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Solid-state memory offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk, but when there are dozens of different vendors all touting the same value proposition, it becomes much more difficult for CIOs to cut through the jargon. It’s even harder for the …
SAP joins software rivals on the open cloud bandwagon
The old guard of the enterprise software industry has been charichastically slow to recognize the potential of OpenStack as a means of countering Amazon’s advance on its home turf, but it eventually adapted, at least to some extent, to the new reality …
Big Switch extends SDN vision to the physical plane
Four years after setting out to change how enterprise networks are operated with an overlay solution designed to provide a centralized management layer atop existing infrastructure, Big Switch Networks is rolling out a new platform aimed at disrupting the entire data transportation …
Yahoo extends mobile footprint to app analytics with Flurry acquisition
With smartphones and tablets now accounting for more than half of the traffic to its services and related advertising revenue up more than 100 percent from last year, it’s only natural for Yahoo Inc. to want a bigger slice of the burgeoning …
In odd coupling, OpenStack purist Mirantis join with Oracle against common enemy Red Hat
Mirantis, Inc. took the mantra “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” to a new extreme last week after announcing a partnership with Oracle Corp. which is traditionally of the most staunchly proprietary software vendors in the industry, to provide support …
VMware offers safe passage from lock-in with low-risk migration path
VMware is making it easier for organizations to migrate to its software with a new initiative that aims to address both the technical and financial barriers to moving off rivaling offerings. Safe Passage, as the program is known, is designed to drive …
BlackBerry CEO recruits another Sybase colleague to drive enterprise growth
If there’s a tech firm that has taken the old saying “change comes from the top” to the heart, it’s BlackBerry. Thankfully for the firm, the call had been heeded by CEO John Chen. Since tapping the software industry veteran last November …
The Nimble angle on the modern enterprise technology landscape | #CubeConversations
The era of big vendors dominating the enterprise market may not be over quite yet, but new players such as Nimble Storage are rapidly improving their ability to compete against incumbents. That accelerating phenomenon and the company in particular have both already …
What you missed in Big Data: bridging the knowledge gap
The rule of thumb in the Hadoop ecosystem is that the newer a technology is, the fewer people possess the necessary skills to exploit it. Apache Spark, an emerging data crunching engine for the batch processing framework described by its backers as …
Cisco and Microsoft link up to push mutual cloud agenda
Another day, another landmark alliance. Except this time, the parties involved are not a pair of up-and-coming startups but Cisco and Microsoft, leaders in their respective markets that, despite their size, have not yet been able to catch up to Amazon in …