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HANA Chairman at the Center of SAP-Oracle Rivalry
Oracle and SAP have been going at it for a long time now. The feud has extended beyond regular industry competition when the former sued the BI solutions maker for corporate espionage, a case that was eventually resolved without too much of an impact on SAP’s end. The two IT giants are used to competing ...
Millennial Media’s New Campaign for Old Users
Millennial Media, the largest independent (and soon to be public) mobile ad network operator, announced the latest addition to its portfolio. The App Engagement Program is designed to provide marketers a way not to reach new customers, but rather to build on viewers’ initial interest and extend it to additional transactions over-time. The Engagement Program ...
FusionFace Tops this Week’s List: Best iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business Users
This week a somewhat less practical and more humorous app made it the top of our list. Rather than taking an approach more similar to what Microsoft did with Google-bashing Gmail Man campaign, the flash storage provider released an app that tries its best to depict Fusion-io’s edge in the market on the user’s facial ...
This Week in Cloud: From SoundCloud to VMware’s Datacenter App Store
There have been a few major updates this week, a sizable portion of which emerged from the Node Summit gathering in San Francisco. SiliconANGLE has been attending and covering the gathering extensively across our different channels, including the newly launched DevOpsAngle. We’ve also been reviewing other news from the cloud ecosystem, and the following rundown ...
EnterpriseDB Launches New PostgreSQL DBaaS
PostgreSQL database solution provider EnterpriseDB debuted Postgres Plus Cloud Database for Amazon Web Services and HP Cloud Compute, Hewlett-Packard’s still-in-development PaaS. Cloud Bees and Engine Yard will also offer support for the solution, the company said in a released statement. EnterpriseDB’s newest product is a so called database-as-a-service, enabling customers to leverage a more agile ...
Red Hat’s New Board Wants to Boost Open Storage Ecosystem
Open-source software maker and Linux distributor Red Hat announced the GlusterFS Advisory Board, an independent panel of several industry insiders whose job will be to boost the ecosystem around the open storage platform. The plan is that the nine executives and experts will help encourage developers to make code contributions to the project during their ...
Infineta’s Core Technology Patented after 3 Years
WAN optimization provider Infineta got a patent for the key software that powers its flagship Data Mobility Switch (DMS) solution, after applying back in 2009. U.S. Patent No. 8,078,593 covers the company’s big data-focused deduplication technology – a “massively parallel dedupe algorithm” that offers better I/O bandwidth utilization coupled with more simplicity. “Infineta’s approach tackles two ...
The Value of Node.js and DevOps [Video]
Theo Schlossangle, the founder of service provider OmniIT and the CEO of Circonus, the maker of an app monitoring SaaS, attended this week’s Node Summit and gave his take on the value that can be found in Node.js, the open-source programming language that is the gathering’s main theme. He shared his insight at theCube with SiliconANGLE’s ...
New Backup Solution from Coraid and Veeam
Coraid formed a technology alliance with Veeam to run the latter’s backup software on its EthernetDrive SAN storage. “Server virtualization drives dramatic changes in storage requirements, forcing companies to think carefully about their architecture and the ROI of legacy storage networks,” said Carl Wright, executive vice president of worldwide sales and business development at Coraid. “The ...
Big Data Winning: R Analytics Contest Seeks Innovative Apps
Big data has spawned a new era of innovation, and as the enterprise finds more ways to slot big data analytics into their business needs, more products emerge for implementation. To uncover the potential behind the latest big data trends, Revolution Analytics held a little contest, announcing the winners of its first “Applications of R in Business” competition. ...