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HP Adds Enterprise Superstars to Board of Directors
Hewlett-Packard announced this week that it has appointed three corporate giants to its board, raising the number of directors from nine to twelve. The new additions include Robert “Dob” Bennett, a principal of Hilltop Investments and the former CEO of Discovery and Liberty Media; Raymond Ozzie, former chief software architect for Microsoft and founder of ...
Telligent Takes Zimbra off VMware’s Hands
Zimbra is something of a hot potato. The email and collaboration specialist was acquired by Yahoo! a mere two years after its foundation, and got sold to VMware three years later in January 2010. This week, it exchanged hands once again. On Monday, enterprise social software provider Telligent announced that it has agreed to buy ...
Fusion-io Repositioning Ahead of Earnings Call
Flash memory juggernaut Fusion-io is set to announce its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 on August 7. The earnings report will shed new light on the company’s activity in recent months, namely its acquisition of NexGen and the high-profile management shakeup that left many analysts speculating about its future. In ...
Nutanix Engineer Explains Why His Company’s Appliance Makes Sense for Analytics
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson stopped by Nutanix’s booth at Hadoop Summit to bring you a fresh perspective on its flagship Virtual Computing Platform. Karthik Ranganathan, a member of the company’s technical crew and a former lead programmer at Facebook, walked him through the details. Ranganathan describes the solution as a converged infrastructure appliance ...
MicroStrategy’s Scott Cappiello on the Rise of Hadoop
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson caught up with Scott Cappiello, the vice president of product management for business analytics specialist MicroStrategy, at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. The two chatted about data visualization and MicroStrategy’s value proposition for enterprises that are implementing Hadoop in their environments. Cappiello observes that Hadoop Summit 2013 featured ...
MapR’s Chief Architect Addresses Data Analytics in the Traditional Enterprise
Hadoop has a long way to go before meeting the standards set forth by enterprise-grade software, according to MapR chief application architect Ted Dunning. He discussed the Big Data ecosystem and his company’s efforts to bridge the gap between the open-source community and the traditional enterprise in a recent interview with SiliconAngle Studio B host ...
Dell Unleashes New Version of Desktop Virtualization Platform
Dell says that the latest version of its Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization platform can help organizations of all sizes boost efficiency and drive down costs. The soon-to-be-available solution features server provisioning capabilities, support for 64-bit software, and several other notable improvements. Dell teamed up with virtualization firm CloudVolumes to make WSM’s management and ...
Impetus Business Development Chief Shows Off Company’s Big Data Lineup
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson caught up with Yue Cathy Chung, the senior director of business development for Impetus Technologies, to discuss her company and take a look at their newest Big Data solution. Chung starts the interview by providing a brief rundown of Impetus. The firm is a software engineering and IT services ...
Cloudera’s Drew O’Brien Says Hadoop is Set to Become the Facebook of Big Data
SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmonton stopped by the Cloudera booth at Hadoop Summit 2013 to discuss Big Data and search with Drew O’Brien, the company’s senior manager of product marketing. O’Brien boasts that Cloudera introduced two new products this year: Impala, its real-time SQL query engine for Hadoop, and Cloudera Search. As the name ...
Abhishek Mehta Addresses Omni-channel
Abhishek Mehta, the founder of Tresata, explained how his startup’s Big Data suite will help enterprises make omni-channel commerce a reality in a recent Q&A with SiliconAngle NewsDesk Head Writer Winston Edmondson. Mehta starts the interview by explaining the buzzword. He tells Winston that omni-channel describes the notion of “looking at all possible avenues to ...