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ClickFox Highlight: Automating Customer Service
The WSJ wrote-up a brief overview of ClickFox, an emerging player in the big data space, which offers companies the ability to track consumer experience, rather than gauge interactions via a number of channels and extracting what may turn out to be more shallow insight in some situations. This angle on big data has paid ...
FalconStor Partners with Fujitsu to Integrate Storage Offerings
Cloud backup company FalconStor announced a milestone development today, entering into a comprehensive worldwide reseller agreement with Fujitsu to integrate its FalconStor Network Storage Server storage and virtualization management software with a part of the latter’s portfolio. “With FalconStor NSS, we are providing a strategic technology to Fujitsu that will help its customers manage, protect and ...
Jivox Raises $8.2M, Expands Board
Jivox secured $8.2 million in a second funding round led by Fortisure Ventures, with participation from existing investors Opus Capital and Helion Advisors. The India-based video advertising firm that aims to allow customers to run campaigns across a broad range of devices also expanded its management, adding Mani Subramanian, CEO of Fortisure Ventures Akademos CEO ...
Informatica’s New Universal Hadoop Parsing Tool
Data integration software maker Informatica unveiled HParser, “the first data parsing transformation solution for Hadoop environments” that runs natively inside MapReduce to increase the overall efficiency and performance of a deployment. The offering is compatible with almost every Hadoop distro according to the company, and works by structuring data such as social media interactions in ...
HP’s Dwight Barron Discusses Moonshot Efficiency at theCube
Dwight Barron, the Chief Technologist of HP’s Hyperscale unit talked Project Moonshot during an interview at theCube with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Moonshot is a new power-efficient breed of mini servers that accommodate hundreds or thousands of cores that share cooling, storage and other resources to drive down the costs of high density computing. The ...
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 ...