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Permabit Appoints New Head of Engineering
Big data-optimized storage solutions maker Permabit announced it has promoted Michael Fortson, who previously served as the company’s Director of Engineering and Chief Architect, to the position of VP of Engineering. Fortson has been a likely candidate, considering his previous role and over 10 years of experience working within the data storage industry. Fortson was ...
Hitachi Integrates Converged Infrastructure with HANA
Hitachi subsidiary Hitachi Data Systems got a part of its converged infrastructure solutions portfolio certified to run SAP HANA, the business software maker’s in-memory data analytics offering. “Hitachi Converged Platform for SAP HANA gives our joint customers the pre-validated solutions and software to access the data that runs their business faster while delivering real-time analytics ...
QLogic Uses Cadence Infrastructure to Model SoC
Cadence Design Systems released a case study covering QLogic’s use of its Cadence Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform to speed up the design (specifically the system-level testing) of a system-on-chip (SoC) leveraged in a new architecture the company has been developing. QLogic is a networking solutions vendor that makes Fibre Channel, 10Gb Ethernet and InfiniBand switches. ...
EMC Offers As-a-Service Delivery of Enterprise Apps
Storage solutions maker EMC has taken its latest, and rather significant step towards the cloud. The company introduced a hybrid cloud version of three enterprise applications customers would otherwise have to run on-premise, according to an announcement that went out today at the Momentum conference in Berlin. The suite has been named EMC OnDemand, and the ...
Storage Startup SolidFire Raises $25M in Fresh Capital
Boulder, Colorado-based SolidFire raised $25 million in its second funding round from New Enterprise Associates, as well as Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. All three participated in SolidFire’s first round back in February, when the startup raised $12 million. Three individual investors, including former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman also contributed to this latest ...
Attivio Releases v3.0 of Unified Information Access Platform
Attivio announced the third version of its Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) unified data platform, which, just like the previous two versions, focuses on unstructured data. The offering aims to supplement big data analytics by providing users with means to access company data while providing all the functionality required for the given task. Search queries and ...
Juniper Networks Works with Samsung on Enterprise Mobile Security
Seoul-based mobile manufacturer Samsung and Juniper Networks have launched a joint initiative to tap companies customers that are expanding their mobile fronts by bringing together Android and enterprise-grade security. Juniper’s Junos Pulse and Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite will be installed on a number of Samsung’s devices, starting with GALAXY Note, GALAXY SII and GALAXY ...
IBM Adopts BYOD Trend with Open Approach, Security
IBM CTO for mobility Bill Bodin revealed some of his company’s plans to adopt the “bring your own device” trend throughout next year. 100,000 employees will be able to connect their iProducts and Android handsets to Big Blue’s network by the end of this year, and another 100,000 will be added to the initiative in 2012; ...
Cisco Gets Fancy for the Government
Cisco introduced the VPN Internal Service Module for the Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2) portfolio, an encryption card that appeals both to private sector companies and governmental agencies that are handling sensitive material. “The module allows you to offload the encryption process on to the card,” says Vanier, with the hardware doing the hard ...
New Tools in Big Data Drive Adoption, Innovation
Big data is one of those trendy terms that garners attention for a few reasons. But here to drill down on what it means for the industry is Wikibon, recently releasing a noteworthy Big Data Manifesto by CTO and Senior Analyst David Floyer, an analysis of the market and the driving forces behind it, as ...