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ServiceNow gets Technopedia VendorData catalog courtesy of BDNA
The bigger the company, the more difficult it is to manage vendor relationships. A sizable percentage of organizations have dedicated teams for negotiating contracts and reducing the added risk of working with multiple technology suppliers. However, the rapid adoption of cloud services is quickly overwhelming traditional procurement structures. Today, BDNA and enterprise IT automation giant ...
Fusion-io introduces virtual desktop acceleration software for VMware shops
Desktop virtualization is one of the top use cases for flash, in particular, hybrid arrays that combine disk with solid-state memory to achieve a balance of performance, capacity, and cost. Fusion-io has emerged as a leader in this space with ioControl, which was found to outperform rivaling solutions by up to seven times in a ...
DDN records massive growth in FY 2013
DataDirect Networks, the world’s largest privately held storage company, is riding the information explosion with high-performance arrays for large-scale IT environments, ever popular among enterprises. The vendor revealed today that it has added 122 new customers over the last 12 months for a total of more than 1,100, about 600 of which are in the ...
Broadcom makes 4G LTE more accessible to consumers with low-end smartphone chip
Increasing consumer spending in emerging markets is creating new growth opportunities for mobile phone manufacturers, offering escape from the cutthroat competition in North America and Europe. Major vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are spearheading the charge into this rapidly expanding segment, and their component suppliers are following suit. On Monday, semiconductor giant Broadcom pulled the curtains ...
Rackspace insiders on the hyperscale supply chain | #OCPSummit
Hyperscale is fundamentally changing the way infrastructure is deployed and managed, but while the technology itself has the industry abuzz, very little attention is being given to how this new paradigm affects day-to-day business activity. Wesley Jess and Aaron Sullivan of Rackspace dropped by theCUBE at the recently concluded Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit to ...
Fusion-io moves up the storage food chain with new flash arrays
Fusion-io, a leading maker of PCIe flash cards for servers, is looking to make a name for itself in the broader storage market with two new systems that utilize speedy ioMemory solid-state drives to provide high-performance and scalability for enterprise workloads. The first addition to the company’s product line-up is the ION Accelerator, an all-flash ...
LSI systems architect discusses hyperscale and the secret sauce behind Amazon’s cloud dominance | #OCPSummit
Robert Ober, a systems and processor architect for semiconductor maker LSI, hopped into theCUBE during the recently concluded Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit to share his insider’s perspective on open-source hardware with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Ober starts off the interview with a brief rundown of LSI’s two newly announced contributions to the ...
SAP overhauls cloud-based training hub
SAP is taking a page from Cloudera’s book, doubling down on education as part of a push to regain solid footing in the modern enterprise, where an increasing emphasis on productivity growth is driving a transition from traditional on-premise software to cloud services. The German business intelligence giant last week updated its online training center in ...
What you missed in Big Data : New solutions shift analytics landscape
It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications. Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution ...
Industry leaders on OpenStack innovation : Future of the enterprise cloud | #OEForum
Last month’s OpenStack Enterprise Forum featured a packed agenda studded with presentations and commentary by some of the most influential thought leaders in the industry. However, there was one discussion in particular that stood out among the many highlights of the event: a panel entitled Driving OpenStack Adoption with Nebula head Chris Kemp, HP cloud ...