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Judging by its fourth quarter and full year earnings results, SAP’s plans to substitute revenue from clunky enterprise software with data-driven applications and cloud services are coming along nicely. HANA remained the German business intelligence giant’s fastest growing product despite being hit …
BlackBerry CEO brings in yet another former colleague to replicate Sybase turnaround
BlackBerry chief executive John Chen, credited with saving Sybase from its death spiral, is putting his old team back together in a bid to beat the odds once again and restore the struggling phone maker to its former glory. The leadership reshuffle …
Wikibon defines Server SAN: the intersection of hyperscale, convergence and flash
The issues that are being tackled by web-scale giants today provide a glimpse of the challenges in tomorrow’s enterprise data center. In particular, the need to manage large volumes of information with minimum delay is driving the emergence of Server SAN , …
Cloudera: Impala is faster than Hive, and here are the numbers to prove it
Cloudera is on a journey to make Hadoop enterprise-ready, and central to that mission is the integration of enterprise capabilities into the Big Data stack. That includes high-availability, recoverability and business intelligent features like structured query, a gap that the company is …
IBM puts aside $1B for new dedicated Watson business
IBM is bolstering its commitment to bringing cognitive computing into the enterprise mainstream with a new business unit that will focus exclusively on commercializing Watson, the company announced at a recent New York event. The move, which follows a similar decision by …
Shrinking infrastructure : Protect data across hacker borders | #MITECIR
Al Berkley, the chairman of Princeton Capital Management, dropped by theCUBE at last week’s MIT ECIR Workshop to discuss the changing dynamics of cybersecurity and policymaking with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and guest host Charles Sennott. Berkley serves on the board of Business …
EMC’s Mat Allen on cyberthreats and the security leadership gap | #MITECIR
Data security has become a top priority for all sectors, but the majority of decision makers have not yet adjusted to this new reality, according to EMC security practice lead Mat Allen. He appeared on theCUBE at the recently concluded MIT ECIR …
Uncertain road ahead for Internet governance | #MITECIR
In the interconnected era, policy makers can’t afford to lag behind technological change. Cyber security has become a national security issue, and now governance – or lack thereof – is emerging as a challenge to sustaining the growth and innovation spurred by …
EMC veteran David Goulden lands CEO role
David Goulden, who was widely considered a top candidate to succeed EMC boss Joe Tucci before he pushed back his retirement to 2015, has finally been named CEO of the storage giant’s core information infrastructure. He previously served as the company’s president …
Verizon and Oracle team up for software-as-a-service
It’s not easy being an underdog in the cloud business. Verizon is years behind the competition with its enterprise IaaS offering, while Oracle’s plan to refocus from legacy maintenance contracts to cloud services has barely even begun to materialize. Recognizing that they’re …