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The analytics movement has come far along its growth path since Colin Mahony, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica business, opened the company’s first annual conference on the database 12 months ago. Information gained in importance among decision-makers, new technology milestones have …
U.S. Transportation Dept. jumps into the federal CDO craze
The public sector is taking the driver’s seat in embracing the emerging role of the chief data officer. The latest major federal institution to jump on the bandwagon is the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), which has appointed veteran technology leader Dan …
Embracing OpenStack, VMware gives “integrated stack” a whole new meaning at VMworld 2014
After months of speculation topped with a string of earlier-than-expected product announcements in the week leading up to the conference, VMworld 2014 is finally here, and it’s living up the hype. VMworld Inc. kicked off the first day of its buzzed-about customer …
HP retools its storage stack for the software-defined data center
Following in the footsteps of rivals EMC Corp. and IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. is working to adapt its storage stack for the increasingly heterogeneous and centralized nature of IT infrastructure. The hardware giant took another step forward today with a fresh batch of …
Practitioners, not vendors, drive value from analytics | #HPBigData2014
The true value of data analytics is not measured by the market caps of the top vendors or average industry revenue growth, but by what users can accomplish leveraging the technology, the possibilities for which extend far beyond merely boosting the bottom …
VMware signals big expansion plans in runup to VMworld
VMworld doesn’t start until today, but the floodgates are already wide open. VMware Inc. set the tone for its much-anticipated event after leaking a series of major updates that would normally have been reserved for the keynote address days ahead of the …
Millions of patients’ data hacked in “first confirmed” Heartbleed heist
Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc. has become the latest U.S. institution to come forward about falling victim to Chinese hackers after admitting in an SEC filing last week that personally identifiable information about millions of patients was stolen over the course of …
VMware revamps its public cloud with a new name, cleaner partner program
As its annual customer conference opens in San Francisco this week, VMware Inc. is providing a taste of things to come with the release of two significant cosmetic updates for its public cloud that send a message of seriousness to the ecosystem …
Software is eating data science | #HPBigData2014
Automation is sending the data scientist the same way as the switchboard operator, according to Brian Weiss, the man who Hewlett-Packard Co. appointed to help along the transition. As the head of subject matter experts for the company’s Autonomy business, he is …
Toppling the operational obstacles behind McGladrey’s Backup-as-a-Service | #CubeConversations
Keeping an entire enterprise’s worth of information protected is no simple task, let alone if that company happens to employ a geographically distributed organizational structure and competes in an industry where the storage and management of data is heavily regulated. That’s the …