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DataStax Snags Former Fusion-io CFO
Apache Cassandra distributor DataStax announced today that it has appointed Dennis Wolf as chief financial officer. The Silicon Valley veteran joins the company from flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io, which posted a first-quarter loss of $27.9 million, or 28 cents a share on Wednesday. Wolf brings more than 30 years of experience to the company. ...
NetApp Making More Friends to Extend Channel Reach
Storage vendor NetApp is expanding in all directions with an aggressive partnering strategy that earned it two new alliances and a major channel victory in the past week alone. The most notable of these is the partnership with Verizon to make Data ONTAP available for the carrier’s cloud users. Data ONTAP is a storage operating ...
Hadoop Ready for Primetime? 4 Things Hortonworks Needs to Succeed
With this week’s release of HDP 2.0, Hortonworks is marrying Big Data and business analytics to make Hadoop more viable for the traditional enterprise. The latest version of the startup’s flagship distribution utilizes the YARN resource manager to let users store all of their data in one place for more convenient access and analysis. Hortonworks ...
Apple Taking a Page Out of Google’s Book to Grow in the Enterprise
Tim Cook’s Apple is playing it safe with an iterative approach to innovation, focusing on evolution as opposed to revolution. The company stuck to its guns yet again this year with a Retina-equipped follow-up to the iPad mini and a new variation of its full-sized tablet that boasts an array of significant improvements. More than ...
A Win for Predictive Analytics : Infer Doubles Customer Bookings Since April
Delivering on its April promise to investors, predictive analytics startup Infer revealed this week that it has doubled its customer bookings since exiting stealth mode. As a result, the company is now processing 200 percent more predictions for customers than six months ago. Established in 2010 by data scientist Vik Singh and former Googlers Yang ...
For Domino’s Pizza, Splunk is the Secret Sauce to Efficiency
Domino’s Pizza, the second largest pizza chain in the United States, is using Splunk to gain operational visibility across 10,300 stores in over 70 international markets. The company detailed its case study in a release that crossed the wire on Tuesday. The takeout giant’s Splunk journey is a familiar one. Its IT organization originally deployed the ...
SAS, Teradata Team on HDP to Deliver Integrated Analytics
In a move to help organizations consolidate their Big Data environments, analytics giant SAS and partner Teradata have updated their joint offering to support Hortonworks’ fast-growing Hadoop distribution. Dubbed Analytics Advantage Program with Hadoop, the platform marries Teradata’s SAS appliance and Unified Data Architecture, or UDA, with the latest release of the Hortonworks Data Distribution. ...
The iPad Air Journey: Rumors, the Big Debut, and Competition
It’s been an interesting few weeks in the tablet arena, with the blogosphere noticeably more abuzz in the month leading up to the debut of the Retina-equipped iPad. It all started with a little spark: a hastily recorded video claiming to match up the iPad 4 against Apple’s fifth generation tablet. Uploaded by Chinese parts ...
HP Autonomy Expands Analytics Lineup with Qfiniti 10
The contact center, the evolutionary successor of the traditional call center, plays a much bigger role in shaping customer experiences now that mobile has expanded beyond voice and messaging to video and social media. On Monday, HP Autonomy unveiled a new version of its Qfiniti analytics solution to help organizations tap this increasingly valuable source ...
Today’s BI is BS : Platfora Revamps Self-Serve Analytics
Big Data has emerged as a source of competitive advantage in the enterprise, but many organizations are still struggling to harness the power of analytics due to the complexity and overhead associated with transforming statistics into actionable business insights. And fast-growing startup called Platfora is working to tear down these barriers with a Hadoop-based BI ...