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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 ...
Cumulus Networks extends its software-defined reach to the corporate backchannel
Cumulus Networks Inc., one of the numerous startups promising to help organizations automate the management of their rapidly growing traffic, hopes to stand out from the crowd with a new implementation of its switching software aimed at extending that control to one of the most overlooked parts of the grid: the out-of-band communications channels through which ...
Looker debuts embedded version of its business intelligence service
Looker Data Sciences, Inc. has pulled the curtains back on a new implementation of its popular business intelligence service that allows developers to embed select functionality into any website, portal or app. That opens up a convenient path into the era of data-driven applications that pundits have been predicting for the last few years. The main ...
SanDisk’s new flash drives pack four times the bang for the storage buck
SanDisk Corp. hopes to offset the weakening demand for its flash storage in the consumer world with a new generation of server-class drives that incorporate improved technology to provide greatly increased performance across the board. The launch marks the first major upgrade to the hardware since its absorption into company through the billion-dollar acquisition of Fusion.io ...
Business users rejoice! Salesforce hooks up Excel to its analytics cloud
For a company that until not long ago used “the end of software” as its mission statement, Salesforce.com Inc. is taking great efforts to accommodate users of traditional on-premise applications on its cloud platform. The latest milestone in that push is the introduction of a new free analytics connector for Excel. The integration is the ...
Hitachi reboots its data center portfolio for cloud and analytics
The aggressive investments that Hitachi Data Systems Corp. has made over the past year to catch up on the new trends sweeping through the enterprise reached a culmination this morning with the introduction of over a dozen hardware and software products spanning the full breadth of its portfolio. Headlining the launch are four new converged ...