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QLogic mourns chairman’s sudden passing
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic announced on Monday that H.K. Desai, a long time company veteran who most recently served as executive chairman and the head of its board, has passed away Sunday from sudden cardiac arrest. He was 68. Desai joined QLogic in August 1995 and secured a permanent position at the firm’s ...
Hadoop security back in the spotlight
Data security is becoming an even bigger priority than it has been so far as organizations extract more value from their fast-growing data troves, but Hadoop, the single most popular platform for storing and processing vast swaths of unstructured information, falls short of enterprise requirements on that front. The functionality gap is quickly narrowing, however, ...
Rethinking infrastructure : Facebook adds availability with HBase fork
Having reached a tipping point in the volume of unstructured information years before the new reality of data management dawned upon the rest of the industry, the world’s largest Internet companies had no choice but to come up with their own answers to the challenges at hand. Their pioneering efforts laid the groundwork for the ...
Docker leaps into production with version 1.0 | 15 months of milestones
Docker, the startup behind the popular open-source Linux containerization engine of the same name, is ready to take on the enterprise – or at least so it claims. The company officially completed the first leg of its ambitious development roadmap this morning with the launch of Docker 1.0, which brings the project a major step ...
What you missed in Cloud: where public meets private
The incumbents are no longer alone on the hybrid computing bandwagon. Amazon, the world’s largest provider of public cloud services, entered the fray this week with the release of a connector for VMware’s vCenter Server platform, which is used to manage environments running its widely-used ESXi hypervisor. The company touts that the integration allows virtualization ...
IBM flash array strategy mastermind talks tech + market trends | #IBMedge
Woody Hutsell had seen technologies come and go in the 14 years he’s been in the memory industry, but the underlying focus on enabling faster data access never changed. The former Texas Memory Systems (TMS) executive, who joined Big Blue following its acquisition of his old company to spearhead product strategy for the newly absorbed ...
theCUBE spotlight: Intel CIO Kim Stevenson’s key takeaways on the future of IT
In closing its latest round of funding, Cloudera has not only secured sufficient capital to fuel operations until its eventual public offering but also gained an important addition to the team in Kim Stevenson, the CIO of lead investor Intel. As the newest member of the Hadoop distributor’s board, the executive brings with her valuable ...
Broadcom jumps the cellular baseband ship to escape competition
Semiconductor maker Broadcom announced this week that it has hired investment bank JP Morgan to help it exit the market for mobile baseband processors following years of unprofitability blamed on intense competition from the likes of Qualcomm and Intel. The move sent the company’s shares soaring 10 percent to over $35. Broadcom hopes to sell ...
Picking the best tool for the job: Hybrid vs. all-flash
Flash storage offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk. As Wikibon detailed in a February research alert, solid-state drives not only outperform their mechanical counterparts but require less power and space as well. And since they don’t have any moving parts, SSDs also generate less heat, which translates into a longer lifespan. Yet ...
For the sake of business : SAP focuses on Hadoop, finance + new pricing
Enterprise workers today expect the same consumer-grade experiences in the workplace as they are used to in their private lives, a requirement that is driving demand for simplicity CIOs are struggling to address amid the proliferation of connected devices. That growing gap between what the business needs and what IT organizations can deliver is the ...