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The security industry is increasingly embracing Hadoop as the standard for large-scale analytics. Sqrrl, Inc. is now offering to help customers make more of the batch processing platform – and their machine-generated logs – through newly expanded integration with Splunk, Inc.’s Hunk …
Western Digital claims breakthrough in flash storage performance
Move over, NAND; there’s a new flash architecture in town. HGST Inc., the enterprise storage supplier that merged into hard drive kingpin Western Digital Corp. two years ago, has unveiled a proof-of-concept that it claims surpasses the current gold standard for solid-state …
What you missed in Cloud: piecemealing the hybrid computing revolution
The hybrid cloud offers tremendous opportunities for driving operational efficiencies in the enterprise, but poses an equally great set of challenges that the vendor community has yet to address in its entirety. Fast progress is being made on changing that, however. The …
IBM and Oracle tackle organizational complexity with acquisitions
The spread of mobile devices and cloud services has made workers more productive, but also introduced new issues of accountability and control. IBM and Oracle Corp. both moved to address these complexities this week through acquisitions. IBM’s acquisition of Italian startup CrossIdeas s.r.l. gives …
The flip side of the CDO story | #MITIQ
As as is happening with other regulated industries, the financial services sector is seeing a sharp increase in the number of chief data officers at the top of the business, but some companies are still going against the flow – and succeeding. …
What you missed in Big Data: orchestration and security
Seven years after its creation at Yahoo, Hadoop has proven itself amongst the most efficient solutions for storing vast amounts of unstructured information on the market, now finding its way into enterprise products. Hortonworks Inc., a distributor of the open-source data crunching …
The ‘father of data warehousing’ moves on to bigger things | #MITCDOIQ
The “father of the data warehouse” hasn’t talked data warehousing in a decade. Instead, Bill Inmon is tackling the thorny problem of making the 80 percent of corporate data that’s in unstructured form easily available for analysis. Inmon, who is credited with writing …
Report: SDN landscape divided among fast-moving majority and cautious pragmatics
The ability to provision network resources at the push of a bottom and upgrade the underlying infrastructure without worrying about compatibility issues may seem like a distant dream for practitioners today, but a new report suggests that programmable transport capacity is on …
Where the chief privacy officer fits into the CDO revolution | #MITIQ
The growing importance of information in decision-making is pushing priorities such as accuracy and compliance higher up the corporate agenda, to the point that a growing number of organizations are now are appointing dedicated leaders charged with shouldering those new responsibilities. And …
On backdrop of net neutrality debate, Netflix taps AT&T for faster streaming
Netflix Inc. had entered a peering agreement in AT&T Corp. in May under which video will be streamed directly to the latter’s network instead of going through a backbone provider, according to a new report that has been confirmed by both companies. …