Maria Deutscher
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Brocade brings a network perspective to Big Blue’s enterprise roadmap | #IBMedge
Infrastructure is often only thought of in terms of the big picture, with little or no attention given to the fact that the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts. That reality is only now beginning to sink in among decision makers as industry efforts to decouple management functionality from the ...
HP injects more Hadoop into Vertica with Dragline
The race to deliver the industry’s first end-to-end Big Data platform continues apace. Hewlett-Packard this week pulled the curtains back on a new version of its Vertica analytic database that makes processing large volumes of highly varied information more feasible for economic-minded organizations with existing technology investments to sustain. Dragline, as the new release is ...
Counter Google’s dismal diversity data with innovation : Hats off to women in tech
Many in Silicon Valley look to Google as a role model, but while it may be performing well in the marketplace, it’s far from perfect. Like the majority of large companies in the technology sector, the search giant is guilty of allowing workplace inequality, but whereas others have historically been reluctant to share internal statistics, ...
RedPoint hopes to narrow Hadoop skills gap with YARN-based data integration platform
The U.S. could face a shortage of up to 190,000 workers with analytical skills by 2018, according to an ominous 2011 McKinsey study that hardly ever seems to go unmentioned whenever data science is involved. But as the deadline to bridge the skills divide edges closer, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the gap is shrinking ...
Integration + iteration : Key components of Big Blue’s storage success | #IBMedge
The staggering pace of technological change can sometimes make it seem like startups have an inherent edge over their slower moving incumbent rivals when it comes to innovation. But in some cases, being evolutionarily is just as good as being revolutionary, if not better. IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a testament to that. Born ...
Oracle reaffirms support for MySQL with centralized management tool for large-scale deployments
With the digital universe set to reach 40 zettabytes by 2020, the needless repetition involved in managing information silos individually, as has been done in the past, is becoming less and less acceptable for resource-strapped IT organizations already stretched thin. Yet so far, the world’s most popular open source database didn’t allow for centralized administration, ...
Private infrastructure is the cornerstone of hybrid computing, says EMC cloud chief | #EMCworld
Over the last few years, EMC World has evolved from just another storage show to a well-rounded industry event that not only focuses on the company itself but its partners and the key trends shaping the broader market as well. The main theme at this year’s conference, which took place earlier this month in Las ...
HP’s $1BN cloud push spawns hybrid platform for high-risk government data
Although Hewlett-Packard’s pledge to invest $1 billion in cloud services came two months after Cisco’s, a move that was itself a response to a similar commitment made by IBM back in January, it’s already lapping ahead in the hybrid computing race. The hardware maker hopes to press its advantage with a new platform aimed at ...
Data efficiency is the ultimate differentiator in storage, says Permabit CEO | #IBMedge
The exponential growth of unstructured information within the enterprise is not only driving demand for storage capacity but also putting increased pressure on IT organizations to make more out of their infrastructure, a challenge that Tom Cook, the CEO of deduplication specialist Permabit, says is shifting the competitive focus to software. He stopped by theCUBE ...
What you missed in Cloud: Analytics-as-a-Service model continues momentum
Following their users’ lead, on-premise software vendors are moving en masse to the cloud, shifting their entire revenue streams in the process. As one of the world’s largest and most entranced business intelligence providers, SAP faces a tougher task than most. The firm boasts a uniquely broad portfolio that it had spent decades and tens ...