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Zettaset and Hyve Collaborate on Red Hat-Powered Hadoop
Big data firm Zettaset and Hyve Solutions, a company that makes custom servers with a focus on data driven-workloads, announced they’ve started working on a new Hadoop appliance. The collaboration between the two firms will produce a solution comprised of Hyve-developed boxes running the Zettaset Orchestrator management platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. Hyve will be ...
QLogic and Extreme Networks Offer Fiber Channel/FCoE Interoperability
QLogic has partnered up with Extreme Networks to integrate their portfolios on the premise of allowing Ethernet environments to connect to both fibre channel and fibre channel over Ethernet networks. The initiative brings Extreme Networks’ Open Fabric Architecture 10GbE and 40GbE switches with QLogic’s FC and FCoE storage. The BlackDiamond and Summit series switches will now work ...
Latest from InterOp: Zynga’s in-house AWS
One of the newest highlights of the InterOp gathering held this week at Las Vegas is the Zynga keynote, in which the company detailed its own cloud use case, Wikibon’s David Cahill attended and reported his observations from the showroom floor. The social game developer has a lot of users to support – one in ...
Panzura Hits Revenue, Petabyte Cloud Milestones at InterOp
Two months ago we covered Panzura’s launch of a brand new cloud service based on the Google Storage PaaS, which, at the time, made it one of the first third party vendors to adopt the technology. Today at InterOp, the company is reporting stellar growth and several milestones, including the launch of an upgraded software ...
Hadoop/MapReduce Worth $812.8 million in 2016 [Report]
A recent Wikibon report included a forecast about the future of the big data market as a whole, including revenue from all products and services that tie in with this area. The research firm believes that by 2017 big data will be worth a total of $53.4 billion, more than ten times its value in ...
Big Data Adoption Too Slow in Public Sector, Govt Pays the Price
Storage solutions maker NetApp and MeriTalk, a community portal for government IT personnel, released a reported about the big data gap in public sectors – how organizations are seeing the same changes everyone else does, but are not as quick to adapt. Over 150 CIOs and managers participated in the study, and provided some statistics ...
Cisco Upcoming Earnings Expected to Show Steady Comeback
Networking equipment maker Cisco hit a rough patch last year due to a combination of turbulent global economic conditions and internal fragmentations: the company strayed too far from its core business, with costly initiatives that failed to hit the mark and a poor decision-making system. Over ten thousands job cuts and several months later, the ...
Fresh from InterOp 2012: Google SPDY, Huawei Launch
Inter Op 2012 has barely started but already new products and announcements are being released at the Las Vegas gathering. A few managed to beat the flood, sending out their releases ahead of everyone else. The first item comes from F5 Networks. The vendor upgraded the Application Delivery Optimization functionality of its BIG-IP ADC with ...
Will Motorola Win a $4 Billion Annual Stake in Microsoft?
Google is facing a fair share of legal trouble, a big portion coming from the Oracle case that’s been heating up recently. Microsoft in turn is being pursued by Motorola over alleged patent infringement, the Android OEM the search acquired last year for a sum well exceeding $10 billion. Ironically one of the reasons cited ...
Oracle vs Google is Much Bigger than Android APIs
Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010, is waging patent warfare against Google. The claim is that Android illegally makes (and now apparently no longer does) use of several Java patents, and because of that Oracle deserves a stake of the widely-used and equally profitable mobile platform. Initially it was about the billions of dollars in ...