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Day 2 of #EMCworld marks another strategic landmark for the federation | #EMCworld
The second day of EMC World 2014 proved just as eventful as the first, with the storage stalwart and its subsidiaries launching another barrage of product announcements in a pivot towards the elusive “third platform for IT”, the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon CTO Dave ...
Big Data meets hybrid computing in latest cloud trends
In response to increased pressure from emerging competition in the cloud analytics market, the incumbent vendors are tapping into their large install bases to try and push the envelope with new offerings spanning both on- and off-premise environments. That has been a major theme in the industry for the last few days, with the EMC ...
EMC jumps on the hybrid cloud bandwagon with ViPR reference design + new offerings
Continuing the “third platform for IT” theme at its annual customer conference this week, EMC has unloaded another batch of product updates on Tuesday, with the focus this time around being hybrid cloud computing. As a reminder, the first day of EMC World 2014 saw the announcement of several new and updated solutions, including a ...
Zettaset hardens Hadoop environments with HBase security tool
Zettaset, a five year-old startup that develops software for managing Hadoop clusters, is extending its flagship Orchestrator product deeper into the technology ecosystem around the batch processing platform with a new feature called HBase Security. The upgrade marks a continuation of the company’s efforts to harden the core open source components of modern analytics infrastructure ...
How Treasure Data can stay cool in competitive Big Data market
Growing interest in cloud services is driving the emergence of a new wave of startups that are applying the managed services model to analytics in hopes of setting themselves apart from the on-premise vendors reigning over the enterprise market today. There’s a lot of hype out there, but the benefits are very much real: the ...
The brains behind SAP HANA quits post on backdrop of board shuffle
The latest reshuffle in SAP’s top ranks is bittersweet. The German business intelligence (BI) giant has gained a CIO and four new board members, all company veterans with decades of industry experience under their belts, but lost the mastermind behind its HANA in-memory database. The platform is the lynchpin for the company’s plan to shift ...
EMC builds a bridge to the “3rd Platform of IT” with new hyperscale module + ViPR 2.0
The megatrends of cloud computing, analytics, social media and mobility are on a collision course for what IDC refers to as the “third platform for IT”, a term that the research firm had coined in a late 2012 forecast and represents the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. Nearly two years later, ...
Delivering stability through the open hybrid cloud | #RHsummit
During his address at VMworld 2008, VMware’s then-CEO Paul Maritz famously remarked that “the traditional operating system has all but disappeared” in the data center. The former Microsoft executive, who presently runs EMC cloud analytics spin-off Pivotal, was talking not so much about a particular platform (although he did point a finger towards Windows multiple ...
What you missed in Big Data: business users once again in the spotlight
Business intelligence software (BI) has become ubiquitous in the enterprise over the last two decades, but while deployment rates may as high as ever, there exists a large gap between ownership and actual usage that is costing CIOs in unnecessary license fees. The average knowledge worker no longer spends most of their day trying to ...
EMC’s friends and foes step up their game
As the world’s biggest storage vendor, EMC regularly finds itself at the center of attention in IT industry circles, both among partners and rivals. We’ve seen that yet again this week following two significant ecosystem updates, the most important of which is the harmonization of the VCE channel program. Established in 2009 as a joint ...