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VCE and SAP Strengthen Ties with Latest Title
VCE, a startup that offers a cloud-in-a-box offering based on components from backers EMC, VMware and Cisco, has become an SAP technology partner. This means that Vblock is now certified to run the business software maker’s applications in customer deployments, and that the two companies have a stronger relationship in several ways. That extends mainly ...
Cloudera Teams-up with NetApp for Integrated Hadoop Offering
Hadoop service provider Cloudera and storage vendor NetApp debuted a new offering named the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, which will be available starting December this year. It’s a pre-configured modular Hadoop cluster that includes Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise, a subscription-based support and management service. The solution puts an emphasis ...
Ethernet Fabric Networking Gears Up for Big Data
Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman recently published a post digging into the Ethernet switches market and discussing the main drivers behind them. There have been a few fresh developments in this space, which make the analysis of this evolving segment even more notable. Miniman highlighted that virtualization and the addition of new applications to Ethernet environments have created ...
Notability Tops Week’s Best iPad, Android Business Tablet Apps
We’ve compiled a list of the five iPad and Honeycomb apps that caught our eyes this week, including one new player in the tablet scene. This time Notability is the highlight of our roundup, thanks to the iPad note-taking app’s broad functionality and efficient design that aims to cater to the power-user that will make ...
This Week in the Cloud: Datacenters, Mobile Take Center Stage
This week featured a few significant updates from the cloud industry, perhaps most notably the unveiling of Hewlett-Packard’s Moonshot Project. The new breed of servers offers what HP refers to as hyperscale: a high-density configuration that packs hundreds or thousands of power-conscious AMD microprocessors. In essence the electronics giant is looking to offer more computational ...
Catching Up with Big Data: Manifesto Part 2
In part two of the Wikibon big data manifesto, Jeff Kelly compares traditional analytics and the tools associated with it with big data, and the need for new tools to effectively process the growing quantity of unstructured data generated within the enterprise. Kelly looked into the mainstream way of ingesting data first. Companies would generate ...
Fusion-io Reports Stellar Growth for 1Q 2012
Flash-based storage vendor Fusion-io held its second ever earnings call yesterday, reporting some impressive year-over-year growth. The company reported GAAP revenue of $74.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, a 175 percent increase compared to 27.0 million just a year earlier. Profit was also up at $7.2 million, or $0.07 per diluted ...
QLogic and Juniper Bring 10G Ethernet to QFabric
Networking gear vendor QLogic said today its 8200 Series 10GbE converged network adapters have been certified by Juniper Networks to meet the standards of QFabric environments. QFabric is a family of products and services that aims to collapse the traditional three-layer datacenter network structure, which naturally got Juniper a lot of well-earned hype when it ...
SAP Gets Greener, One Kilowatt at a Time
Business software maker SAP is looking to break out of business as usual to deliver better results to its shareholders, as well as to achieve some extended goals. The company released its quarterly sustainability update for the quarter ending September 30th, a period in which it used up a total of 112 kilotons–not including the Sybase ...
Pivot3 Gets New CEO Amidst Cloud Exec Shuffle
Pivot3, maker of storage and compute appliances, has appointed Rich Bravman as its new chief executive, effective immediately. Braveman is replacing Robert Fernander, who was Pivot3’s CEO since 2007 and will continue to play a role in the company’s business development. Braveman has been serving in executive positions within the IT industry for three decades. He ...