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Taking place this week in San Francisco, ServiceNow Knowledge14 has attracted 6,000 attendees, a 50 percent increase from last year’s event that puts the conference on a fast trajectory towards the big leagues of vendor shows. The tremendous traction around the summit …
Aerospike Spike CEO talks innovation in the database | #tbt #theCUBE
Brian Bulkowski, the founding CEO of database startup Aerospike, stopped by theCUBE to discuss the state of this market with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon principal analyst Dave Vellante. Bulkowski’s company pegs itself as a vendor of real-time NoSQL technology for large …
With Inktank buy, Red Hat expands software-defined vision across entire open storage spectrum
Red Hat has just made public that it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Inktank, a venture-backed startup launched in 2012 by the developers behind the Ceph software-defined storage component of OpenStack to commercialize the project. The transaction is expected to …
ServiceNow extends ecosystem + vertical focus with online community exchange
Historically, IT organizations had no choice but to use hard-coded process flows and spreadsheets for service relationship management. That not only necessitated significant time investments in manual data entry but also made it considerably more difficult to administer large-scale environments where information …
Meet Factual, the self-fashioned force multiplier for Big Data | #CubeConversations
Context, not individual data points, will enable the next wave of enterprise applications, the only question is who will get there first. Leading the race for holistic analytics in the social sphere is the Los Angeles-based Factual, a low-profile startup with a …
Oracle continues hardware drive, even as rivals move up the stack
Even as cloud computing and the commoditization of the data center shift IT spending from physical infrastructure to software, Oracle is continuing to swim against the current with a level of confidence not shared by its traditional rivals, most of whom have …
Red Hat infrastructure head: Applications to transcend physical deployment models | #RHSummit
Hybrid computing is a natural evolution of IT service delivery that extends far beyond the current discussion around data centers and cloud services, according to Red Hat senior vice president of infrastructure Tim Yeaton, transcending the underlying physical deployment models without regard …
What to watch at IBM Impact 2014: From SoftLayer app store to open-source hardware | #IBMimpact
The public cloud theme has predictably carried over from IBM’s February Pulse conference to its executive-oriented Impact summit in Las Vegas this week, where of many of the products that debuted three months ago are making an appearance once again in the …
SoftWatch analytics tool tracks Office usage, reduces licensing costs
License optimization startup SoftWatch promises to help CIOs address Microsoft Office usage inefficiency as their companies contemplate transitioning from on-premise applications to cloud services. Tel Aviv-based SoftWatch today announced its new namesake online analytics tool that the company says helps CIOs identify savings …
How Fusion-io’s latest flash interface changes the game for web-scale applications | #CubeConversations
Unable to keep pace with Moore’s law, traditional disk storage has become the weak link in corporate IT environments, with the ever-widening I/O gap between processors and mechanical drivers (and historically just as significantly, the absence of a genuinely viable alternative) leaving …