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Revolution R 5.0: Hadoop Integration, New Features
Revolution Analytics launched the latest version of its software suite for analytics projects based on the R programming language, Revolution R 5.0. The solution now provides users with the ability to tap two of the biggest buzzwords in the big data analytics space today: Hadoop, and operation at scale. “Erik Segur, Michigan State University’s Information ...
Dell’s Take on I/O in the Cloud Datacenter
Dell recently released a case study about NIC partitioning (NPAR), a method that splits an Ethernet port into four virtual ports and consequently saves PCI Express (PCIe) slots. It also lets admins to provision bandwidth to VMs and software running on them regardless of the OS or hypervisor, thus reducing I/O bottlenecks. Dell has been collaborating ...
Nutanix Shows Off Its Fusion-Power
Scale-out SAN appliance maker Nutanix demonstrated the performance of its Fusion ioMemory-powered Nutanix Complete Cluster in 50-node benchmark. Each node was equipped with a 320 GB ioDrive. This marks the latest milestone for Fusion-io, a Utah-based manufacturer of flash storage systems and related software that are known for delivering significant performance boosts. “The innovative use of ...
Datacenter Virtualization: It’s Complicated
Companies are virtualizing to optimize their hardware resources, lowering the number of servers and consequently power needed to run jobs. Virtualization can also boost overall efficiency beyond just lowered costs, to include an increase in performance and agility as well, but you need to get it to work first. Bert Latamore wrote up a piece ...
Sony, Competitors Expand Gaming Strategy Amidst Mobile Takeover
Electronics maker Sony is hoping to push the borders of its gaming ecosystem outwards by opening up for developers. No official launch date has been announced just yet, but a beta version of the PlayStation Suite SDK will be offered to select developers in the U.S, Japan and Korea. It leverages C# and can be ...
Weekly iPad, Android Business App Roundup: Cube Time Tops the List
This week’s top five business apps for tablet users include productivity apps, a web browser, and a security suite – and Cube Time & Expense Tracker, the first app in our roundup got the spotlight. The app’s title covers its core functionality, though the developers went much further than that to deliver more features, thanks ...
Arista on the Hadoop-Aware Network: IT Will Have to Change
Doug Gourlay of Arista Networks sat down for an interview with SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante, providing a glimpse into the networking layer of a Hadoop deployment. After a brief talk about the growth his company has seen recently, Gourlay discussed the differences between the traditional datacenter network, and the one used to ...
This Week in Cloud: OpenStack, Amazon Seize the Day
Alongside the announcements coming out of Hadoop World 2011, this past week features several updates from the cloud industry as well. The first highlight is an update from OpenStack. Rackspace will be handing over control of the open cloud OS initiative to a dedicated foundation in 2012, but the cloud host still intends on remaining ...
Pano Logic Update Adds More VDI Flexibility
User virtualization vendor Pano Logic launched Pano System 5 into general availability, the latest version of its offering which is essentially pre-configured VDI solution that includes both hardware and software. This latest product features a few improvements, most notably support for more flexible large-scale deployments and a sizable performance boost. The most prominent new addition ...
Datameer Chief Stefan Groschupf Talks Business Agility at Hadoop World 2011
Stefan Groschupf, the co-founder and chief executive officer of analytics software maker Datameer, visited theCube to have a chat with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Groschupf gave us a rub-down of his company’s history, originally a 90’s IT consultancy turned software firm. They started focusing on Hadoop around 2005 according to him, ...