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Nimble Gets Tighter with the VMware Family
Nimble Storage announced that new VDI reference architectures powered by the company’s CS-Series arrays have been made available via the VMware View Rapid Desktop Program to customers of the virtualization giant. “The program enables customers to quickly deploy comprehensive VDI systems, building on proven and tested reference architectures that map to real-world requirements for successful VDI ...
Cloudera’s Latest Community Contribution: HBaseCon
Big data firm Cloudera announced that it will be host the first HBaseCon in San Francisco on May 22, 2012. The 2012 gathering will focus on (as the name implies) HBase, the distributed database that runs on top of Hadoop, and will feature various educational keynotes and workshops revolving around the software. “It’s going to ...
Mobile Commerce Bolstered by NFC, Potential PayPal Successor
Mobile commerce is a trend that is naturally growing as more smartphones enter the market, and users want to do more with their handsets. Being able to carry out transactions on retail sites via digital currency has been a vision that a relatively larger number of companies have embraced, and near-field communications tech is the ...
QLogic Lands Major Win in Storage with HP and Dell Deals
QLogic announced some very good news this week – it has been selected to provide networking gear that will ship with two of the most buzzed-about products in the storage industry today. The first release covers the ProLiant Generation 8; what has been named by a senior Wikibon analyst as the best server HP launched ...
The New iPad vs the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The new iPad, the third generation of Apple’s tablet, has yet to have be given a more appropriate name but has already managed to send ripples across the blogosphere within less than 24 hours of launch. It’s a less than stellar launch compared to some of the other product reveals we’ve seen from Apple’s annual ...
Connotate Acquisition Boosts Web Data Mining
Connotate is a provider of social media and web data monitoring software that lets companies observe trends that are relevant to their business, and gain insight on consumer behavior. This translates into the ability to measure the reaction of customers to merchandising and marketing related changes, among other things. And this week, the firm decided ...
HP’s Xeon E5, CloudSystem Goals: Spanning the Private Cloud
Yesterday ServicesANGLE editor Alex Williams covered Intel’s new Xeon E5 chips and more importantly the specs: a 80 percent speed improvement and built-in I/O functionality with support for the latest PCI Express standard. It also features a number of other tweaks such as hardware based data encryption and decryption. E5 is most definitely not sharing ...
Former SAP Exec to Lead Causata Growth as New CEO
Causata is a BI startup that carved out its own angle on analytics, an IT phenomenon that has transformed into a massive trend within a relatively short timeframe. The company offers data-munching software, available either as a cloud-based app or via on-premise license, that in its own words is “purpose-built for taking actions.” The platform ...
Juniper Simplifies the Network, Shows Off QFabric
Juniper Networks is facing increased pressure from the market to catch up with its biggest competitors, and one approach the company has invested a lot in is the whole idea of collapsing the traditional networking layers. Simplicity has been the big emphasis on the bottom line, though not only with QFabric. The company revealed the ...
IBM Hooks the Air Force Up with Data-Driven Asset Management
Big Blue landed a big contract with the U.S. Air Force, through which it will provide the latter with its smarter buildings software. Not surprisingly the Air Force has a lot of real-estate, and they have to manage it responsibility in order to comply with Presidential Executive Orders. The total amount of assets accumulates to ...