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Jaspersoft fuels innovation groove with another acquisition
Maintaining momentum after an acquisition is easier said than done in the world of enterprise computing, especially when the purchasing company is a traditional vendor and the new team is coming from a startup environment with a fast-paced culture to match. But Jaspersoft shows no signs of slowing down following its recent sale to incumbent ...
Infrastructure is the name of the game at HP Discover 2014
Hewlett-Packard has not left a stone unturned at its HP Discover summit this week, unloading a slew of products as part of a two-pronged push into the hybrid cloud and the high-performance computing market, where it had long maintained a position as a component supplier but never attempted to compete over the lucrative supercomputer deals ...
Data protection in the era of unstructured information | #EMCWorld
A lot has changed at Brown since Nancy Magers, the university’s associate director of storage and disaster recovery, last appeared on theCUBE in April. The Ivy League school is now finally starting to see the first fruits of its years-long data center modernization effort while new priorities are making their way onto the agenda as ...
QLogic mourns chairman’s sudden passing
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic announced on Monday that H.K. Desai, a long time company veteran who most recently served as executive chairman and the head of its board, has passed away Sunday from sudden cardiac arrest. He was 68. Desai joined QLogic in August 1995 and secured a permanent position at the firm’s ...
Hadoop security back in the spotlight
Data security is becoming an even bigger priority than it has been so far as organizations extract more value from their fast-growing data troves, but Hadoop, the single most popular platform for storing and processing vast swaths of unstructured information, falls short of enterprise requirements on that front. The functionality gap is quickly narrowing, however, ...
Rethinking infrastructure : Facebook adds availability with HBase fork
Having reached a tipping point in the volume of unstructured information years before the new reality of data management dawned upon the rest of the industry, the world’s largest Internet companies had no choice but to come up with their own answers to the challenges at hand. Their pioneering efforts laid the groundwork for the ...
Docker leaps into production with version 1.0 | 15 months of milestones
Docker, the startup behind the popular open-source Linux containerization engine of the same name, is ready to take on the enterprise – or at least so it claims. The company officially completed the first leg of its ambitious development roadmap this morning with the launch of Docker 1.0, which brings the project a major step ...
What you missed in Cloud: where public meets private
The incumbents are no longer alone on the hybrid computing bandwagon. Amazon, the world’s largest provider of public cloud services, entered the fray this week with the release of a connector for VMware’s vCenter Server platform, which is used to manage environments running its widely-used ESXi hypervisor. The company touts that the integration allows virtualization ...
IBM flash array strategy mastermind talks tech + market trends | #IBMedge
Woody Hutsell had seen technologies come and go in the 14 years he’s been in the memory industry, but the underlying focus on enabling faster data access never changed. The former Texas Memory Systems (TMS) executive, who joined Big Blue following its acquisition of his old company to spearhead product strategy for the newly absorbed ...
theCUBE spotlight: Intel CIO Kim Stevenson’s key takeaways on the future of IT
In closing its latest round of funding, Cloudera has not only secured sufficient capital to fuel operations until its eventual public offering but also gained an important addition to the team in Kim Stevenson, the CIO of lead investor Intel. As the newest member of the Hadoop distributor’s board, the executive brings with her valuable ...