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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 ...
Open standards-based storage dominates conversation on Day 2 of #OpenStackSummit
The first day of this week’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta centered on hybrid computing and the new community marketplace the governing body of the project has rolled out in hopes of establishing greater product transparency across the ecosystem. Today brings a change of pace to the conference, with storage turning out to be the main theme ...
An insider’s look into EMC’s service provider strategy for the hybrid cloud era | #EMCworld
Enterprise budgeting for services is outpacing overall IT spending and shows no sign of slowing in the foreseeable future, a trend that has led EMC to revisit its partnering strategy and implement a new channel framework that goes beyond the traditional requirements of resellers and systems integrators. David Trigg, the driving force behind this well-timed ...
With Cascading 3.0, application developers can operationalize the Hadoop ecosystem
Concurrent, an up-and-coming startup working to simplify the creation of data-driven applications, has pulled the curtains back on a revamped version of its flagship development framework that facilitates integration across the full spectrum of technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem to enable an entirely new set of use cases. Cascading, as the San Francisco-based company’s software ...
OpenStack Summit 2014 marked by series of ecosystem product milestones
The opening day of this week’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta has brought with it the usual slew of product updates from around the industry. It was Red Hat that opened the floodgates with the announcement of two new strategic partnerships underscoring its aggressive focus on operationalizing the open source cloud platform atop Linux. First, the ...