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Weekly Big Data Review: Google Dumps Oracle, Cookies
In the latest blow to Oracle’s market dominance, Google has made the decision to migrate its database environment from MySQL to MariaDB, a community-developed fork that was created in response to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer with the search giant, broke the news at the Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) conference ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Services and Partnerships
Cloud providers are forging unusual alliances to stay ahead of the curve. Raising eyebrows, CRM giant Salesforce and HR management specialist Workday recently joined forces to “standardize” each other’s cloud services. Under the agreement, Salesforce’s sales and marketing solutions will be integrated with HCM, financial and data analytics applications from Workday. The latter will also ...
RightScale Extends Cloud Management Platform with SDN Capabilities
Management complexity is a major pain point for enterprises that want a choice between different cloud providers. Luckily, a company called RightScale offers to simplify multi-service environments with a common interface for provisioning resources across public clouds. Recognizing the value in software-defined networking, RightScale announced this week that it has rounded out its offering with ...
Pure Storage and Delphix Prove (Once Again) that Flash is More Effective than Disk
All-flash array vendor Pure Storage has teamed up with database virtualization firm Delphix to demonstrate that flash is not only faster than disk, but also more cost-efficient across the board. To prove their point, the pair deployed 26 virtual databases, each one terabyte in size, on a Pure Storage FlashArray. The system served 35,000 transactions ...
AT&T Bolsters Ecosystem for a Slice of the Enterprise Cloud, Mobile Pie
AT&T is making new friends in a bid to strengthen its presence in the rapidly growing enterprise cloud and mobile verticals. The carrier announced this week that it has joined forces with Microsoft to make Windows Azure available for users of its NetBond virtual private network offering. Citing research firm Forrester, AT&T says that the ...
OVA Appoints NetApp to Governing Board
Since its establishment in May 2011, the Open Virtualization Alliance has played a central role in driving KVM adoption among enterprise users. The organization managed to make serious headway on popularizing open source virtualization, growing into a 200-plus member consortium of cloud vendors and service providers in the process. The latest company to join OVA ...
Cisco Architect On the Many Benefits of Tableau | #tcc13
Sudharshan Seerapu, Cisco’s Lead Architect on Tableau and Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, hopped into theCUBE at the recently concluded Tableau Customer Conference to share the power user perspective on data visualization. Seerapu’s Tableau journey began about a year ago, when he started looking for a self-service business intelligence tool that would empower his less tech savvy ...
Tableau CMO Talks Customer-Driven Marketing | #tcc13
Tableau chief marketing officer Elissa Fink believes that effective brand messaging hinges on positive customer experiences. She stopped by theCUBE at last week’s Tableau Customer Conference to discuss how she applies this principle in her work. Fink and her team take most of the credit for organizing the event, which theCUBE co-host Dave Vellante named ...
Red Hat Teams Up with dotCloud to Promote Open Hypervisor Alternative
In the software-defined era, the hardware abstraction layer doesn’t have to be a hypervisor. Sensing the winds of change, Red Hat is putting its weight behind an open-source Linux container engine called Docker. Developed by dotCloud, Docker takes advantage of system-level functions to encapsulate any application and its dependencies as a lightweight container that can ...
Audience Audit’s Susan Baier on Attitudinal Segmentation | #tcc13
Susan Baier is the owner of Audience Audit, a research firm that specializes in attitudinal segmentation. Baier stopped by theCube at the recently concluded Tableau Customer Conference to explain what it is her company does and how Tableau’s software helped her boost the bottom line. Baier is a marketing veteran with over 25 years of ...