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Pivotal augumentes its Hadoop-powered analytics suite for faster queries
Pivotal Software, Inc. is making an appearance at its parent company’s EMC World 2015 summit this week with an updated analytics stack touted as capable of performing certain operations exponentially faster than before. The upgrade is the first major milestone for the spin-off since the release of its core technologies to the open-source ecosystem. The ...
Nimble throws its flash weight behind SAP’s in-memory HANA database
Organizations that are thinking of buying in to SAP’s in-memory HANA database now have another deployment option courtesy of Nimble Storage, Inc., which is launching a new reference architecture specifically designed to support fast analytic workloads. The announcement comes only a few days after one its top competitors certified its rival flash arrays to support the ...
VCE takes hyperconvergence to a new height (literally) with the VxRack
EMC World 2015 is kicking off with a bang with the debut of a new hyperconverged rack from VCE that can pack up to 1,000 commodity compute nodes into an ultra-dense configuration that takes a page directly from the book of the world’s largest data center operators. The launch expands an already aggressive VCE effort ...
CloudGenix bags $25 million to disrupt the WAN router
Barely three weeks after another team of Cisco Systems Inc. veterans raised funding to disrupt how the corporate network is managed, CloudGenix, Inc. is following suit with a new $25 million round of its own to pursue the same goal. The capital infusion will help fuel its efforts to change the way organizations scale their ...
CoreOS revamps its commercial container service and adds Kubernetes support
The tug-of-war over the future of containers is growing even more intense with the introduction of new collaboration capabilities from CoreOS Inc. aimed at helping developers make more out of its homegrown variation on the emerging virtualization format. The launch will help level the playing field against the bigger and better-established competition. That means Docker Inc., ...
What you missed in Cloud: High-level visibility
The view from the cloud on the people and processes below became much clearer last week after Adobe Systems Inc. teamed up with Microsoft to make customer information stored in its service more accessible from outside the marketing organization, and in particular for the sales personnel charged with the crucial task of turning leads into deals. ...
What you missed in Big Data: Vertical-specific knowledge
The analytics ecosystem became even more crowded last week after Hitachi Ltd. tossed its hat into the ring with the introduction of new data services aimed at addressing the highly specialized needs of vertical segments. The launch marks the first fruit of its nine-figure acquisition of Pentaho Corp. this year. The generic business intelligence capabilities that ...
Microsoft’s new data services scale analytics for the public cloud
Data management emerged as an unexpected highlight of Microsoft’s annual developer event this week alongside augmented reality and mobile devices with the introduction of new services meant to provide a convenient way of parking large amounts of information in the public cloud. The most significant of the additions is a distributed file system promising to ...
HP injects its storage magic into latest OpenStack “Kilo” release
Hewlett-Packard Co. has contributed the code for some of its most important storage innovations to the latest “Kilo” release of OpenStack in a bid to make the cloud operating system more appealing to enterprises. The donation that will perhaps be most appreciated by the upstream community is the flash-based caching engine from its 3PAR arrays. ...
A storage unicorn is born as Infinidat raises $150 million for $1.2 billion valuation
The storage industry gained a new representative in the billion-dollar-plus valuation club this week after Infinidat Inc. raised $150 million from investors to help drive the adoption of its groundbreaking hybrid array. The system is the culmination of more than five years of work that started with founder Moshe Yanai (right) setting out to one-up ...