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QLogic jumps on hyperscale bandwagon with FC adapter for OCP servers
Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2011 with the goal of establishing a set of industry standards for hyperscale computing, a new operating paradigm that does away with proprietary solutions in favor of open source software and off-the-shelf data center equipment. Touted as cost-effective and elastic, the architecture proved highly successful in enabling ...
Microsoft aligns with Facebook to open source hyperscale
At re:Invent last year, Amazon VP James Hamilton gave attendees a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the AWS juggernaut, revealing how his firm leverages hyperspecialized components to achieve operational efficiencies at unprecedented scale. But other than that, the IaaS giant has remained tight lipped about its cloud, not disclosing revenues let alone providing ...
Altiscale debuts industry’s first true Hadoop Cloud
Another day, another startup tackling the challenges of Big Data. Altiscale, the brainchild of former Yahoo chief architect and CTO Raymie Stata, today announced the general availability of Altiscale Data Cloud, its new Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform. With only $12 million in Series A funding, Altiscale can’t hope to match the scale or affordability of Amazon ...
EnterpriseDB expands cloud-based Postgres Plus database on AWS
Since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, developers have been moving away from MySQL to community-developed alternatives such as MariaDB and even PostgresSQL, the long-time underdog of the database world. EnterpriseDB founder and CEO Ed Boyajian is an open source veteran; he believes PostgresSQL has finally crossed the chasm to the enterprise mainstream. And Sean Doherty, ...
Elasticsearch’s new Marvel tool adds monitoring to real-time analytics
Elasticsearch, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the open-source Big Data query engine of the same name, today announced the general availability of Marvel, its first commercial product. Marvel is a monitoring solution that pulls in and visualizes real-time activity data exposed through a project’s APIs to provide users with a better view of their deployments. “Our mission has ...
ManageEngine rolls out sweeping upgrades across monitoring portfolio
Data center monitoring provider ManageEngine, a division of IT management powerhouse Zoho Corp, unveiled a set of major updates to its core products at this week’s Cisco Live conference in Milan. The portfolio revamp expands support for the networking stalwart’s products and attempts to address the rise of mobility in the enterprise. The latest version ...
Teradata launches end-to-end Big Data solution for SAP shops
Data warehousing giant Teradata is hoping to carve out a bigger slice of the quarter-million-strong SAP customer base with a new bundle of products and services designed to help companies collapse their legacy information silos while sustaining existing IT investments. The offering, branded as Teradata Analytics for SAP, consists of nearly two dozen modules split ...
Qualcomm takes Palm patents off HP’s hands
Last week Hewlett-Packard unloaded 1,400 patents on Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of mobile chips, as part of CEO Meg Whitman’s ongoing effort to dump low value-assets and refocus on high-growth areas such as converged infrastructure, cloud services and Big Data. The initiative is coming along nicely, HP Vertica’s Chris Selland informed us in an exclusive ...
VTUG president discusses virtualization and SDN | #VTUG
When Chris Harney launched the Virtual Technology Users Group (VTUG) nearly a decade ago, VMware had a monopoly on virtualizing x86 servers. But as the market grew and evolved, competitors such as Microsoft started gaining ground, and the agenda eventually had to be adapted for the rise of multi-hypervisor environments. Harney appeared on theCUBE for ...
TheCUBE heads to Silicon Valley for the real scoop on Big Data |#BigDataSV
In the follow-up to SiliconANGLE’s hugely successful Big Data NYC 2013 meetup, theCUBE will arrive in Santa Clara next month for three days of exclusive commentary and analysis from the thought leaders on the front lines of analytics. Keep an eye out for the hashtag #BigDataSV as the event gets closer. Big Data Silicon Valley ...