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This Week in Big Data: IBM & Hadoop, and the Public Sector
This past week in big data has seen some astronomical developments, for the most part from the Square Kilometer Array telescope. The project is kicking into high gear now that the the various international acidic institutes involved in the project are starting to turn to the IT industry for the solutions they need. DDN was ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, VMware and SaaS
This past week in the cloud featured a number of developments, a big portion of which tie in with the open-source movement. Free and vendor-agnostic alternatives to proprietary offerings are really picking up momentum, especially the few products that are spearheading this trend’s growth. One of them is Cloud Foundry, the open PaaS created by ...
SAS Picks Accenture for Analytics Implementation in EU Contract
IT consultation Accenture has been chosen by the SAS Institute to help deploy their Risk Management for Insurance initiative in a client environment. The company in question is Folksam, a Swedish insurance provider that contracted SAS for the job late last year. The goal of this initiative is to streamline the way Folksam’s non-life and life insurance ...
DataDirect Networks to Provide the Storage Behind New Telescope
Earlier this week we covered IBM’s partnership with the European ASTRON to develop analytics software that will filter the data collected by the Square Kilometer Array. The initiative aims to make the job of the scientists who will be working with the telescope considerably easier, knowing that the instrument will generate roughly one Exabyte of ...
Tata Consultancy’s Bad Rep Bad for Business
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the India-based Tata Group, has gotten itself in a bit trouble now that two former employees are launching a class-action suit against the company. Their motion was finally approved by a U.S court this week. The background is that these individuals have opened the initial case against TCS ...
SAP President Resigns for Unknown Reason
In a statement released this week SAP said Robert Courteau, the man in charge of its operations and sales in North America, has left the company. He’s been with the business software maker since 2004, and has been serving as president of the NA region for over a year. Global sales head Robert Enslin has become ...
Make Technologies Latest Acquisition on Dell’s Shopping List
Dell acquired a company called Make Technologies for an undisclosed amount – its fifth buy this year and the third for this week. This is compared with the eight deals Dell struck last year. Make offers services to enterprises that are upgrading their data centers but still want to use their legacy apps on a ...
VMware’s Upcoming Earnings Report and How it’s Tied to EMC
VMware announced the date of its earnings call for the first quarter of 2012. There’s no forecast available publicly at the time of writing, but the company has seen a lot of growth in recent quarters. The official posting is as follows: VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, plans to announce ...
OpenLogic Announces SPDX, Code Contributions
OpenLogic is, as the name implies, an open-source company. It makes an open PaaS called CloudSwing that’s designed to offer more flexibility to enterprise users leveraging multiple technology stacks, and also offers a free compliance tool called OSS Discovery. OSS software is open as well, and fullfills a very important role in the development process. ...
HP Joins the Army: $250M Deal for Data
Hewlett-Packard is one of the many vendors that are benefiting from the U.S government’s plans to modernize its IT infrastructure, a very wide-scale initiative that was kicked off by the current administration with the appointment of the nation’s first CTO. HP’s server group has been assigned with the task of powering up cloud computing services ...