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This Week in Cloud: Storage and Big Data Making Moves
This past week in the cloud has seen a string of notable updates, and the four most interesting highlights come from two of the hottest areas in this area: PaaS and big data. First up is Microsoft’s Azure Storage price cut. The company is facing a lot of pressure from competing services, mainly AWS, in ...
Millennial Media Revises IPO Plans, Raises the Stakes
Millennial Media is currently the largest independent mobile ad network; its competitors have long been bought out by Google, Apple and other big fish looking to strengthen their hold on respective mobile ecosystems. That, however, will no longer be the case after the company’s upcoming initial public offering, which looks to surpass all expectations. Reuters ...
Dell to Setup 20 Data Centers in APJ
Dell is looking to open 20 new facilities to power private and public cloud services throughout the Asia Pacific-Japan region. The company says that the driver behind the initiative is demand from customers based in the region, mainly China and India, which is why the first data center will likely be located in the latter ...
HP Master Technologists Greg & Chris Tinker Takes a Look at Cloud Plumbing [VIDEO]
Greg and Chris Tinker, two identical twins who work for Hewlett-Packard as Master Technologists solving large customers’ IT problems, sat down for a remote Skype interview with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier at the company’s recent event (full video below). The hands-on talk started after Furrier provided some overall background, including the results of a SiliconANGLE ...
SAP Hoping for Big Data Edge with Predictive Analytics
SAP is making the new SAP BusinessObjects Predictive Analysis available to select customers, and will presumably be releasing out the platform into general availability sometime later this year. This latest push represents the latest piece of the HANA integration puzzle SAP has added, as a part of a much more extensive analytics vision the company’s ...
Scott Weller of HP Talks Services and the New Role of the CIO
Scott Weller, the VP of the support business within HP’s technology services group, stopped by theCube after Hewlett-Packard’s announcement of the new Always On support portfolio to discuss some of the trends in his field (see the full interview below). He started off by outlining a product from his point of view: hardware and propriety, ...
VMware Updates Spring Support in Light of Accelerated Growth
Virtualization software maker VMware announced that it has updated its Spring expansions to support version 3.1 of the framework. The list includes Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Batch, Spring Data, Spring Mobile and Spring for Android. Spring enables developers to integrate various components such as web services in enterprise Java-based environments, and has picked up ...
Cisco Revamps its Video Strategy, Buys NDS for $5BN
Cisco just announced the latest multi-billion acquisition in the IT industry: they’ve revealed their plans to buy out NDS Group, a provider of video streaming technology, for a resounding $5 billion. Cisco had several video-related initiatives up until a few months ago, when it pulled the plug on its Flip unit and more recently, announcing ...
EMC Leading the Storage War with Record Sales, IDC Says
Storage giant EMC has earned its title, according to the latest IDC report on the storage market. The research firm found that sales in this particular industry reached an all time high of almost $3.8 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. The yearly revenue of $14.16 billion is also the highest recorded to ...
Infineta Gets Thumbs Up from Ovum
Infineta Systems, a WAN optimization company that set its eyes on ‘big traffic,’ managed to impress Ovum – an independent research firm that provides IT analysis. The latest Ovum Technology Audit focuses on Infineta, and the way it aims to differentiates itself from other offerings. Principal Analyst Roy Illsley said this in an official quote ...