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Tintri Powers NHH’s Flash-based VMs
Tintri’s latest case study discusses the Norwegian School of Economics’ (NHH) implementation of its VMstore array to power 120 VMs. The infrastructure services about 3,700 students and faculty worldwide, and will also be used as the backbone of a future VDI initiative current in the works according to the company. The case study itself encompasses ...
EMC and Data Domain: A Profitable Decision
Storage giant EMC has acquired backup company Data Domain for a massive $2.1 BACK in 2009, after winning in a bidding contest against competitor NetApp with an offer $200 million higher than the latter’s. Overall, the merger has worked out okay, according a recent interview with BJ Jenkins, the current head of the integrated unit. ...
Wikibon’s Big Data Data: It’s a Profitable Industry
Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly compiled a couple of charts that lay out the big data market scheme rather accurately, both from an overall point of view and from an individual vendor perspective. The first graph covers a prediction of how much growth this industry will see throughout the next five years – a lot of growth, ...
HP, Dell Took a Hit in Core PC Business: A Disappointing Q1
Rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell have more than one thing in common. They’re competing in the same markets, from PCs to servers, and they’ve both seen an impact on their businesses from mobile devices. More recently however, Dell and now HP reported weak earnings that failed to meet what Wall Street had in mind. The company ...
We Need to Catch Up with Our Data: REPORT
LogLogic, a company that offers a scalable log and security intelligence platform (LSIP) that addresses the two most talked-about buzzwords in the IT industry today, released a new research paper covering the two trends and how they tie in with data protection. The report was compiled by Echelon One, research firm that specializes in Cybersecurity. ...
OpenLogic Upgrades CloudSwing for Cloud, Data-Driven Workloads
OpenLogic, the provider of ultra-agnostic PaaS CloudSwing, announced the release of several critical improvements to its still-emerging but popular platform. The first addition, which the company says is unique to its solution, is native load balancing on multiple clouds: there’s support for Amazon Web Services and Rackspace for now. This feature comes with application-level monitoring ...
Skytree Delivers (Literally) Astronomical Analytics
Skytree, named after the tallest tower in the world residing in Tokyo, is a new machine learning startup that exited stealth today. The company’s pre-launch homepage featured a partially Photoshopped telescope snapshot of a certain constellation, which quite fittingly corresponds with what Skytree claims to offer. Skytree Server is a freely available analytics engine that ...
Fusion-io is All About Flash Gaming, Drecom its Latest Client
Flash storage giant Fusion-io has been releasing case studies covering various companies’ use of its ioDrive solutions on a fairly regular basis lately, many hailing from the gaming sector. The newest comes from Drecom, a Japanese web portal that maintains social games, in addition to mobile sites and other things such as RSS readers. The ...
Dell Fails to Meet Expectations Admits PC Market Turmoil
Manufacturing giant Dell, alongside competitor HP, has been making efforts to find a workaround for the impact that Apple’s iPad and Android tablets, among other mobile devices, has had on the PC industry. About 70 to 75 percent of Dell’s business still comes from the PC market however, and this was presumably the primary reason ...
SAP Reveals Integration Plans for Success Factors
SAP’s $3.4 billion acquisition of cloud-based HR software provider Success Factors was just finalized a few days ago, and we now have additional details on how the two plan to integrate moving forward. In a joint statement today we have a summary of how the latter’s portfolio will be integrated into the BI giant’s cloud, and more ...