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What to watch at IBM Impact 2014: From SoftLayer app store to open-source hardware | #IBMimpact
The public cloud theme has predictably carried over from IBM’s February Pulse conference to its executive-oriented Impact summit in Las Vegas this week, where of many of the products that debuted three months ago are making an appearance once again in the company’s newly introduced enterprise app store. The rollout represents the latest and one ...
SoftWatch analytics tool tracks Office usage, reduces licensing costs
License optimization startup SoftWatch promises to help CIOs address Microsoft Office usage inefficiency as their companies contemplate transitioning from on-premise applications to cloud services. Tel Aviv-based SoftWatch today announced its new namesake online analytics tool that the company says helps CIOs identify savings opportunities based on Microsoft Office usage statistics. Despite the rapidly growing adoption of ...
How Fusion-io’s latest flash interface changes the game for web-scale applications | #CubeConversations
Unable to keep pace with Moore’s law, traditional disk storage has become the weak link in corporate IT environments, with the ever-widening I/O gap between processors and mechanical drivers (and historically just as significantly, the absence of a genuinely viable alternative) leaving developers no choice but to build artificial restrictions into their software. Flash has ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop applications Watson at the forefront
Data-driven applications returned to the headlines this week after Hortonworks announced that it will bundle the open source Cascading development framework into its flagship Hadoop distribution. Created and maintained by a company called Concurrent, Cascading is a Java-based abstraction layer that allows users to take advantage of the batch processing platform without mastering MapReduce or ...
Weekly Cloud review: from containers to Hadoop-powered hybrid security
It’s been yet another eventful week in the cloud, with Amazon adding support for the open source Docker Linux containerization engine to its Elastic Beanstalk service, which is used by application developers to automate certain administrative tasks such as capacity provisioning and load balancing. Practically unknown just a year ago, Docker is gaining a tremendous ...
IBM pushes the envelope on open source with latest Power servers
A week and a half after IBM Cloud and Smart Infrastructure head Deepak Advani took to the stage at Red Hat Summit to detail how big of a role open source technology has in his company’s long-term vision, Big Blue is putting its money where its mouth is with the introduction of new Power systems ...
Brown University’s data protection journey: from one-size-fits-all to DR-as-a-service | #CUBEConversations
The disaster recovery landscape has changed considerably over the last few years as disk-based backup appliances slowly but surely displaced legacy tape in enterprise environments, a transition that Brown University’s Nancy Magers says has enabled her team to reduce hardware costs and greatly improve data protection at the organizational level. She shared her journey with ...
We’re a partner in the industrialization of IT, says Red Hat CEO | #RHSummit
The Red Hat Summit is different than most other vendor shows in the sense that, although it naturally centers on the company and its particular vision for technology, it also places a large emphasis on the ecosystem. And that doesn’t just encompass customers and partners, but the upstream community projects for its solutions and outside ...
FICO gobbles up Hadoop startup Karmasphere
A good few years into the Big Data revolution, the market is finally seeing some much-needed consolidation as the competitive swimming lanes begin to crystallize and those that are unable to keep up in the race either go out of business or end up getting acquired. The latter has turned out to be the case ...
HP revives “bulletproof” XP storage family with new system
Converged infrastructure and flash may be all the rage these days, but disk arrays still form the backbone of enterprise storage environments. And even as the information explosion continues to gather pace, strengthening that existing foundation is often preferable to embracing a completely new technology, not only from a cost standpoint but also in regard ...