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Hadoop Loop: Amazon, Oracle Make Their Mark in Big Data-as-a-Service
In one of its latest reports, TechNavio forecasts that the Hadoop-as-a-Service market, which was worth around $131 million in 2012, will grow at an average annual growth rate of 95.16 percent over the course of the next few years. The firm estimates that Big Data-as-a-Service will rake in rake in $1.9 billion a year by 2016, ...
VMware Collaborates with Avaya in BYOD Space, Trims Fat
VMware is doubling down on the data center in response to growing competition from cloud providers, namely Amazon, and the increasing popularity of OpenStack in the enterprise. The channel is playing an important role in this agenda. This week, Avaya announced the launch of the Collaboration Pod, a converged infrastructure solutions that the firm pegs ...
Moonshot is Great for HP’s Big Data Line Up, But Needs More Unification
On Monday Hewlett-Packard pulled the covers off Moonshot, a revolutionary server built for ultra-efficient hyperscale environments. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discussed the debut of Moonshot on yesterday’s NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy. Kelly says that the solution HP unveiled this week is the product of a development effort the company first announced in November 2011. ...
Outsource Your Cloud? 5 Cloud Questions for SMB CIOs
CIOs working for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges that are typically not encountered by their peers in the enterprise space, writes Scott Lowe, founder and managing consultant of the 1610 Group. Lowe argues that while the question of whether to run on-premises workloads on physical hardware or virtual infrastructure has become easy ...
It’s Moonshot vs. ODMs : HP Has the Potential to Replace Today’s Blade Servers
Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer appeared on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show this morning to discuss the launch of Hewlett-Packard’s first Moonshot server, a power-efficient hyperscale box that is unique in the marketplace. Floyer says that HP has a history of introducing new technologies to the data center: the company was the first major vendor ...
The True Perk of HP Moonshot is Built-In Support for Alternate Architectures, a Win for SLI
It seems the entire industry, from the enterprise to hardware manufacturers, is rethinking datacenter design, making smarter decisions at every layer of the stack. This week brought a new disruption from none other than Hewlett-Packard, with the launch of Moonshot 1500, a new server that’s stronger, faster, and more energy-efficient. Is this revolutionary for the ...
Facebook Home : A Brilliant Software Strategy Paving the Way for Twitter + LinkedIn?
Last week Facebook unveiled Home, a social interface “launcher” for Android that turns your phone into a full-blown social media hub, complete with a notifications, instant messaging and a real-time activity feed. The company also announced a partnership with HTC to release a midrange phone specifically built for its upcoming app suite, which will launch ...
WANdisco Unveils New Version of Hadoop Distro
WANdisco, a relatively new name in the Big Data space, just unveiled the latest release of its Hadoop distribution. WANdisco Distro (WDD) version features a simplified interface, and introduces support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2, in addition to RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. “The integration of Hadoop into the mainstream enterprise ...
Xbox Stingray Could Take the Sting out of Aging Console Prices
Microsoft’s upcoming next-generation console, known as Xbox 720 or “Durango,” has received a lot of attention lately due to a report that alleged it may ship with an always-on DRM mechanism. A blogger by the name of Paul Thurrott is now claiming that the company might have yet another surprise in store for users, a ...
Industry Forces Team Up to Create Standardized SDN Platform
Today marks the debut of OpenDaylight, a new initiative meant to combat fragmentation in the rapidly growing software-defined networking space. The project is led by the Linux Foundation, and the formidable contributor list includes almost every prominent networking vendor: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, NEC, Arista, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Dell and IBM. Intel, Microsoft, Red Had, VMware and ...