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IBM intros new storage systems for companies tackling IT megatrends | #IBMEdge
Approximately 70 percent of organizations worldwide recognize IT as a source of competitive advantage, yet less than 10 percent are equipped to address the perfect storm of megatrends sweeping through the workplace, according to a study of 750 companies IBM published this morning for the opening of its Edge2014 storage conference in Las Vegas. The ...
Weekly Cloud review: At the intersection of OpenStack and today’s public cloud reality
Like many of its traditional rivals, Oracle has adopted an ‘if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ attitude towards OpenStack in an implicit acknowledgment that the project is disrupting the proprietary systems and software that currently account for the bulk of its revenues. But the database maker has arrived late to the party, allowing the ...
What you missed in Big Data: startups return to the spotlight
The analytics space has seen a flurry of startup updates in the past week, beginning with the Monday release of Splice Machine’s Hadoop database into public beta. Unlike structured query engines such as Impala, which merely provide the ability to manipulate information stored in HDFS using SQL syntax, the firm’s platform offers a full-blown relational ...
IBM turns OpenStack into just another app on the app store
If its many proponents are to be believed, OpenStack is on a fast track to becoming the de facto standard for cloud computing. But while the promise of universal programmability across the data center is certainly appealing, complexity remains a major barrier to realizing that vision within the enterprise, with most IT organizations lacking the ...
How Treasure Data helped one of Japan’s largest retailers unlock its consumer insights trove
Although its name literally translates into “no-brand quality goods,” the Tokyo-listed Ryohin Keikaku, better known as Muji, is very serious about driving commercial awareness. Often referred to as the Ikea of Japan, the retailer has successfully carved out a niche for itself in the global market with a unique corporate philosophy that posits minimalism as ...
Pure Storage lowers the barriers to entry for flash, again
Pure Storage is continuing its mission to make all-flash storage systems more economically viable for traditional IT organizations with the introduction of a new entry-level array aimed at setting users on a pain-free path to workload acceleration. Unveiled this morning, the FA-405 squeezes over 40 terabytes of capacity into a 1U controller that Pure pegs ...
Hortonworks’ first acquisition is good news for the future of Hadoop security
As more Hadoop clusters move from pilot to production and enterprises continue to ingest growing amounts of key information about their operations and customers, the need to protect that data throughout the analytics lifecycle is becoming ever more urgent. But with traditional bolt-on solutions proving inadequate for defending against the threats facing organizations today, security ...
Simplicity is key to effectiveness at scale, says ViPR mastermind | #EMCworld
Although a significant (and highly touted) milestone in the company’s history, the first iteration of ViPR was only a stepping stone towards EMC’s vision for software-defined storage. Earlier this month at its annual customer conference, exactly one year after the platform made its original debut, the vendor pulled the curtains back on a new version ...
How converged infrastructure is shaking up global tech priorities | #EMCWorld 2014
VCE, the converged infrastructure venture between EMC and Cisco, has come a very long way since inception. In five short years, it had transformed from an underdog fighting an uphill battle to a definitive market leader, recently confirming to have surpassed annual revenues of $1 billion in 2013 on the back of rapidly accelerating global ...
Today in Cloud : The old guard riding the hybrid cloud gravy train
The hybrid cloud is becoming big business as the underlying technologies mature and vendors drive better value propositions for bridging disparate on- and off-premise environments. Leveraging their large install bases and existing mindshare among CIOs, the old guard of the IT industry is spearheading adoption in the traditional enterprise, with IBM at the forefront as ...