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Embracing OpenStack, VMware gives “integrated stack” a whole new meaning at VMworld 2014
After months of speculation topped with a string of earlier-than-expected product announcements in the week leading up to the conference, VMworld 2014 is finally here, and it’s living up the hype. VMworld Inc. kicked off the first day of its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco with the formal introduction of the hush-hush project that ...
HP retools its storage stack for the software-defined data center
Following in the footsteps of rivals EMC Corp. and IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. is working to adapt its storage stack for the increasingly heterogeneous and centralized nature of IT infrastructure. The hardware giant took another step forward today with a fresh batch of updates that take direct aim at the software-defined data center. HP’s latest product ...
Practitioners, not vendors, drive value from analytics | #HPBigData2014
The true value of data analytics is not measured by the market caps of the top vendors or average industry revenue growth, but by what users can accomplish leveraging the technology, the possibilities for which extend far beyond merely boosting the bottom line. That was the underlying theme at the recently concluded HP Vertica Big ...
VMware signals big expansion plans in runup to VMworld
VMworld doesn’t start until today, but the floodgates are already wide open. VMware Inc. set the tone for its much-anticipated event after leaking a series of major updates that would normally have been reserved for the keynote address days ahead of the official kickoff, beginning with one of its most important acquisitions in recent memory. ...
Millions of patients’ data hacked in “first confirmed” Heartbleed heist
Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc. has become the latest U.S. institution to come forward about falling victim to Chinese hackers after admitting in an SEC filing last week that personally identifiable information about millions of patients was stolen over the course of two separate attacks in April and June. An investigation conducted on behalf of ...
VMware revamps its public cloud with a new name, cleaner partner program
As its annual customer conference opens in San Francisco this week, VMware Inc. is providing a taste of things to come with the release of two significant cosmetic updates for its public cloud that send a message of seriousness to the ecosystem and partners in particular. First, the virtualization giant has rebranded the platform from ...
Software is eating data science | #HPBigData2014
Automation is sending the data scientist the same way as the switchboard operator, according to Brian Weiss, the man who Hewlett-Packard Co. appointed to help along the transition. As the head of subject matter experts for the company’s Autonomy business, he is in charge of finding specialists with deep knowledge in their respective fields and ...
Toppling the operational obstacles behind McGladrey’s Backup-as-a-Service | #CubeConversations
Keeping an entire enterprise’s worth of information protected is no simple task, let alone if that company happens to employ a geographically distributed organizational structure and competes in an industry where the storage and management of data is heavily regulated. That’s the situation at McGladrey LLP, whose head of infrastructure, Tom Jackson, appeared on the ...
Steve Ballmer officially departs Microsoft leadership with board resignation
Six months after passing over the torch to Satya Nadella, former Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his resignation from the board of directors with a heartfelt letter urging his successor to avoid making the same mistakes he did. Hand picked by Bill Gates in 1980 as the then-emerging operating system maker’s first business ...
Canadian startup nets $1.1M for its bid to build analytics for the rest of us
Enterprises have largely caught on to the potential of Big Data analytics, but the complexity of digesting and interpreting data has left many small companies out of the loop. Toronto-based startup Vantage Analytics, Inc. just raised $1.1 million in seed capital to fund its effort to deliver a suite of modules for Shopify Inc.’s popular e-commerce ...