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Amazon, competition double down on Devs @ re:Invent 2013
Earlier this week, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal threw down the gauntlet to Amazon with a new cloud development platform that includes a set of integrated tools for analyzing Big Data. Now, the infrastructure-as-a-service behemoth is firing back. Amazon today announced two new AWS services at its re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, including WorkPlaces, ...
Eyeing SMB market, HP packages VSA into Gen8 servers
Hewlett Packard is bringing the software-defined data center into reach for small and medium-size businesses with a complimentary edition of its HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) software. A limited license of VSA is now available for no charge upon every purchase of least two “eligible” ProLiant Gen8 servers. HP didn’t specify which machines you ...
Looking back at #ooc13: In-memory processing + flash as a means to reduce costs
At Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison declared war on SAP HANA with the new In-Memory Option for his company’s flagship database software. The feature delivers “ungodly” performance with up to 100 times faster queries, but in true Oracle spirit, the extra horsepower comes with a price tag to match. The ...
Causation vs. Correlation in BI : Nate Silver + others chime in
In traditional decision making, the metrics that impact the bottom line will almost always take precedence over the underlying drivers of change. The reasons behind a purchase decision fade into insignificance when you can deduce what a customer will buy next by other means – at least, that’s the theory. With the emergence of Big ...
Box CIO on the intricacies of the job | #BigDataNYC
When Ben Haines joined Box as CIO six months ago, the former Pabst Brewing Co. executive wasted no time in getting up to speed with the intricacies of managing IT for a cloud service provider. A veteran of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) space, Haines started his first job in the tech industry with a ...
Attunity upgrades AWS replication service at AWS re:Invent 2013
Attunity announced on Tuesday that it has enhanced its CloudBeam file replication and transfer service to better accommodate Big Data workloads of varying sizes. The update introduces “quality of service” tiers that enable customers to optimize their cloud uplinks for cost and performance, with throughput speeds ranging from 200Mbps all the way up to 1Gbps. ...
Pivotal unleashes Cloud-based Big Data platform
Pivotal, the buzzed-about Big Data venture that was spun out of EMC and VMware earlier this year, is attempting to marry the power of Hadoop with the elasticity of the open cloud. The company’s newly unveiled Pivotal One platform is the culmination of $105 million in funding, months of work by hundreds of engineers and ...
NetApp sues rival over employee poaching
NetApp has filed suit against Nimble Storage, one of its fastest growing rivals, for allegedly engaging in anticompetitive behavior and colluding with three ex-employees to steal trade secrets. The vendor claims that the hybrid array startup lured former staffers to “join the company and to take NetApp confidential information with them.” It accuses Michael Reynolds, ...
QLogic gains in Fibre Channel market with Gen 5 adapters
Network equipment supplier QLogic is aiming for a comeback with its 16Gb FC “Gen 5” adapters, the first product family to support simultaneous multi-protocol traffic in Xeon E5-2600/1600 v2 environments. Citing independent research, the company reported on Monday that its share of the Fibre Channel market increased by 12 percent in the third quarter for ...
WANdisco top brass on Big Data disruption | #BigDataNYC
It’s easy to dismiss a disruptive trend as a bubble waiting to burst, yet the reverse holds true for Big Data, according to WANdisco CEO David Richards. The executive stopped by theCUBE with Jagane Sundar, the co-founder and CTO of the company, to detail how analytics are shaking up traditional technology and business perspectives. Richards ...