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IBM’s New Linux Box Combines the Best of Watson + Open Source
IBM just pulled the curtains back on the PowerLinux 7R4, an open system that sports a scaled-down version of Watson’s brain. The 7R4 is a four socket, 32 core server designed for analytics, cognitive computing, web-scale applications and other CPU-intensive workloads that typically run in Linux environments. The system is available with IBM’s AIX and ...
Weekly Big Data Review: SQL Alternatives are All the Rage
This past week featured a number of Big Data developments. Cloudera released an open-source authentication engine for Hadoop, Google upgraded its Cloud Platform with new data management capabilities, and DataStax raised $45 million in funding to accelerate Cassandra development. EnterpriseDB also put itself in the limelight with new statistics that indicate the government is one ...
VMware Comfortably Beats Analysts’ Q2 Expectations
Virtualization may be becoming increasingly commoditized as vendors look to differentiate with services and management functionality, but this trend didn’t stop VMware from raking in a handsome profit this past quarter. On Tuesday, the majority-owned EMC subsidiary reported second quarter earnings of $244.1 million or $0.57 per share, up from $191.7 million in the same ...
IBM Chief Technical Strategist on Object Stores: Watch This Space
Clod Barrera, the chief technical strategist for IBM’s storage group, stopped by theCube at the recently concluded Edge 2013 conference to share his take on the bleeding edge technologies that are disrupting IT. TheCube host Dave Vellante mentions that the convergence of flash, metadata, and other trends is driving an unprecedented rate of innovation. Berrera ...
IBM’s Erik Eyberg Says Benefits of SVC Outweigh the Overhead
Eric Eyberg, the head of strategy and business development for IBM’s FlashSystems group, stopped by theCube at Edge 2013 to explain why the benefits of using SAN Volume Controller (SVC) in FlashSystem environments justify the added overhead. Flash solutions typically compromise on functionality in favor of performance, but that’s not the case with IBM’s offering. ...
EMC Blames Single-Digit Q2 Growth on ‘Weakened IT Spending Environment’
EMC posted record second quarter earnings Thursday morning, but analysts are not exactly pleased with the results. The storage juggernaut reported a net profit of $701 million or 32 cents a share, up 7.8 percent from the 29 cents a share it recorded in the same period last year but below the consensus estimate of ...
Mazda USA Chooses Rackspace to Host Mission-Critical Web Apps
Rackspace revealed Thursday that it has entered an agreement with Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) to host its web presence in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. MNAO’s websites and the MyMazda social app for Android and iOS attract 2.1 million unique visitors each month. The car maker migrated its services to Rackspace because its ...
HP CEO: We Have Got to Get into the Smartphone Business
Undeterred by its botched attempt to monetize WebOS, HP is once again moving in on the increasingly lucrative mobile space. Yam Su Yin, the vendor’s senior director of consumer devices for Asia-Pacific, confirmed his company’s intentions in an interview last month. HP chief exec Meg Whitman dragged this topic back into the limelight during a ...
Open-Source Marathon: Vendors Sign Up for the Race to Zero
Wednesday saw a flurry of activity in the open-source arena. The day kicked off with a milestone partnership between IBM and EMC-spin off Pivotal to accelerate the development of Cloud Foundry and extend support for third party services. Foundry, an open source platform-as-a-service solution developed by VMware, will be upgraded to support a wider range ...
Cloudera’s Sentry Safeguards Enterprise Hadoop Clusters
Cloudera has accelerated its efforts to make Hadoop more viable for the enterprise since former ArcSight exec Tom Reilly took over as CEO in June. The company has spent these last few months developing an open-source authorization module that it says gives organizations “unprecedented“ control over how users access data stored in Hadoop. The tool, ...