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Dell debuts 3D NAND drives for its all-flash arrays
The marketing people at Dell Inc. scored a major victory this morning after its SC Series became the first all-flash array family from a major vendor to support 3D NAND thanks to the introduction of new backwards compatible drives featuring the ultra-dense TLC implementation. CIOs should take note. Solid-state storage is superior to mechanical disk in practically every ...
How SIOS is bringing high-availability into the cloud | #CubeConversations
While a significant milestone in and of itself, SIOS Technology Corp.’s recent foray into machine learning represents only the latest leg of an innovation journey that traces back decades to the dawn of distributed computing in the enterprise. On the second episode of the two-part series dedicated to the launch, chief operating officer Jerry Melnick dived ...
What you missed in Big Data: Sentiment insights
The data spotlight turned back to sentiment analysis last week after IBM Corp. pulled the curtains back on a new cloud-based service that can infer attitude from natural language communications. It’s the latest fruit of its billion-dollar investment in bringing the cognitive computing capabilities of Watson into the workplace. The aptly-named Watson Tone Analyzer is also one ...
What you missed in Cloud: Tying up loose ends
Last week marked a big milestone for the cloud after business intelligence giant MicroStrategy Inc. made the latest iteration of its widely-used analytics platform available on a subscription basis through Amazon Web Services. The launch comes only a few short months after the flagship on-premise version made its debut. The relatively short delay between the two releases, ...
Microsoft acquires long-time cloud partner to bolster Dynamics CRM
The number of companies to have been swept up in Microsoft Corp.’s shopping spree since the beginning of the year is now officially up to nine thanks to the purchase of an outfit called FieldOne Systems LLC in a deal meant to bolster its Dynamics CRM. Although unexpected, the transaction doesn’t come as too big of ...
Google throws its weight behind OpenStack to push container tech
The OpenStack Foundation has no shortage of big-name vendors to help support its mission, but the latest addition to the list is turning heads nonetheless. Google Inc. has a become a corporate sponsor of the free cloud operating system this morning in a bid to help foster the adoption of the technologies underpinning its infrastructure-as-a-service ...
IoT edge: SAP’s new embedded database automatically adapts to connected devices
Large software vendors are prone to be outmaneuvered by their smaller and nimbler rivals at the start of new disruption cycles, but SAP SE hopes to avoid that fate with the latest iteration of its embedded database that debuted this week, which promises to address the rise of connected devices with new hardware-based optimization functionality. The performance ...
Origami launches new service to help marketers (literally) separate the signal from the noise
The newest entry into the crowded world of marketing automation comes from a low-key startup called Origami Logic Inc. that promises to help campaign managers quickly uncover the data that matters most to their business goals. It’s a value proposition that has become nothing short of a mantra for analytics providers lately yet often proves difficult ...
Salesforce.com adds new security services to its cloud-based application platform
Now that most of the cultural barriers to adopting cloud services are gone, organizations find themselves contending with the privacy and compliance ramifications of running workloads outside the safety of the firewall. That often involves spending months on building out security features, a delay that Salesforce.com hopes to eliminate with the latest addition to its cloud-based application service. ...
Nimble supercharges its flash storage stack with new software-defined capabilities
Having recently witnessed two of its top rivals roll out new capabilities for their respective flash arrays only a few weeks apart, Nimble Storage Inc. is now joining the fray as well with a landmark update of its own. Making up for its late entry is a slew of major new features that will help make its ...