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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 ...
Pandora, Media Clouds Expand Globally
More and more connected devices are shipped out to consumers every day, and content streaming is one of the main things they’re used for. That’s why analysts credit so much of the big data explosion to things like online video, and why services such as music streaming platform Pandora are deciding to boost their strategy ...
Cisco Adds Windows 8 Support, Strengthens Restructuring Plan
Cisco and Microsoft formed a partnership meant to attach Windows Server 8 Hyper-V users to the former’s virtual switching technology. Previously, customers had to use a Microsoft virtual switch to connect to Cisco’s hardware, which resulted in less network transparency and overall costs. Now, Windows Server 8 is integrated with Cisco’s hardware on the hypervisor ...
SAP Acquires Crossgate, Ends Court Battle with Oracle?
SAP had a few interesting developments today. First of all, it acquired Crossgate for an undisclosed amount, a company that offers hosted business-to-business integration services. This means Crossgate customers can integrate their networks with partners to ensure secure file and data exchange. The firm is also based on Germany, just like SAP, and claims its ...
DataDirect Networks Brings Fusion Tech to Big Data Storage
Big data storage company DataDirect Networks announced Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) 10K-X today, a new storage appliance. It aims to deliver higher RoI by reducing costs of ownership, while also sticking with its existing approach of optimizing its solutions for big data and cloud deployments. “”The DDN SFA10K-X is a high- performance, scalable solution that will ...
EMC Goes Green with New Datacenter
Storage giant EMC opened a brand new datacenter recently in Durham, North Carolina. The facility is the latest of six so-called Centers of Excellence, or COE, that are spread throughout Russia, India, China, Egypt, Israel and Ireland. The 450,000 square foot facility, a tier 3 datacenter, will serve a number of purposes, “The new COE ...