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Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop gets smarter and more secure
To move beyond the Big Data hype, business users need a new breed of applications that can not only accommodate information growth, but also separate the signal from the noise to improve decision making. These are the kind of apps Resolution Analytics wants customers to build using the latest release of its enterprise R distribution, ...
Weekly Cloud review: OpenStack, Oracle and Alibaba’s push against AWS
The cloud is expanding in all directions, with end users embracing on-demand software en mass and enterprises increasingly abstracting their traditional IT environments for enhanced provisioning and resource utilization. OpenStack is at the forefront of the latter trend, eliminating proprietary hardware and software requirements to create highly automated pools of compute that can be managed ...
Hardware juggernauts battle over shrinking monitor market
Demand for computer displays has predictably been dragged down further by the slowing PC market, but an encouraging third quarter sales uplift indicates it’s not time to jump ship just yet. The latest market report from IDC reveals that while monitor shipments are down 8.6 percent year-over-year, the number of units sold increased 4.5 percent ...
Alibaba expands overseas as part of Cloud push against AWS
Alibaba Group, China’s top e-commerce firm, is expected to overtake Amazon by 2015 to become the world’s largest online retailer. Unsatisfied, the Hangzhou-based company is now opening a new front against its American rival with an ambitious plan to secure a foothold in the global cloud services market, which Gartner says surpassed $130 billion in ...
Google revamps billing to make the Cloud more transparent
Following the example of Amazon, Google is making it easier for developers to keep tabs on their cloud deployments with a new feature that offers visibility into the resource utilization of applications running on its infrastructure. Currently in preview, Billing Export is pegged as a more convenient alternative to managing costs from the Google Cloud ...
Watch out Accumulo: IBM wins patent for fully homomorphic encryption
Decision makers are breaking down information silos to gain a better view of their companies and customers, but successfully implementing analytics at an organizational level is much easier said than done. In a world of tight budgets, CIOs seeking to tap into data from multiple sources have to meet performance objectives and keep risks in ...
Dell, HP receive top customer satisfaction ratings in the enterprise
While traditional retailers are struggling to match their online rivals in providing positive shopping experiences (a trend that IBM says will be reversed in the next five years,) some big name enterprise vendors are already dominating customer satisfaction rankings. The latest survey from Technology Business Research, a New Hampshire-based market analysis firm, found that Dell ...
Tech giants boost OpenStack ecosystem with new software
OpenStack has come long way since its release in July 2010. Originally developed by Rackspace and NASA, the project is now managed by an industry-backed foundation comprised of representatives from a wide range of companies. Red Hat and IBM, two of the most prominent OpenStack contributors, are pushing to make the platform more attractive for ...
HP Big Data execs go in-depth on analytics | #HPDiscover
HP Autonomy global lead Brian Weiss and Shilpa Lawande, HP Vertica’s vice president of engineering, appeared on theCUBE at Discover 2013 for an in-depth discussion of the technology titan’s Big Data value proposition. Vertica 7, the latest version of the analytic database, launched a few weeks prior to the event’s kick off in Barcelona. Lowndes ...
Oracle goes after Salesforce with $1.5 billion Responsys buy
The long-standing rivarly between Oracle and cloud CRM kingpin Salesforce.com turned up a notch last Friday with the database maker’s acquisition of online marketing specialist Responsys. The deal is valued at $27 per share, a 38 percent premium over the firm’s closing price on Thursday and the equivalent of about $1.5 billion. The San Bruno, ...