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Big Data apps + cloud steal the spotlight : Strata day 2 | #BigDataSV
The O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara is abuzz with the promise of making analytics power more accessible than ever before through new applications of Big Data. Tresata, the brainchild of former Bank of America data science chief and theCUBE regular Abhishek Mehta, is leading the way with a new software solution that runs on ...
Brocade reiterates support for Gen 6 FC + adds flash qualification program
Storage switch and router maker Brocade has started developing SAN solutions based on the sixth-generation Fibre Channel (FC) standard, which was officially announced on Tuesday by the FICA industry association. Fully backward compatible with the previous two releases, the specification doubles the throughput of Gen 5 FC to 32Gbps and can be configured to provide ...
Couchbase updates NoSQL database with new enterprise features | #BigDataSV
Couchbase, the startup behind the open source database of the same name, released a new version of its commercial offering that better addresses the availability requirements of mission-critical workloads. The announcement comes less than six months after the company raised $25 million in Series D funding from Adams Street Partners and existing investors to drive ...
Strata Conference day 1 : Making the database more accessible to users | #BigDataSV
The Strata Conference is now in full swing with a flurry of announcements from the biggest names in analytics. A major theme of this year’s event is making insights more consumable for business users, a challenge that Paxata is addressing with patent-pending technology for transforming raw data into information that can be used by front-end ...
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 ...