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Broadcom jumps the cellular baseband ship to escape competition
Semiconductor maker Broadcom announced this week that it has hired investment bank JP Morgan to help it exit the market for mobile baseband processors following years of unprofitability blamed on intense competition from the likes of Qualcomm and Intel. The move sent the company’s shares soaring 10 percent to over $35. Broadcom hopes to sell ...
Picking the best tool for the job: Hybrid vs. all-flash
Flash storage offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk. As Wikibon detailed in a February research alert, solid-state drives not only outperform their mechanical counterparts but require less power and space as well. And since they don’t have any moving parts, SSDs also generate less heat, which translates into a longer lifespan. Yet ...
For the sake of business : SAP focuses on Hadoop, finance + new pricing
Enterprise workers today expect the same consumer-grade experiences in the workplace as they are used to in their private lives, a requirement that is driving demand for simplicity CIOs are struggling to address amid the proliferation of connected devices. That growing gap between what the business needs and what IT organizations can deliver is the ...
Hadoop vendors filling holes throughout entire analytics lifecycle | #HadoopSummit recap
The third annual Hadoop Summit in San Jose is off to a flying start with thousands in attendance and a record number of sponsors and exhibitors representing the full industry gamut, from incumbent vendors fighting to hold onto their turf to the ambitious startups looking to take their place. It’s the latter group that stole ...
Bright future ahead of Cloudera and Intel after mammoth $900M funding round
Just ahead of the third annual Hadoop Summit, which kicks off later this morning in San Jose, Cloudera revealed that it has closed the unprecedented $900 million round of funding it announced back in March. The financing includes a $160 million investment led by financial giant T. Rowe Price and another $740 million thrown in ...
Concurrent lands $10M to catalyze the Big Data app economy
Concurrent, a San Francisco-based startup working to simplify the development of applications atop Hadoop, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in Series B financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Existing backers Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the firm’s total funding to nearly $15 ...
HANA coming to RHEL as part of expanded Red Hat-SAP partnership
Applications can make or break an operating system. Microsoft’s snowballing success with Windows in the desktop market stands as the most notable example of that, but the same also holds true in mobile and the enterprise, where ecosystem support is often just as important as the platform itself. Red Hat has not lost sight of ...
Weekly Cloud review: clash of the IaaS titans
The world’s three largest cloud providers are at each others’ throats again after a series of updates that hasn’t proven quite as intensive as January’s industry-wide price war, but serves as a reminder that the competition is hotter than ever. Just as in the previous skirmish, it was Google that fired the opening shot, this ...
This week in Big Data: New twists on databases and ETL
Traditional data management tools are being reinvented for the era of unstructured information in an effort by vendors to the apply lessons from yesteryear to solve the new set of challenges enterprise CIOs are struggling with today. Even Oracle is getting in on the action. The company on Tuesday launched a centralized management tool for ...
Trifacta nabs $25M from top SV investors for data transformation tech
Even more difficult than taming vast amounts of information from an almost as expansive array of sources in a controlled environment that allows for further processing is turning raw output into useful knowledge users can exploit to make better decisions. The main operational challenge in that portion of the analytics lifecycle stems from the large ...