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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 ...
As cloud-based security gains momentum, Dell launches new on-premise firewall appliances
It seems that rarely a week goes without a cloud security startup exiting stealth or landing an eight-figure investment, but that’s not deterring Dell, Inc. from continuing to pursue its on-premise network protection ambitions. In fact, the company is actively expanding that effort with the launch of new firewall appliances that take direct aim at ...
Qlik takes its data visualization platform to the cloud
Qlik Technologies Inc. is following the competition into the public cloud with a new managed implementation of its widely-used visual analytics platform that promises to make data insights more accessible. The service is designed to complement, rather than replace, existing on-premise installations of its software. Analysts can leverage the hosted functionality to publish graphs created ...
What you missed in Cloud: DevOps-as-a-service
The past week saw the cloud spotlight turn back to the development community with the launch of new capabilities aimed at fostering the creation of the web services changing how organizations operate. Nitros.io Inc. set the wheels in motion with the debut of a reworked version of its managed application platform adapted for the needs ...
What you missed in Big Data: Scaling up and out
Scalability emerged as the main theme of the analytics world last week as key vendors upped the ante on the capacity of their respective platforms in the fight over enterprise spending. Teradata Corp. went down the density route with the launch of a new number-crunching appliance that packs up to four times as much storage as ...
HP aims beefy new OpenFlow-enabled switch at campus netwoks
Hot on the heels of entering the commodity networking business to go after hyperscale data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co. is returning to the proprietary world with a new campus switch that uses the latest iteration of its homegrown packet processor to provide a substantial speed boost over the competition. In particular, the 5400R zl2 v3 series targets ...
VMware launches new VDI capabilities… for Citrix users?
It’s not often that a vendor introduces new features for customers of its biggest competitor, but VMware Inc. did exactly that this morning with the launch of a profile management toolkit that works with desktop virtualization software from Citrix Systems Inc. in addition to its own platform. The offering is based on technology from the ...