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HP Unveils “Industry-Leading” Network Fabric at Interop
Hewlett-Packard made the most out of its Interop conference last week. The hardware behemoth introduced a set of software-defined networking solutions that offer extended support for OpenFlow and bandwidth intensive technologies such as Hadoop. The most notable product that made its debut at the Las Vegas event is the FlexFabric 11908, which HP refers to ...
ServiceNow Founder Shares His Journey to the Ultimate ITSM Platform
Fred Luddy, founder of IT service management (ITSM) giant ServiceNow, addressed the latest news from his company and told the story behind its foundation in a two-part interview series that featured Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante and SiliconAngle’s Jeff Frick. In the first episode Luddy focused on the highlights from Knowledge13, his company’s sold-out customer ...
Derek Brost of eProtex Discusses Data Protection in the Healthcare Industry
Derek Brost, the chief security officer of eProtext, stopped by theCube at the ServiceNow Knowledge13 conference in Las Vegas to discuss his company and the healthcare industry’s Cybersecurity woes. He shared his take on these subjects and explained why his firm is using ServiceNow’s software in an interview with Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and SiliconAngle’s ...
Tegile Accelerates Hybrid Storage with Voonami Partnership
Tegile Systems, a provider of enterprise storage arrays that rely on flash to outperform traditional disk systems, announced a partnership with co-location provider Voonami. Under the agreement, Voonami’s managed replication service will be made available through the remote replication functionality built into Tegile’s hybrid Zebi box. The integration expands the two companies’ existing relationship. Previously, ...
Electricity Remains a Top Consideration in the Data Center
With all the fuss around emerging technologies such as Big Data and hyperscale computing, it seems as if more mundane priorities such as data center power efficiency have fallen to the sidelines. In fact, the opposite is true. General Motors recently open a multi-million dollar facility near its primary engineering center in Warren, Michigan. The ...
“Financial Uncertainty” Keeps Gov’t Away from Cloud : Sequestration Impacts IT Biz
Cisco and Brocade are blaming their weakened sales on softened government spending. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman discussed the impact of the federal budget sequestration on the big IT whales in a recent interview with SiliconAngle’s Kristin Feledy. Miniman says that financial uncertainty is driving government agencies to delay contracts and even cancel some of ...
BloomReach Launches Data-Driven Web Marketing Platform
BloomReach pulled the curtains back on its new Continuous Quality Management (CQM) platform, a so-called web relevance engine that leverages machine learning to gauge the quality of web pages. CQM breaks down quality into four metrics: relevance, popularity, uniqueness and freshness. Relevance is determined based on the correlation between the content of a page and ...
Top 2 Mega Trends for CIOs + Tips for the Vendors Selling to Them
Marina Levinson, the founding CEO of CIO Advisory Group, shared her insights into the IT market in a recent interview with Jeff Frick and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Levinson has been advising business and technology leaders for over 25 years, so she knows a thing or two about the industry. She made sure to highlight the ...
GM’s $130M Data Center Takes After Facebook, Runs Hadoop
General Motors has abandoned its multi-billion dollar outsourcing agreements with HP and other providers in favor of an internal hyperscale environment that runs Hadoop on low-cost x86 servers. This week the carmaker launched its first data center in Warren, Michigan. The $130 million facility, the first of two, can hold 20,000 square feet worth of ...
Big Data Must Be More Consumable : Overhype Drives Workers to Take Matters Into their Own Hands
Big Data’s been overhyped and is destined to become a buzz kill of a buzz word, largely because the promise of Big Data has left a huge gap between potential and actual application. Setting out to understand this gap, Kapow Software recently commissioned IDG Research Services to identify the top Big Data pain points for ...