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Broadcom leaves Internet of Things group it helped found
Broadcom Inc. has quietly left a key industry consortium that is trying to bring much needed communications standards to the connected universe in what marks the first major setback on the long and predictably bumpy road toward universal interoperability. Broadcom was one of the six vendors that helped launch the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) in July ...
Attunity takes aim at Syncsort with Hadoop replication tool
Attunity Ltd. is using the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week to pull the curtains back on a new release of its core replication software that promises to make it easier than ever to pull legacy data into the batch analytics platform. Data migration is shaping up to be a major ...
Cloudera broadens appeal, targets hybrid clouds in major update
Cloudera Inc. is coming prepared to the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week. The company fired the opening shot for the landmark conference last night with a volley of major updates that significantly up the ante for rival Hortonworks Inc. The launch represents the first major update from Cloudera since ...
Eyeing unstructured data, EMC throws Isilon’s weight behind Cloudera Hadoop
Enterprise storage juggernaut EMC Corp. is rolling out support for Cloudera Inc.’s market-leading Hadoop distribution to its Isilon line of scale-out arrays in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the unstructured data pie, which is expected to account for 79.2 percent of all capacity shipped by 2017. The move is equal part necessary ...
With EMC, Lumenate is taking the 4 Ps approach to protecting its data | #CubeConversations
In the marketing world, the “four Ps” stand for price, product, promotion, and place. Lumenate Technologies LP has adapted the age-old formula for an entirely different item on the corporate agenda: data protection. Jamie Shepard, who heads backup and recovery operations for the Texas firm, returned to theCUBE for the second time in as many months ...
MongoDB gets more scalable with refocused (hybrid) cloud management service
MongoDB Inc. is stepping up efforts to monetize its wildly popular open-source database with a major upgrade to its complementary management service designed to taking some of the hassle out of configuring and provisioning the system. The launch comes as Oracle Corp., the kingpin of the enterprise database market, is also ramping up its cloud ...
Startup VoloMetrix nets $12M for people-focused analytics
There are countless solutions that apply analytics to streamlining the flow of enterprise operations, but the people who make the corporate machine tick don’t get as much attention. Startup VoloMetrix Inc. raised $12 million in Series B funding on Monday to fill the gap and help organizations improve the efficiency of their employees. Founded in ...
Box acquires medical collaboration startup MedXT to accelerate vertical pivot
Corporate file sharing powerhouse Box Inc. stepped up its efforts to reach vertical markets last week by announcing plans to acquire MedXT Inc., a little-known startup with a service for sharing medical data. No financial terms were disclosed. MedXT is the second graduate of the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator to have been picked up by ...
The Internet of Things will function like an organism, says Cisco exec | #Splunkconf
Today’s web is mostly the domain of people, but the Internet of Things is about to change all that, according to Cisco vice president of advanced services Sanjay Pol. Speaking on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded Splunk Worldwide Users Conference, Pol predicted that tomorrow’s Internet of Things will be as much about the devices as ...
Syncsort and Splunk cozy up to improve mainframe data analysis | #Splunkconf
Splunk Inc. provides a comprehensive platform for collecting and analyzing logs from a broad spectrum of devices ranging from the tiniest of sensors to the biggest and meanest enterprise servers. But the company’s definition of “comprehensive “didn’t extend to mainframes until late last month then Syncsort Inc., a mainstay of the big iron world, introduced a ...