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Cisco and Microsoft link up to push mutual cloud agenda
Another day, another landmark alliance. Except this time, the parties involved are not a pair of up-and-coming startups but Cisco and Microsoft, leaders in their respective markets that, despite their size, have not yet been able to catch up to Amazon in the public cloud. The main focus of this partnership is driving sales growth. ...
SAP goes after SMBs with new dedicated business group
The reality is that small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) account for nearly half of the world’s gross domestic income. That makes the low-end of the market an unavoidable underpinning for even the largest of vendors, including SAP, which is now going after the ma and pa shops with a dedicated group that will focus entirely ...
How and why flash is eating the world | #CubeConversations
By now, the industry has more or less reached a consensus that solid-state memory is a game changer for enterprise storage, but the question of exactly how big of an impact it will have on the way organizations store and access their data still persists. Stu Miniman, the resident software-led infrastructure analyst at Wikibon, appeared ...
Analytics break: Oracle whips out the Big (Data) guns as rivals expand to new territory
The modern data management landscape is dotted by new players seeking to secure their very own slice of the increasingly lucrative analytics pie, but the incumbent vendors continue to rein at the top of the table, their presence felt as strong as ever. That’s been especially true these past few days as three of the ...
Cloud break: Amazon and Microsoft square off in the channel
The cloud war continues to expand beyond the quest to win the hearts and minds of CIOs to include the partner ecosystem, which is playing an increasingly important role in driving the adoption of managed services. In one of the latest development, NGINX, Inc., the company behind the widely-used reverse proxy server of the same name, ...
Is the chief data officer a passing fad? | #CubeConversations
Data analysis is as much about people and processes as it about the technology that makes separating the signal from the noise possible in the first place. But while the overwhelming majority of organizations have adjusted to the new reality of information-driven decisions, at least conceptually, finding professionals with the necessary skills to uncover actionable ...
Oracle jumps into the SQL-on-Hadoop fray with would-be Teradata QueryGrid killer
Just a few years after the concept of structured query tools was first introduced, there are already dozens of vendors offering SQL capabilities for the batch processing platform, from small-time players such as Hadapt and Splice Machine to industry bigwigs like Cloudera. But despite the tremendous market saturation, the latest company to hop on the ...
HP confident it can lead the journey to hybrid clouds | #HPdiscover
Two and a half years after Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman named it as a top priority in her five-year turnaround plan, the cloud remains the former eBay head’s main agenda item. The company recently unified its hybrid computing efforts under the Helion brand in a renewed push for dominance. Steven Dietch and Kerry Bailey, the ...
Microsoft adds business continuity to cloud computing mosaic
Microsoft is continuing along its journey to piece together a hybrid cloud stack at a steady pace, following up the recent introduction of two new Azure-enabled storage arrays with a tuck-in acquisition aimed at positioning the platform-as-a-service as a more viable data protection solution for the traditional enterprise. The software stalwart has gobbled up InMage ...
Salesforce’s bold data play spends $390M for rival RelateIQ
There is no escape from the data analytics tsunami, not even for the world’s top customer relationship management (CRM) firm. Salesforce.com has long offered subscribers access to partner-developed services for uncovering and visualizing insights through its AppExchange marketplace, and provides native reporting capabilities that were recently extended to its application development platform. But in the ...