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EMC: companies recognize Big Data benefits, but barriers remain
Decision makers worldwide overwhelmingly agree that data insights improve decision making, but they still face challenges in effectively implementing and leveraging analytics, a new study by EMC has found. The enterprise storage vendor surveyed 10,700 execs and practitioners from 50 countries to find out what’s holding companies back from pursuing their goals. Nearly 80 percent ...
SAP lures developers to HANA with hosted app environment, open source contributions
Now that developers have become a dominant driver of technology adoption in the enterprise, SAP is reevaluating its priorities for HANA. At its TechEd practitioner conference in Bangalore this week, the business intelligence giant introduced a hosted IDE that aims to radically simplify the creation of backend applications on top of the speedy in-memory database. ...
VMware injects analytics into virtualization lineup
While Hewlett-Packard is busy wooing HP Discover attendees with new cloud solutions and converged systems, VMware is continuing on its journey to move up the increasingly commoditized virtualization stack in pursuit of sustainable margins. The EMC subsidiary is rolling out IT Business Management Suite 1.0 Standard, an analytics tool that provides data center operators with ...
Dell enters Chromebook fray with low-cost educational laptop
Dell has arrived fashionably late to the Chromebook party with the introduction of a less-than-$300 laptop featuring Google’s cloud-powered operating system and complementary software. Designed for use by students and teachers, the Dell Chromebook 11 comes with fourth generation Intel Celeron 2955U processor, 16GB of flash storage and either 4GB or 2GB of RAM depending ...
WANdisco passes Hadoop milestone with CDH certification
WANdisco, a UK-based provider of high availability software, announced this morning that its Non-Stop Hadoop solution has been certified to run on top of Cloudera’s leading CDH4 distribution. The news comes three months after Yahoo spinoff Hortonworks added support for the software to its rivaling analytics platform. “With this announcement, WANdisco has solidified partnerships with ...
HP applies Big Data to ecological research
Underpinning the messaging at this week’s HP Discover 2013 summit in Barcelona, Hewlett-Packard announced that it has joined forces with nonprofit environmental organization Conservation International (CI) to help scientists take proactive steps against ecological threats. The collaboration produced HP Earth Insights, an integrated Big Data solution that couples Vertica database technology with a custom dashboarding ...
AWS addresses main challenges in virtualization + stacking for the enterprise | re:Invent2013
After roaming the showroom floor for the first few days of Amazon’s re:Invent 2013 conference, Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman got back in theCUBE with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to share his conclusions about the public cloud giant’s enterprise plan. While traditional technology companies anticipate that 80 percent of IT workloads will ...
Dell introduces all-flash array with new storage software
A month after the debut of NetApp’s EF550 all-flash array, Dell is introducing a hybrid system that can be configured with solid-state memory as the only type of data storage. The EqualLogic PS6210 is available in six different models with up to three times higher performance and four times the memory of prior generation solutions, ...
QLogic inks OEM deal with Huawei for Gen 5 adapters
QLogic announced on Tuesday that its FlexSuite 2600 Series 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters have started shipping with Huawei’s Tecal RH rack servers and X Series high-density data center boxes. The launch comes two months after the networking equipment provider introduced two HBAs for environments running HP’s ProLiant Generation 8 blades or servers. Like the 2600, ...
ServiceNow ups ante on orchestration with Configuration Automation
Change control has always been a thorn in the side of IT, with procedure taking precedence over efficiency for the sake of risk reduction. To make things worse, limited visibility and poorly implemented enforcement mechanisms leave organizations with no choice but to put governance in the hands of practitioners, who often consider it nothing more ...