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Nutanix Hires Industry Veteran to Head Australian HQ
Converged infrastructure vendor Nutanix announced that it has appointed Wayne Neich to head its Sydney office. As Managing Director of the Australian and New Zealand region, the executive will be responsible for “all aspects” of marketing and customer support. Neich brings more than 25 years of sales and business management experience to Nutanix. He is ...
SAP Broadens Big Data Strategy with Predictive Analytics Buy
SAP is hoping to move predictive analytics into the mainstream with the acquisition of KXEN, a San Francisco-based provider of user-friendly statistical forecasting software. No financial terms were disclosed. KXEN offers business users the ability to scan historical data for patterns and correlations that may shed light on future growth opportunities. SAP plans to bake ...
Hadoop Distributors Ally with SAP to Fuse Hadoop into Enterprise BI
Hortonworks and Intel have signed separate reseller agreements with SAP to make their Hadoop distributions more accessible for the nearly 250,000 organizations that use the vendor’s business intelligence software. SAP will redistribute the firms’ platforms and provide enterprise support for customers as part of an initiative to package “all” Hadoop distributions into its analytics lineup. ...
QLogic Extends Adapter Support to Latest Xeon Chips
A day after introducing new adapters for HP ProLiant servers, QLogic added PCI Express 3.0 support for E5-2600/1600 v2 Xeon processors across its entire FlexSuite line. Formerly code-named Ivy Town, the new chips perform up to 50 percent faster than previous generation CPUs. The PCIe 3.0 bus standard lets QLogic’s converged network adapters (CNAs) deliver ...
AppDirect Fuels Growth with Standing Cloud Acquisition, New Funding
AppDirect is bolstering its service brokerage platform with the acquisition of Standing Cloud, a VC-backed provider of application management software that operates out of Boulder, Colorado. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Standing Cloud offers an application orchestration layer that makes it easier for cloud providers to deploy and deliver software-as-a-service solutions. The startup ...
Apple’s Bruce Boston Discusses Visualization and Human Intuition | #tcc13
Bruce Boston of Apple views data science as the shortest and most efficient route to meeting business objectives. The veteran statistician detailed how visualization further empowers data geeks to drive value for their organizations in an interview on theCUBE at this week’s Tableau Customer Conference. “The problem that we have is that I can’t talk ...
Intel Launches Fourth Generation Mobile Chip
Intel is looking to loosen ARM’s grip on the mobile market with Haswell, the recently unveiled successor to its hugely popular Ivy Bridge architecture. The company says that Haswell chips are smaller, faster and consume less energy – three major selling points that management hopes will catch the attention of mobile device manufacturers. This week, ...
Nate Silver Says Big Data is Not a Free Ticket to Success | #tcc13
Nate Silver, a statistician who earned celebrity status after accurately predicting the results of the 2012 presidential election, stopped by theCUBE at this week’s Tableau Customer Conference to share his unique insights into Big Data analytics. Silver says that individuals often misinterpret data in an effort to validate their personal views or apply it to an ...
Cisco Jumps on Flash Bandwagon with Whiptail Acquisition
Cisco announced this morning that it’s bolstering its UCS server platform with the acquisition of Whiptail, a privately-held provider of all-flash storage arrays. The $415 million deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014. Founded in 2009, Whiptail addresses the high cost of flash with rackmount storage systems that ...
QLogic Releases New Adapters for ProLiant Users
QLogic is cozying up to HP with two new adapters for ProLiant Generation 8 blades and ProLiant DL and SL series servers. The adapters feature QLogic’s latest Fibre Channel technology, which offers three times the IOPS and double the throughput of previous generation solutions. The HP QMH2672 16Gb host bus adapter provides increased bandwidth for ...