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CSC CTO Talks Oracle | #oow13
Dan Hushon, the chief technology officer of services giant CSC, shared his insider’s perspective on the Oracle ecosystem and the changing IT landscape in a recent interview on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. Hushon believes that the database giant is well positioned to take advantage of Java’s popularity and the accelerating adoption of Big Data in the enterprise. ...
Syncsort Picks Up UK Startup to Unlock Information Silos
Three weeks after partnering with Tableau to unlock isolated Big Data silos, Syncsort has acquired Circle Computer Group to simplify analytics for mainframe users. The London-based startup is best known for DL/2, an application migration tool that can move IBM IMS and VSAM workloads to the more modern DB2 database software and z/OS without requiring ...
SAP’s Kevin Chew Talks In-Memory Analytics and Business Value at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 | #oow13
During his stint as a Venture Investor at EMC, Kevin Chew tracked cloud computing and Big Data as they began to take root in Silicon Valley. Now the group vice president of Managed Cloud as a Service and Technology Alliances for SAP, Chew is responsible for helping customers and partners leverage these technologies to boost ...
VCE’s Jay Cuthrell on Oracle, Vblock + Everything In Between | #oow13
Jay Cuthrell of the VCE Office of the CTO dropped by theCUBE at the recently concluded Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference to share his take on databases, DBAs and the developer-driven data center. Cuthrell begins the interview by highlighting that Oracle is a “workload of interest” for VCE, which made it a priority to help customers ...
Internet of Things Review: From Routers to eReaders
As the largest enterprise networking vendor, Cisco is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the explosive growth of the Internet of Things. The company is pursuing this market with a software-defined data center router that can stream the entire Netflix library in less than one second. Cisco’s newly unveiled Network Convergence System, or NCS, virtualizes optical ...
IBM Scores Major Customer Win as It Doubles Down on the Midmarket
From improving patient care at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to helping physicians make more informed treatment decisions based on historical data, IBM’s Watson has proven to be a boon for the healthcare industry. Albeit not nearly as well known beyond the traditional enterprise, the company’s SAN Volume Controller is also making a difference for ...
Oracle OpenWorld Recap: In-Memory Processing On Everyones’ Minds | #oow13
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison kicked off his company’s annual OpenWorld conference with an unusually compelling keynote speech about In-Memory Option, a new feature of Database 12c that aims to deliver “ungodly” performance at the flip of a switch. The CEO claimed that the function makes queries up to 100 times faster while providing doubled ...
Weekly Big Data Review: From Semi-Structured Data to Ultra-Fast Queries
Big Data vendors are not letting anything get in the way of their revolution. Companies like MemSQL are tearing down legacy barriers in a collective effort to move analytics into the enterprise mainstream. The database startup recently updated its in-memory NewSQL platform to support JSON, a popular syntax for analyzing semi-structured data. As the first ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Nirvanix Goes Under as Competition Intensifies
It’s been an interesting week in the cloud arena. Nirvanix, a high-profile enterprise cloud storage startup, abruptly informed partners that they have until October 15 to move customer data off its systems. Nirvanix didn’t provide any official explanation, but it’s plain to see that the company has fallen victim to the highly competitive cloud computing ...
MapR Expands Global Footprint with New Japan Office
Continuing on a rapid growth path, MapR announced this morning that it has extended its global footprint to Japan with a new office in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company also entered agreements with system integrators NS Solutions and Nautilus Technologies to resell its Hadoop distributions in the region. “MapR is pleased to work with NS Solutions ...