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This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Personal Cloud
A lot has been going on in the cloud this week, and two areas in particular, open-source and personal cloud storage, were the main highlights. First of all, Diablo – the latest and first “production ready” version of OpenStack –was launched yesterday. The release is still fresh so stability is somewhat of an issue, but ...
SAP Sybase Tops the Tablet List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week’s tablet biz apps roundup brings you five of our best picks, and Sybase Mobile Sales & Workflow by SAP is the most noteworthy. The iPad SAP CRM client is a part of a much broader attempt by SAP to boost its cloud, mobile and big data initiatives, as well to get legacy customers ...
Stealthy Startup Raises Funding, Talks of Upcoming Offering
New York-based stealth startup Dashlane secured an impressive $5 million in a first round of funding. VC firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital co-led the financing, and execs from both companies are joining Dashlane’s board of directors. Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud, a venture capitalist who also co-founded and led Business Objects (up until HP acquired it for ...
Teradata Ups Security with Latest Version Release
Analytics veteran Teradata revealed Teradata Database 14 today. The latest version of its offerings features a number of major new additions, including security enhancements, broader supports for data formats and more. Scott Gnau, president Teradata Labs, said, “This dramatically improves the data warehouse’s overall performance and manageability. Teradata has always been second to none in terms ...
The Mobile User’s Privacy vs. Law Enforcement, Users Win in California
Smartphones and tablets are gradually making their way towards gaining a significant place in every user’s personal cloud, from utility apps to playing a role in state-wide riots, and are subsequently storing more and more personal data and files. This, however, means that this data is exposed from another angle, and one of the main ...
EMC Lands UK Government Contract
Storage solutions maker EMC announced today that the British Isle of Man Government’s Information Systems Division chose its offerings to power an “IT transformation initiative” stretching the full length of the nation’s administration Using flash, EMC VPLEX technology and EMC Unified Storage, the Isle’s entire public service infrastructure is now hosted in a hybrid cloud. That includes ...
It’s Not Utopia without the Web
It would seem that the boundaries between these four have faded significantly, according to the new 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report. The study confirms that a sizable chunk of students and young professionals consider the internet as an “integral part of their lives.” “Air, Water, and Internet: One of every three college students and ...
Karmasphere Sends Hadoop Good Vibes with Latest Release
Analytics software maker Karmasphere unveiled the latest version of Karmasphere Analyst Big Data today, its Hadoop-based data analytics offering. The revamped product features a number of significant improvements, including a “highly integrated interface” that puts a big emphasis on ease-of-use, as well as a broad look into the deployment. David Menninger, VP and research director ...
EMC Beefs Ups Hadoop Support, Rolls out Big Data Appliances
EMC today expanded its data analytics portfolio by announcing two new Hadoop-based, big data analytics products that will help it grow its foothold in what is expanded to be a $200 billion market by 2015. The first offering is the Greenplum Analytics Workbench. It’s basically a super-sized Hadoop testing system created by the (still freshly ...
DataStax, Neo Bank on NoSQL, Investors Bank on Them
Demand for NoSQL database technologies is growing as companies are adapting to open-source, seeking an alternative to SQL that can handle the massive amounts of data they need to analyze. DataStax and Neo Technology are two of the firms competing in this crowded space, and both of them reached a significant milestone. DataStax announced the ...