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Internet of Things Review: From Games to Robot Love
Valve Corporation, the privately-held game distribution giant, is expanding the Internet of Things with a new console for its flagship Steam platform. Rumored to be dubbed Steam Box, the platform aims to disrupt living room entertainment by bringing Linux into mainstream gaming. Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, revealed during a keynote ...
Weekly Security Review: DDoS, Zero-Day Attacks on the Rise
Distributed denial of service attacks pose a serious threat to online gaming communities, according to the latest white paper from DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The company found that the average duration of attacks increased to 32.2 hours in 2013, up 67 percent from the 19.2 hours in the fourth quarter of 2012. The report lists ...
Virident Unveils Tier-Based Partner Program
Less than two weeks after agreeing to merge with Western Digital for $685 million, SSD maker Virident Systems is expanding its channel presence with a new worldwide partner program. The Virident Impact Program (VIP) features two tiers, Member and Elite, to enable partners of various sizes to incorporate FlashMAX II cards and FlashMAX Connect software ...
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 ...