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QLogic doubles down on growth areas + reasserts Fibre Channel dominance with Broadcom patent deal
QLogic, which earlier this month marked the tenth consecutive year as the largest vendor of Fibre Channel (FC) adapters by market share, is investing heavily to sustain its edge over the competition. Defying the weakening demand for the technology, the Aliso Viejo, California-based manufacturer recently acquired Brocade’s converged adapter business as part of a broad ...
Intel invests in Chinese tech firms as part of cloud + Big Data push
Intel is kicking off the Year of the Horse with a series of strategic investments in Chinese tech firms that are helping to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing and analytics among local companies, which are coming under increased pressure to differentiate as the number of consumers and mobile devices continue to grow at breakneck ...
Enterprise cloud spending to triple by 2017 : New markets emerge for software, analytics
Cloud spending continues to accelerate as large organizations move beyond test and development in pursuit of business agility and cost savings, a recent report by IHS Technology has reaffirmed. The research firm predicts that the market for “online storage, computing, analytics and provisioning services” will be worth $174.2 billion by the end of the year, ...
HP bolsters Gen8 line to address rise of data-driven workloads
Hewlett-Packard is looking to make it easier for customers to tame the rapid growth in unstructured information with a new heavy-duty ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) server built to power databases and complex analytical workloads. Unveiled this morning, the DL580 is based on Intel’s high-end Ivy Bridge-EX architecture, which supports up to 15 cores and 30 ...
The role of the cloud : Realizing the vision for self-serve analytics | #BigDataSV
Over the past three years, Big Data has evolved from hype to reality in the enterprise, presenting a new paradigm for decision-making with the potential to drive competitive advantage as well as operational efficiencies. Alteryx COO George Mathew believes that the next phase of the analytics journey is putting the power in the hands of ...
Confirmed: Fusion-io founders back with a vengeance : bag total of $63M for stealth startup
Fusion-io co-founders David Flynn and Rick White have not been idle since their controversial departure from the storage drive maker last May. Four months after handing over the reins to new CEO Shane Robison, the executives secured $50 million for their next venture, an emerging provider of software-defined storage (SDS) solutions called Primary Data. Now ...
HP top brass, former CEO slapped with investor lawsuit
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman painted an optimistic outlook at her company’s Discover customer event last year, dedicating the largest portion of her keynote address to new market opportunities. The former eBay chief discussed cloud computing, Big Data and even upcoming technologies such as 3D printing, and detailed how HP is trying to stay ahead of ...
Alcatel-Lucent unveils cloud-based UC service + updates enterprise suite
Struggling telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent is following in the footsteps of rival Cisco and turning to the cloud for business growth. The company last week augmented its unified communications (UC) portfolio with a hosted solution geared towards helping small and medium-sized businesses reduce IT maintenance costs. The new OpenTouch Office Cloud platform is described as ...
Infochimps packages solutions + CSC services into integrated cloud analytics stack
Infochimps, the data-marketplace-turned-cloud-analytics startup that was picked up by IT consulting giant CSC last year, has repackaged its portfolio into an integrated suite featuring professional services from its parent company. Announced at last week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara, the offering is based on an unspecified “open source-based Big Data Platform” – presumably Ironfan, ...
Guavus optimizes operations analytics platform for virtualized environments
Guavus, a venture-backed infrastructure analytics firm led by former NetApp product head Manish Goel, has reworked the Guavus Reflex Platform, its flagship solution, to run in virtualized carrier networks. The milestone update comes as the rapid growth in connected device drives telcos—along with cloud providers and large enterprises—to migrate from legacy systems to more scalable ...