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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 ...
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 ...