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The elusive support story of software-defined data centers | #HPdiscover
The software-defined data center is a broad topic that extends beyond infrastructure to people and processes, but while the underlying technologies have garnered plenty of attention lately, the operational aspects of making the jump from legacy environments tend to get less buzz. That is especially true when it comes to professional support, an essential safety ...
What you missed in Big Data: On the bleeding edge
It’s been yet another exciting week in the fast-paced world of analytics with a string of updates spanning the entire data processing lifecycle, from the initial collection stage all the way to the visual presentation of the insights gained along the way. It was RapidMiner that fired the opening shot with the acquisition of fellow ...
What you missed in Cloud: the industry teams up against AWS
Alone, an independent infrastructure-as-a-service vendor has no hope of competing with Amazon on pricing or scale, but a coalition of small firms working in tandem to overthrow the retail giant may just have a fighting chance. That’s the thinking behind the OnApp Federation, a newly established network of some 167 providers from 43 countries that ...
Oracle buys LiveLOOK to plug user experience hole in its cloud portfolio
Cloud services and analytics hold tremendous potential to drive productivity improvements in the workplace, but technology is only as good as the user allows it to be, a detail that is often lost in the discussion about the trends disrupting the enterprise landscape today. Oracle, however, has not allowed that fact to escape its attention ...
Teradata teams up with MongoDB for IoT apps in a case of ‘old meets new’
Data warehouse veteran Teradata and NoSQL rising star MongoDB are joining forces in a landmark partnership to provide a new and flexible way for application developers to harness the growing amounts of fast-moving information coming out of the connected universe. As part of the alliance, the firms are developing a two-way connector that will link ...
Red Hat continues OpenStack push with latest acquisition
OpenStack holds the promise to provide a common cloud standard across on- and off-premise environments that is both simpler and more scalable than current data center architectures, and provides an alternative to Amazon AWS. But for the CIOs in the trenches, the sheer effort required to set up the platform creates deployment headwinds. As a result, more ...
Cisco’s latest buy secures telecom footprint amid shift to SDN
Cisco is shelling out $175 million in cash and retention-based incentives to buy a little-known service orchestration company called Tail-f in a bid to extend its ambitious Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative into the lucrative telecommunications market. The nine-year-old Swedish firm, which has raised over $6 million in funding to date, develops solutions designed to streamline ...
Zenoss taps veteran tech leader Greg Stock as CEO
With more and more hardware vendors moving up the stack to escape the accelerating commoditization of data center infrastructure, software providers like Zenoss are coming under increased pressure to differentiate against the fast-multiplying competition. The unified monitoring provider announced this week that it has appointed Greg Stock as CEO to chart a course through the ...
Converged network management, power boosts for NetApp’s latest storage suite
Not to be left in the dust amid the growing adoption of flash storage in the enterprise, NetApp is rolling out a new high-performance system designed to power the most resource-intensive of workloads while giving IT organizations the freedom to tailor their deployments to meet specific business requirements. The FAS8080 EX is the latest addition ...
Joining forces for predictive visualization : Two east coast firms take on Big Data
Datawatch and Quant5, two Massachusetts firms working to capitalize on the business world’s growing appetite for analytics, are combining their resources in a joint effort to level the playing field against their rivals. For a publicly-traded vendor that counts 496 of the Fortune 500 as customers, Datawatch has kept a low-profile. The nearly thirty-year-old company ...