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Hardware and aspiring software giant Hewlett-Packard broke the news that it has landed a major storage customer, a company which apparently benefited quite a bit from the transition, according to an official release. The new client is Knight Frank LLP, among the …
NetApp Follows VMware-Shavlik Deal with Microsoft Partnership
VMware and NetApp made a couple of milestone announcements, starting with the former’s acquisition of Shavlik. VMware said in a press release it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the develop of SaaS IT management solutions designed for SMBs. The …
Oracle Exadata gets a Boost as Competition with HANA Intensifies
Oracle has entered into an agreement with NetSuite, a maker of cloud-based financials and ERP software, to provide it with Exadata servers to support its cloud. NetSuite has become an Oracle customer to increase performance and deliver a number of other additions …
Hadoop-Based Datameer Raises $9 Million
Hadoop has been in the spotlight for the last few weeks, thanks to a number of launches and developments we’ll get to later. Today the news comes from Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solutions based on Apache Hadoop. …
HP Takes Milestone Leap with HANA, Financial Offering
Hewlett-Packard made a very significant announcement about two developments: it has launched a brand new financing offering, and its HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 systems are now among the first of its servers to be certified for running …
How Secure is the Personal Cloud? Apple, Dropbox #FAIL
Some pretty major security concerns have been circling the cloud these past couple of months, and now Dropbox also got caught up in the loop. Christopher Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, claims that Dropbox …
This Week in the Cloud: Open Source Trends from Major Players
The cloud and big data are on a collision course, and that’s exactly what EMC World 2011 was all about. Open-source is a particularly hot topic these days, and alongside all the Greenplum developments and Hadoop launches, Rackspace has been benefiting from …
Bento for iPad, Google Docs Primed for Business Tablets
Tablet apps have invaded just about every area possible, including the office. Businesses users represent a growing aspect of the mobile market, and as such, more and more developers begin to focus on the demand spurred from their direction. This week, SiliconANGLE …
IBM Drives Big Data Trend with Tape Storage
At the same time EMC is holding its annual EMC 2011 conference in Las Vegas titled “Cloud Meets Big Data,” IBM made its own move in this space. This week, the veteran tech giant launched a brand new big data storage offering …
Jeremy Burton, CMO at EMC Talks Greenplum, Data Scientists
EMC’s CMO Jeremy Burton sat down at The Cube in the heart of EMC World 2011 to talk about his company, the cloud, big data and what it all has to do with new media and marketing.”We wanna make the message simple, …