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Dell Expands its Turf with Open Cloud, ITNinja
Hardware maker Dell’s latest two updates are both growth milestones for the companies, across more than one industry. The first item was picked up by Wired this week, straight from the WorldHostingDays conference in Germany. Dell is expanding its open-source cloud strategy overseas, by making its OpenStack-based Cloud Solution available to customers in Britain, Germany ...
This Week in Cloud: HP’s Flash Dilemma, QLogic and some More IaaS
The main highlight of this week’s cloud roundup is storage wars, an area that we’ve been covering extensively. Hewlett-Packard in particular has had a few very interesting developments lately, namely the newest ProLiant server, and now it plans to put flash into it. Gen8 is the result of a massive R&D effort, and equally formidable ...
Hewlett-Packard Promotes Financial VP, Ramps Up Storage Efforts
Enterprise hardware maker and consumer electronics giant Hewlett-Packard has appointed Marc Levin to the role of senior vice president and controller. He will officially begin to carry out his duties under the new title starting May 1. Levin has been with HP for 24 years, a long tenure through which he has fulfilled several different ...
HTML5 Hype: Apple’s Will is Bending the Rules
HTML5 is getting big. And not just because it saves developers precious time and resources that would normally been used to optimize an app for several different platforms. Apple first touted the idea of finding an alternative to Flash many years ago, citing power consumption issues on iOS. And millions of iPads later, the company ...
Structure Data Part 2: From Datastax to EMC, Hadoop Still Prominent
The Structure big data conference hosted by GigaOM is underway this week, and many industry insiders have shown up to share their insight or pitch their company’s new offerings. A sizable portion of those who fall under the former category have also visited theCube on a few occasions during previous events, and we decided to ...
Gartner Names Top 5 Virtualization Trends in 2012
Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at research firm Gartner, wrote up a list of five changes in the virtualization market trending this year. The bottom line is that there’s a lot of competition out there, and even more at stake as enterprises invest more in the cloud. VMware is now far from being ...
Truce! Microsoft and TiVo Call Off the Lawyers after Two Years
Microsoft and TiVo have announced their mutual agreement to drop patent infringement charges against each other, officially ending a dispute that has begun in 2010. The Wall Street Journal provided some of the background behind the story: “Microsoft first sued TiVo in a San Francisco federal court in 2010 as part of a broader attempt ...
Quantum’s New Cloud-based Data Protection is More Flexible
Quantum is offering up a new cloud platform that’s designed to give clients a more flexible means of backing up their data. The company already has a strong portfolio and is building on that to pump in a lot of business into the new offering, including fast restores, data reduction of up to 95 percent ...
Latest in Hadoop: MapR Extends Support, Partnerships
Commercial Hadoop distributer MapR had some big news today from the Stracture big data conference. It revealed a whole new line-up of data connectivity options that extend the range of applications and database clients running its platform can connect to. The functionality is available in multiple forms. One is an ODBC driver MapR developed in ...
Not Much Difference in Strata and Structure Conferences: It’s All about Data, Again
Hadoop can easily be named one of the fastest growing open source technologies in IT. The big data ecosystem is also growing like crazy, and the industry has been paying attention. The Strata conference was held earlier this month, an event dedicated to unstructured analytics. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon both attended the annual gathering, and in ...