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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 ...
Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop distros, cloud analytics and everything in between
This week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference saw the usual slew of Big Data announcements from around the industry, but a handful of vendors managed to stand out from the crowd despite the overwhelming buzz. The first is Hadoop distributor MapR, which unleashed a string of new and updated products on day 1 of the Santa Clara ...
CloudPassage nets $25.5 million to meet demand for software-defined security
Security automation specialist CloudPassage announced on Thursday that it has raised $25.5 million in a third round of funding led by existing backer Shasta Ventures, an early-stage VC notable for its investments in a number hugely successful tech firms including Mint and the recently acquired Nest. New investors Meritech Capital Partners and Seagate chief exec ...
Hewlett-Packard goes after BYOD with yet another corporate app store
Thursday morning, Hewlett-Packard unveiled an enterprise app store designed to give today’s increasingly mobile workforce unhindered access to company data across multiple devices while enabling CIOs to minimize the additional risk exposure. The solution supports both Android and iOS through native clients and includes a web interface for traditional desktops. HP Access Catalog is built ...
Google challenges Amazon RDS with Cloud SQL
More than four years after the launch of Amazon RDS, Google can now boast of having a database-as-a-service solution of its own. Released into general availability on Tuesday after an extensive test period, Cloud SQL provides a much-needed relational backbone for applications running on App Engine and GCE. The service supports databases up to 500 ...
VMware streamlines partner program to drive growth
Attendees at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2014 in San Francisco were greeted with a number of welcome updates, including a major channel refresh meant to make things a little simpler for software vendors, service providers and distributors selling virtualization software. “The enhancements we are making to our award-winning partner program are designed to ...
MapR laps ahead of rivals with SQL query + YARN backward compatibility and more
MapR has established itself as a frontrunner in the race to deliver the first truly enterprise-ready Big Data platform by diverging from the traditional open source approach to Hadoop, earning the scorn of rivals and others in the community. But by adding value-added features not supported directly in the batch processing platform, the firm has ...