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Where networking fits into the hyperscale puzzle | #CubeConversations
The technologies pioneered by the world’s largest Internet companies to create so-called hyperscale environments that can cost-effectively keep up with the data explosion are trickling down into the traditional enterprise as the increasingly intertwined open-source and vendor communities work to lower barriers to entry. Emulex is right in the thick of things. Mike Jochimsen, the ...
Enterprise flash market sees first billion-dollar exit : SanDisk gobbles up Fusion-io
SanDisk is buying Fusion-io in a bid to capitalize on increasing demand for solid-state memory in the enterprise space, which is seeing rapid volume growth and higher margins than its core consumer products. That combination offers escape from the accelerating commoditization that threatens the Milpitas, California-based company’s bottom line. The all-cash acquisition is valued at approximately $1.1 billion, which makes it the ...
What you missed in Cloud : Tiptoeing around the race to zero
Vendors are coming up with new and creative ways to avoid being sucked into the price war raging among Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the infrastructure-as-a-service market. IBM, for its part, is simply steering clear of the pay-as-you-go model and sticking with the subscription-based pricing scheme of SoftLayer, the hosting provider it picked up last ...
Infosys’ new CEO hire marks shift to higher margin software products
In conjunction with a rekindling of rumors that celebrated Cisco boss John Chambers may soon step down, Infosys has named Dr. Vishal Sikka as its first outside chief executive. The historic appointment comes just over a month after the veteran technology and business leader departed SAP, where he spearheaded the development of the HANA in-memory ...
The insider perspective on EMC’s data protection-as-a-service pivot | #EMCworld
It’s sometimes hard for a company the size of EMC to keep up with its smaller and nimbler startup rivals amid the accelerating pace of technological change, but the challenge is worth it, according to the storage stalwart’s head of data protection and availability business, Stephen Manley. In his latest appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, he ...
What you missed in Big Data: Democratizing analytics
Accessibility has turned out to be the unifying theme for analytics this week, with a slew of updates pushing the envelope on ingesting and processing data. Taking the cake is Facebook’s decision to open-source Haxl, an internally-developed library designed to make it easier to pull information from multiple sources. Written in Haskell, a language that ...
At HP, change starts at the top | #HPdiscover
When Meg Whitman took over the reins as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 2011, the former eBay head and one time candidate for California governor told investors she will turn the struggling hardware maker around within five years. Three and half years later, Whitman is on her way to fulfilling that promise. The executive brought ...
Nokia bolsters location services with two Big Data buys in two weeks
Nokia may no longer be in the business of making smartphones and tablets, but that doesn’t mean it can be crossed off in the mobile race just yet. The sale of its handset business to Microsoft for roughly $7.2 billion left the once-dominant Finnish firm with a largely intact patent portfolio, an active telecommunications equipment ...
Insider chatter suggests Cisco’s next for major leadership change
Four months after the appointment of Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s CEO, rumors are swirling that another major technology company is gearing up for a leadership shakeup that could prove no less significant for the industry. A new report by veteran analyst and theCUBE alumnus Scott Raynovich claims that Cisco, the world’s largest maker of data ...
SiSense, Robin Hood of Big Data, bags $30M to democratize analytics
Of the hundreds of startups that sprang up in the wake of the data explosion to help organizations bring their vast troves of unstructured information under control, SiSense is among the most convincing. The company, which describes itself as the “Robin Hood” of the business intelligence market on its website, offers a complete analytics package ...