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Dell Reveals New Virtualized Network Offerings
Dell is making the most out if its Force10 acquisition, considering the news of several new upcoming offerings that aim to expand the hardware giant’s footprint in this area. First up is the MXL 40GbE switch for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade system; the first of its kind made by Dell, at least in terms of ...
Cloudera’s Bag of Hadoop Goodies Ships with CDH4
Hadoop distributor Cloudera announced the fourth version of the Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop today, exactly 12 months after the launch of v3. CDH4 is now available in public beta, giving time for community to improve the feature set that Cloudera’s engineers have released with this fourth edition. And those are quite impressive on their ...
HP Updates Private Cloud Stack, Adds Microsoft
Hardware maker Hewlett-Packard updated its private cloud portfolio according to a blog post by Brad Kirby, the manager of HP’s Microsoft relations. Specifically the largest VirtualSystem stack, the 6,000-virtual machine sized VS3 edition, now comes with new technologies. First and foremost, the all-in-one private cloud supports System Center 2012, Microsoft’s newly launched hypervisor management platform ...
Write for Android Tops the Business Tablet Apps List this Week
This week’s featured app is Write for Android. There are plenty of apps designed for note-taking, on the go project management and other organization-related tasks, but there are considerably less that are dedicated to pure creativity. Write is one such platform, and seems to have nailed a lot of features the mobile worker needs, from ...
More Details on Juniper Earnings: Profit Taking a Big Hit
Juniper Networks is facing tempered market reaction four days ahead of its first quarter earnings call – the stock is already trading at $21.16, a decline of no less than eight percent. The main reason behind the share price drop is a consensus estimate of 7 centers per share in Q1 — a 72 percent ...
This Week in Big Data: Splunk IPO, Deep-Space Funding and Cloud
This week in big data has certainly been a very exciting one for Wall Street, not to mention the two companies that managed to earn themselves a huge financial boost. The first one is Splunk, which went public this week. It offers solutions that analyze machine data and logs, aggregate it all, and reformats the ...
EMC Sales Down Due to New Product Expectations, CEO Says
“Customers expecting that will not be disappointed, and it’s coming soon” said Joe Tucci, the chief executive of EMC during his company’s earnings call today. Tucci was referring to a decline in demand for high-end storage equipment; what EMC says is a direct result of companies supposedly holding off their purchases in anticipation of a ...
This Week in the Cloud: Rackspace, Big Data and Titanium 2.0
This week in the cloud was a fairly unusual one, in that we have seen not one but three big announcements marketing the convergence of at least two trends in the cloud. First up is Rackspace’s news. The web host revealed a massive commitment to OpenStack, an initiative it conceived only two years, by migrating ...
NAB Final Recap: New Value, New Ways of Making Big Data Work
TheCube has been streaming content throughout the entirety of this week’s NAB conference. John Furrier and Dave Vellante reflected on their observations at the end of each day, and summarized some of the key highlights. Day 2 focused on the technology that’s helping to transform traditional media. Vellante looked at the different role of storage ...
Fusion-io Offers Flash SDK to Software Devs
Fusion-io makes flash storage that can credit a tremendous amount of its popularity to the sophisticated software powering it, such as the Atomic Writes I/O cutting extension. The company is responsible for slowly pushing SSDs into mainstream IT, and its new SDK is certainly underscoring this goal. Fusion-io announced today its first software development kit ...