas, from storage and security to video playback quality. Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 now offers a bit less vendor lock-in with support for not only Sun ZFS appliances but also storage ...
Bottlenose’s Massive Platform Update: Beta Codes!
Bottlenose is a very interesting social startup that, refreshingly, does add a bit of originally to a very worn-out idea. The web app revolves around a ‘radar’ layout that Bottlenose uses to visualize data from users’ social media accounts in an inclusive and more readable format. That is, one that the company promises is open ...