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VCE unveils industry’s first all-flash converged appliance and more in landmark launch
VCE is kicking off the week with the introduction of seven new converged infrastructure solutions that set several records both within its own portfolio and for the broader marketplace. The launch represents one of the most significant yet for the firm, a joint venture between stalwart EMC Corp. and networking kingpin Cisco Systems Inc. tasked ...
The inside track on Oracle’s open-source strategy | #OOW14
Oracle Corp. and the term “open-source” are rarely featured in the same sentence, but according to the man who leads the development of the firm’s community databases, it’s actively trying to participate in the ecosystem.. Not only that, but the movement represents a key component of the vendor’s long-term product strategy. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE ...
Couchbase Server 3.0 turns up the memory valve to power new use cases
Couchbase Inc. is doubling down on the in-memory component of its namesake database with a new version it calls the most significant iteration of the platform in its three-year history. Among the more than 200 features and enhancements introduced with the landmark update are several distinctive capabilities that up the performance ante against competing non-relational ...
ARM builds a free OS for the Internet of Things to block out rivals
ARM Holdings Inc., the company behind 99 percent of the world’s mobile chips, is pushing up the competitive food chain with a free operating system for embedded processors that aims to solidify its grip on the burgeoning connected universe and open a lucrative new revenue stream in the process. The pivot comes as arch-rival Intel ...
What you missed in Big Data: real-time analytics racing forward in the enterprise
Real-time processing has been the dominant theme in the analytics world this past week, with several major updates from different parts of the industry adding up to provide a sudden burst of momentum for the fast-emerging paradigm. It all started when Apache Storm graduated from incubation to take its place among the top-level projects that ...
What you missed in Cloud: the biggest names in enterprise tech advance on Amazon’s turf
The war over the public cloud moved up several notches in the past week after top enterprise vendors made a series of landmark advances that significantly raise the stakes for market leader Amazon.com Inc. as it works to capture a bigger slice of enterprise technology spending. Cisco Systems Inc. set the pace on Monday with ...
CrowdChat empowers CSC to drive unprecedented engagement, says CTO | #OOW14
Until not so long ago, communications between senior management and the broader workforce at global firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) only went one way, resulting in a rigid atmosphere that didn’t afford the rank and file an active voice in their work. The advent of social media opened up a channel for dialogue ...
Bigwigs unite to promote open standards for telco networks
Déjà vu struck the networking industry on Tuesday when a coalition of leading vendors declared that they’ve joined forces under the banner of The Linux Foundation to develop open standards meant to accelerate the adoption of next generation solutions. The elevator pitch is practically identical to that of the OpenDaylight Project the same suppliers launched ...
After a year of incubation, Apache welcomes Storm into the Hadoop family
Real-time analysis in Hadoop moved a step closer to enterprise reality on Monday after the Apache Software Foundation promoted Storm to a top-level project. The status upgrade charts a future for the continued development of the platform under the same community umbrella that governs the batch processing framework and its sprawling component ecosystem. Like most ...
Oracle OpenWorld day 2: Mobile and verticals take center stage | #OOW14
After unloading the bulk of the updates to its core portfolio during the opening day of OpenWorld 2014, Oracle Corp. is shifting gears with a second batch of product reveals that moves the focus beyond traditional corporate apps to mobile workers, developers and vertical industries. . Mobile-first The poster child for the new direction is ...