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What you missed in Big Data: another spike the analytics investment chart
It’s been a historic week for the analytics market, with Hortonworks Inc. bagging $50 million in equity from Hewlett-Packard Co. as part of a broad strategic alliance that will focus on integrating the startup’s version of Hadoop with the HP HAVEn analytics suite. The move comes hot on the heels of Google’s venture capital arm ...
How Prodea is piecing together tomorrow’s smart home one service at a time | #CubeConversations
Although the smart home market already holds tremendous potential in its current fragmented form, Prodea Systems argues that the connected whole can be worth even more than the sum of its devices given the right catalyst. The eight-year-old company wants to be that catalyst. Led by serial entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, who holds the title of ...
VMware expands European cloud footprint with second UK data center
While some competitors opt to announce their cloud expansions 15 data centers at a time, VMware Inc. is taking a much more reserved approach to scaling its infrastructure footprint, sticking to one facility per press release. The company has been accelerating its expansion efforts over the last few months, though, as competitors have picked up ...
Inside Nimble’s cloud analytics op | #CubeConversations
Solid-state memory offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk, but when there are dozens of different vendors all touting the same value proposition, it becomes much more difficult for CIOs to cut through the jargon. It’s even harder for the suppliers themselves, especially newer players such as hybrid array maker Nimble Storage, which ...
SAP joins software rivals on the open cloud bandwagon
The old guard of the enterprise software industry has been charichastically slow to recognize the potential of OpenStack as a means of countering Amazon’s advance on its home turf, but it eventually adapted, at least to some extent, to the new reality of open cloud computing. That is, with the notable exception of SAP, which ...
Big Switch extends SDN vision to the physical plane
Four years after setting out to change how enterprise networks are operated with an overlay solution designed to provide a centralized management layer atop existing infrastructure, Big Switch Networks is rolling out a new platform aimed at disrupting the entire data transportation pyramid all the way down to the hardware. The change of direction introduces ...
Yahoo extends mobile footprint to app analytics with Flurry acquisition
With smartphones and tablets now accounting for more than half of the traffic to its services and related advertising revenue up more than 100 percent from last year, it’s only natural for Yahoo Inc. to want a bigger slice of the burgeoning mobile universe. The latest sub-segment that the struggling web giant has set its ...
In odd coupling, OpenStack purist Mirantis join with Oracle against common enemy Red Hat
Mirantis, Inc. took the mantra “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to a new extreme last week after announcing a partnership with Oracle Corp. which is traditionally of the most staunchly proprietary software vendors in the industry, to provide support for the latter’s cloud stack. The move seems odd at first glance since ...
VMware offers safe passage from lock-in with low-risk migration path
VMware is making it easier for organizations to migrate to its software with a new initiative that aims to address both the technical and financial barriers to moving off rivaling offerings. Safe Passage, as the program is known, is designed to drive adoption of its core end-point products: the Horizon suite of desktop virtualization and ...
BlackBerry CEO recruits another Sybase colleague to drive enterprise growth
If there’s a tech firm that has taken the old saying “change comes from the top” to the heart, it’s BlackBerry. Thankfully for the firm, the call had been heeded by CEO John Chen. Since tapping the software industry veteran last November to spearhead its uphill push to turn revenues around, the struggling phone maker ...