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Fusion-io Adds Business Objects Exec to Board of Directors
Two weeks after Hewlett Packard added a former Microsoft chief software architect and two other corporate big wigs to its board, Fusion-io announced that it has appointed John Olsen as a director. The veteran executive brings more than 30 years of industry experience to the company. Olsen served as president and chief operating officer of ...
EMC Chief Database Architect Shares Oracle Data Protection Best Practices
Darryl Smith, the chief database architect for EMC’s IT organization, stopped by Wikibon headquarters to share his insights into managing large-scale Oracle deployments. Smith starts the interview by providing a little background about himself. He has worked with Oracle databases since 1988, and today he is is responsible for protecting, maintaining and future-proofing EMC’s massive ...
Sqrrl CTO Explains How to Bring Structure to a Schema-less Database
In the fourth episode of theCube’s special series on Accumulo, Sqrrl founding CTO Adam Fuchs discusses how his company’s platform helps enterprises organize their NoSQL environments. Fuchs opens the session with an overview of the system. Accumulo limits querying to a range within a keyspace, he explains, and that range represents a hierarchical structure which ...
Splunk + Pentaho for Non-Geeks : Unlocking the Value of Machine Data
Splunk has partnered with data integration specialist Pentaho to deliver a new solution for crunching data generated by applications, servers, sensors and other connected devices. Pentaho Business Analytics and Splunk Enterprise combines technology from both firms to integrate Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with relational databases, Hadoop, NoSQL deployments and enterprise application data. The platform ...
VMware Nabs SAP’s Sanjay Poonen, Shares Thoughts on Cloud Ecosystem
VMware announced Tuesday morning that Sanjay Poonen is taking over as the head of its end-user computing group. Poonen holds two patents, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree from Stanford University. He began his career as an engineer for Microsoft, and advanced to executive positions at prominent tech ...
Sqrrl CTO Explains the Secret Behind Accumulo’s Near Real-Time Performance
Adam Fuchs, the co-creator of Accumulo and the founding CTO of Sqrrl, gave an exclusive whiteboard explanation of his company’s technology on SiliconANGLE’s theCube. Accumulo is a highly secure, disk-based key-value store that combines Google’s BigTable storage system with innovations Fuchs and his colleagues developed as part of their work for the NSA. It utilizes ...
SAP Completes Acquisition of Cloud Ecommerce Specialist Hybris
SAP has finally completed the acquisition of hybris, a Switzerland-based provider of cross-platform commerce and transaction management solutions. Terms of the deal, which was originally announced in June, were not disclosed. “SAP and hybris will deliver the next-generation customer experience for businesses and consumers in a world where digital and physical converge seamlessly,” said Bill ...
EMC Marketing CTO Joins VMware as Chief Strategist
Chuck Hollis, an alumnus of theCube who earned a reputation as an expert on all things storage during his 18 year stint with EMC, quit his post as global marketing CTO to join VMware. Hollis will serve as the chief strategist for the virtualization giant’s storage application services business group, a new division that focuses ...
Weekly Internet of Things Recap: The Ubuntu Superphone
The Internet of Things keeps on growing. This week Canonical’s Victor Palau leaked new details about his company’s upcoming Ubuntu device, MIT researchers pulled the curtains back on a 3-D printer that can produce food, and Nvidia’s long anticipated SHIELD console finally hit stores. Canonical is looking to strengthen its foothold in the enterprise with ...
Weekly Security Review: Apple Partially Restores Dev Center, User Trust Plummets
The cybersecurity space saw a lot of action this past week. Apple has (mostly) bounced back from the recent attack on its developer portal, CSA found that PRISM eroded relations between vendors and enterprise users, and word came out that Lenovo has been blacklisted by the intelligence community. In related news, NQmobile released a security ...