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On an acquisition spree, Cisco adds to its IoT toolbelt
The proliferation of connected devices in the workplace is putting more pressure on the corporate network than ever before, driving the need for a new approach to infrastructure management that can deliver the sustainable scalability required to support that growth. But although central, the changes occurring under the hood are only one part of the ...
An insider’s glimpse into the tech side of healthcare | #HPdiscover
With nearly 200 service locations and over 20,000 employees, Spectrum Health is Western Michigan’s biggest not-for-profit organization and one of the largest hospital operators in the state. As such, it carries responsibility not only for the welfare of the communities it serves but the security and effective delivery of petabytes worth of sensitive medical information ...
Weekly Cloud review: startup funding and hyperscale data centers
The scalability, performance and operational efficiencies afforded by the hyperscale model employed today in the world’s largest data centers are slowly but surely being brought into the reach of traditional enterprises, one open-source project at the time. At the forefront of the trend is CoreOS, a bare-bone Linux distribution that entered beta testing in May ...
SAP sets out to turbo-charge real-time analytics
Seeking to take advantage of the surging interest in real-time analytics, SAP announced a landmark partnership that binds Databricks’ Apache Spark 1.0 distribution to SAP’s HANA real-time analytics platform. Databricks is a year-old startup is led by the original developers of Apache Spark, which is considered a rising star of the Hadoop ecosystem. SiliconANGLE founder John ...
Dataguise enters the governance horse race with new suite
Having established a name for itself as a provider of Big Data security tools, Dataguise is is tackling governance. The company used last week’s concluded Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington to announce the immediate availability of a new suite of tools aimed at making it easier for CIOs to manage policies, access ...
DataStax becomes latest vendor to jump on the Apache Spark bandwagon
The limitation of historical data analysis as a forecasting tool is spawning a rush by analytics providers to add real-time processing functionality to their offerings. DataStax, a company that sells an analytics suite based upon the Apache Cassandra NoSQL engine, is the latest to join the back. Cassandra is an open-source database that’s used to ...
Straight from the source: HP’s cloud value proposition | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard may not be as far along the hybrid computing journey as some other major data center vendors, but the company is quickly closing the gap, recently unifying its once largely fragmented cloud portfolio under the Helion brand in an important first step towards delivering a cohesive value proposition. Bobby Patrick, the driving force behind ...
What you missed in Big Data: back to bread and butter with Hadoop and NoSQL
This week saw the usual slew of updates in the Hadoop and NoSQL ecosystems, beginning with database maker RainStor unleashing an augmented version of its flagship platform that introduces new archiving capabilities for the batch processing framework. The aptly named Archive Application for Hadoop 2.0 included in RainStor 6 utilizes the company’s existing structured query ...
Enter HyperCat: consortium delivers first phase of UK-backed IoT data standard
At the most fundamental level, the objects that make up the Internet of Things are not all that different. Every connected device that shares information with the world provides a RESTful interface for others to access it, formats the data in JSON to organize the contents and utilizes HTTPS to provide protection in transit. But ...
Weekly Cloud review: analytics meet the as-a-service model
The simplicity and scalability offered by cloud computing make the model highly complementary to analytics, as evident by the fast growing amounts of business information being shipped off-premise for processing, but decision makers are only now beginning to realize that the same also holds the other way around. That recognition is rapidly picking up steam ...