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Data boss spills the beans on his analytics strategy | #DellWorld
Over the span of a few years, Dell Inc. has managed to transform itself from a company best known for selling cheap computers to the masses into an enterprise technology powerhouse with a roughly two-billion-dollar software business. Much of that figure can be attributed to its information management group, whose vice president and general manager, ...
What you missing in Big Data: analyzing the here and now while predicting the tomorrow
Hadoop stands as a uniquely powerful tool for cost-effectively ingesting and processing vast amounts of unstructured information, but it doesn’t provide a means of delivering the resulting insights to users in the here and now. MapR Technologies Inc. moved the industry a step closer towards addressing that need last week after having its commercial version ...
Tegile makes all-flash storage more accessible with new arrays
Hybrid array maker Tegile Systems Inc. is pushing deeper into all-flash territory with two new appliances aimed at making the speedy storage accessible to a broader range of organizations. The launch comes as a response to similar gestures from competitors such as Hewlett-Packard Co., which jolted the market in August with the introduction of a ...
HP brings tech war chest to battle with flash array upgrades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is upping the ante in the battle for flash array dominance with new enhancements that the homegrown data services it has developed in recent years available to more customers. The move underscores the vendor’s emphasis on internal innovation, the result of financial challenges that have led CEO Meg Whitman to scale back on ...
More momentum for Docker with VMware veep hire, ecosystem funding
Docker Inc. seems to be gaining more momentum with each passing day as rising enterprise interest in containers nurtures a feedback loop of growth with it at the center. That traction is drawing all kinds of attention to the startup, not only from the developer and venture capital communities but also industry leaders such as Marianna ...
Workday pursues Oracle into the mobile-first analytics world with Insight Apps
Workday Inc. has revealed plans to put together a suite of mobile-first analytic applications promising to infuse data smarts into the daily grind of financial and human resource professionals. The move follows rival Oracle Corp. introducing its own line of niche utilities designed to help enterprise employees become more effective in how they tackle the ...
MapR and MongoDB forge landmark Hadoop-NoSQL alliance
Striking a strategic alliance, MapR Technologies Inc. and MongoDB Inc. bring their respective camps of the analytics movement closer together as growing enterprise adoption makes the need for pure-play vendors to provide interoperability with the rest of the data crunching stack ever more urgent. The move is highly beneficial for both firms. As the third biggest ...
Google wants to secure the Internet of Things the open-source way
Google Inc. has released the code for a tool called “nogotofail” thats its engineers have been using to check if network connections are properly encrypted to the open-source community. The move is a continuation of the search giant’s efforts to make the web safer amid the rapid growth in the variety and number of connected ...
Dell consolidates cloud strategy in a major evolution of its software push
Dell Inc. is known more for selling commodity hardware than providing cloud services, but now that it’s been taken private, the company is making serious strides towards reversing – or at least mitigate – the situation in a push to grow margins and escape mounting competition. The tech titan is moving down the same road ...
What comes with containers, managed VMs and enterprise connectivity? In cloud wars, Google ups the ante
Borrowing a page from the Amazon.com Inc. book of running cloud conferences, Google Inc. is kicking off its annual infrastructure-as-a-service summit in San Fransisco with a slew of new features that address the needs of both developers and enterprises. The bulk of the additions focus on making it easier to create and scale applications on ...