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Following in NetApp’s Footsteps, Dell Expands Oracle Support
Dell is strengthening its foothold in the Oracle ecosystem with new solutions and services for relational database users. Most notable among the vendor’s latest offerings are the updated versions of Toad and SharePlex. Toad, a widely-used database development and administration platform, now features multi-tenancy, diagnostic messaging and improved provisioning capabilities, as well as a reworked ...
Hortonworks and WANdisco Expand Partnership with Non-Stop Hadoop Integration
Hortonworks and active-active replication provider WANdisco announced today that they have expanded their partnership in an effort to establish Hadoop as a viable data platform for the enterprise. Under the agreement, Hortonworks will update its open source Hadoop distribution to support WANdisco’s Non-Stop technology, a network solution that eliminates the single point of failure in ...
Study: Virtualization and Data Recovery Don’t Always Mix
Forty percent of companies that store information in a virtualized environment have suffered data loss in the last 12 months, a new study published by Kroll Ontrack concludes. The data protection specialist surveyed more than 700 enterprises to determine whether virtualization is as reliable as VMware would have you believe. Kroll found that 84 percent ...
MapR Supercharges HBase with M7 Update
Simplifying queries is a top priority for Hadoop vendors, and MapR is no exception. The company is leading the charge with its M7 distribution, which wraps a distributed file system around HBase, an open source NoSQL database that runs atop the HDFS storage layer, to make it easier for users to consume information. MapR announced ...
Huddle Hot on the Heels of Microsoft SharePoint with Content Connector
Huddle is going after SharePoint with a new connector that lets organizations move content to the cloud without bringing in outside talent to handle the migration. The London-based collaboration provider says that unlike Microsoft’s platform, its service empowers workers to share and access documents “when on the move with their enterprise ecosystem of customers, partners ...
Cisco Unveils Software-Defined Router for the Internet of Things
While not as grandiose as IBM’s one billion dollar investment in making its Power servers more viable for cloud computing and analytics, Cisco’s $250 million push to develop a router for the Internet of Things just as ambitious – and it has already borne fruit. The vendor’s newly unveiled Network Convergence System aims to address ...
ManageEngine Touts IT Visibility at Oracle OpenWorld | #oow13
ManageEngine is on a quest to make Oracle environments more transparent and easier to maintain. The Pleasanton, California-based provider of IT management solutions set up shop at this week’s OpenWorld conference 2013 to showcase new software that lets DBAs keep track of their Oracle deployments from a single pane of glass. The latest version of ...
Red Hat Eyeing ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’ with New JBoss PaaS Lineup
Red Hat is moving beyond the realm of containerized PaaS with new OpenShift services for plugging cloud-based applications into back-office systems. Based on the company’s JBoss application server, the upcoming “xPaaS” solutions aim to make it easier for OpenShift users to integrate cloud apps into their IT environments. Red Hat’s xPaas lineup includes a business ...
Analytics Startup C9 Refreshes Portfolio After $12M Funding Round
Revenue analytics specialist C9 has raised $12 million in Series D funding from Mayfield Fund, InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures to accelerate the development of its software and fuel sales and marketing efforts. The round brings the six-year-old startup’s total funding to $40 million. The San Mateo, California-based C9 offers a cloud-based Big Data platform ...
QLogic Shows Off Adapters at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 | #oow13
Despite losing Google to MariaDB, Oracle still maintains a firm grip on the database market. The company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco attracted tens of thousands of customers and hundreds of partners, including Fibre Channel vendor QLogic. The networking equipment supplier is attending the event to showcase FabricCache, a line of adapters that leverage its ...