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This Week in Big Data: Cloudera and VMware Enter the Frey
This past week in big data has been a pretty exciting one, with some product launches and a milestone acquisition by VMware. First up is Cloudera, which is not exactly new to the big data business. It did, however, jump on the announcement bandwagon earlier this week with the roll out of CDH4, its fourth ...
This Week in Cloud: Remote Storage Regains Interest
The concept of offering users online hosting that they can use to hold their personal files and data is nothing new. In fact, it has been almost completely milked out in the past couple of years. This week freshened things up a bit. We’ve seen some spirit being put back into this area by a ...
Citrix Boasts Q1 Sales Growth, NetScaler Success
Virtual desktop solutions maker Citrix reported impressive gains for the first quarter of 2012, crediting a great deal of it to the success the company’s NetScaler VDI delivery platform has seen in the same period. Citrix revealed net profit of 39 cents per share on revenue of $589.5 million, a bit more than the $562.4 analysts expected ...
Triple Growth for Software Maker Veeam
The privately held Veeam makes software for virtualized environments, including backup and data recovery, as well as monitoring apps and other solutions. And it has been doing something right so far, according to some new data about its performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2012. Veeam says that it has added another 5,000 customers ...
Wiggio Gains 1M Users for Student-Driven Cloud Collaboration
Wiggio is a Boston-based cloud collaboration startup that’s working its way up the same niche market that helped spawn at least one other incredibly fast-growing network – students. And Wiggio is surprisingly similar to Facebook in that its hosting service puts a huge emphasis on the social element and collaboration. The Boston Herald reported that ...
Juniper Beats Earnings Forecast but Remains Cautious About Q2
Networking gear maker Juniper Networks managed to outdo what the market had in mind for the first quarter of 2012, beating analysts’ estimates with a fair margin. Profit came in at 16 cents per share excluding certain items on sales of $1.03 billion, compared with the $998 million and 7 cents a share forecast we ...
IBM’s Latest Acquisition is Vivisimo, another Big Data Firm
IBM recently celebrated its 100 year anniversary, an achievement that can be credited in large part to the company’s ability to identify key trends in a timely manner – from punch cards to mainframes, and now big data. Today Big Blue is several billion dollars deep into the big data space (and not just because ...
Symform Looking to Raise $11M for Two-Way Cloud
Cloud storage is far from being new. Not in the consumer space where Dropbox and a few others rule, or in the enterprise. Every last bit of potential has been extracted from this core concept, and now new players have some serious innovation if they plan on staying afloat in what has become an extremely ...
Pentaho Brings Data Insight Closer to Decision Makers with v4.5
Pentaho, a company that makes big data insight more accessible to the business user, released a new version of its flagship solution. Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5 works as a layer between Hadoop and the end user, with a new set of features. On the user end, Business Analytics expands on readability with the addition of ...
NetApp Adds Data-Awareness to Storage Software
NetApp upgraded its SANtricity software, used to power its E-Series storage systems, with a few new features generously seasoned with big data compatibility. Channel partners are the main focus of this announcement. The additions to SANtricity include technology that the company refers to Dynamic Disk Pools, or DDP. It’s a recovery tool that the storage solutions ...