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Symantec boosts OpenStack Foundation even as it sues some members
The OpenStack Foundation accepted Symantec Corp. into its exclusive club of Gold-level sponsors this week, citing its substantial contributions to the cloud operating system. The move marks a major step forward for the security vendor’s involvement with the project, with which it has had a somewhat tumultuous prior relationship. Symantec has been active in development ...
HP thinks it’s got a better way to run Hadoop | #HPdiscover
Running Hadoop on converged infrastructure is not a particularly attractive proposition. The massive workloads that the data-crunching framework is designed to handle require an entirely different ratio of compute and storage resources than the typical enterprise application demands. That balance can be all but impossible to cost-effectively address when the two come in a single ...
Judge refuses to lift Autonomy albatross from HP’s neck
The botched acquisition of Autonomy Corp., keeps coming back to haunt Hewlett-Packard Co.. Three years and a leadership change after plunking down $11.7 billion for the British analytics provider, HP has hit another legal stumbling block as a U.S. District Judge on Friday rejected a settlement that would have released company executives from culpability. Judge Charles Breyer ...
Oracle gobbles up Datalogix as it courts marketers with cloud services
Oracle gave itself an early Christmas present on Monday with the acquisition of Datalogix Inc., a top supplier of consumer spending information for use in analytics. No financial details were disclosed for the deal, which is the latest in a string of acquisitions intended to make the database giant’s cloud platform more attractive to marketing ...
Why rapid tech change demands better internal consensus-building | #HPDiscover
When an enterprise sets out to streamline operations or pursue new business opportunities, technology considerations often jump to the top of the agenda, edging out the important organizational challenges that need to be addressed, said Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Chris Coggrave in a recent appearance on theCUBE. As the chief technologist for the data center giant’s $4.8 billion ...
What you missed in Cloud: Microsoft ups the ante against competitors
Microsoft pulled the curtains back on a landmark update for Azure that takes direct aim at the workloads organizations keep behind the firewall. Coming just over a month after “human error” took down the infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the new release features reliability features that make it possible for users to access on-premise workloads without fear of ...
What you missed in Big Data: Google prospects for cloud analytics gold
It was an unusual week in the analytics ecosystem as Hadoop monetarily stepped aside to let Google occupy the spotlight when it opened its cloud-based alternative to developers with the release of an open-source SDK designed to simplify the creation of Big Data processing services. The move raises the stakes in the race to bring about ...
Flash storage about to hit “hockey stick” growth curve, says HP exec | #HPdiscover
With some forecasters now expecting the cost of flash storage to fall below that of spinning-disk storage within the next couple of years, adoption is starting to rise in what Craig Nunes of Hewlett-Packard Co. described as a “hockey stick” curve during his latest appearance on theCUBE. “If you can get the affordability right on ...
Exact Labs lands $13 million to bring voice recognition to the enterprise
Between Siri on iOS and Google’s rivaling artificial intelligence for Android, voice recognition software has become practically ubiquitous in the consumer world. But corporate applications beyond the call center are still rare. A new startup called Expect Labs Inc. just closed a $13 million funding round for its quest to change that. Its funding comes from ...
Aerospike beefs up NoSQL database with enterprise- and Hadoop-friendly features
Aerospike, Inc. unleashed a broad set of new features for its flagship in-memory database that provides developers with more flexibility in how they build their applications and addresses several key enterprise requirements. The launch marks the biggest update for the platform since the company released the underlying code to the open-source community in June. It’s ...