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What you missed in Big Data: Plumbers at work
While the broader industry is only now emerging from the holiday slump, the analytics ecosystem continued more or less apace last week as databases took the limelight following major updates to two of the hottest platforms around. The Ashton Kutcher-backed MemSQL Inc. set the ball rolling on Monday with the introduction of a much-needed connector ...
What you missed in Cloud: Watson competitor and an Amazon oops!
The holidays didn’t interrupt the usual flow of activity in the public cloud, where several major developments over the past week set the stage for exciting prospects in the new year. A stealth startup called Scaled Inference Inc. fired the opening shot after closing a $13.6 million funding round to build an artificial intelligence service ...
HP storage boss tells why 3PAR is a secret weapon | #HPDiscover
Unifying existing infrastructure silos under a single point of control is the prevalent strategy for realizing the promise of the software-defined data center, but HP storage boss David Scott believes that isn’t enough. In his latest appearance on theCUBE, the veteran executive told hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante that building the enterprise environments of the ...
You won’t believe what office workers say is their top productivity tool
Old habits die hard in the office. The latest annual study from The Pew Research Center exploring productivity in the connected era has found that workers continue to rely on traditional communications channels more than ever even as technology moves forward at an accelerating pace. Over 60 percent of the 535 working adults who participated ...
MemSQL adds open-source connector to external data sources
MemSQL Inc. has returned to the limelight four months after its landmark funding round with the release of an open-source connector for its namesake database that simplifies the process of importing data from external sources. The launch is the latest milestone in the startup’s efforts to remove the barriers that keep information siloed in the enterprise. The ability ...
Amazon cloud led major rivals in 2014 availability
Amazon Web Services was the most reliable of the major cloud infrastructure operators in 2014, according to new year-end data from provider comparison service CloudHarmony, but it trailed many small regional and specialty rivals in base uptime, and lagged Google in the storage area. Amazon boasted a comfortable lead over its largest competitors in the ...
Cisco continues security push with services acquisition
Continuing its campaign to become a major player in enterprise security, Cisco Systems Inc. has swooped up security consultancy Neohapsis Inc. Security has emerged as a major focus point for the company over the past two years. Cisco jump-started its efforts in July of 2013 with the purchase of intrusion detection provider Sourcefire Inc. and picked ...
Self-healing networks ease support burden on North Sea oil rigs
Remote locations are the bane of networking professionals, and the North Sea brings new meanings to the word “remote.” For Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd., which is one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in the world, maintaining connectivity to its offshore oil rigs was an expensive necessity. The company can’t afford to ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack rivals set aside differences
It was another productive week for the cloud as Symantec Corp. overcame its differences with the biggest backers of OpenStack to join the OpenStack Foundation as the much-buzzed-about project’s 16th gold sponsor. Symantec had already made numerous important contributions to the platform, particularly in the area of documentation. Symantec has been especially active in the development ...
What you missed in Big Data: Oracle takes consumer analytics to the next level
Not even the holidays can stop the analytics train. Last week saw Oracle kick its expansion strategy into high gear with the purchase of Datalogix Inc., a leading provider of consumer spending information that tracks more than $2 trillion in buying activity across some 110 million households. That massive treasure trove of data has attracted 650 customers ...