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HP Seeks Android Alternatives to Re-Enter Smartphone Race
According to Yam Su Yin, HP’s senior director of consumer PCs and media tablets for Asia-Pacific, the tech juggernaut is once again eyeing a share in the heavily crowded smartphone market. The executive told The Indian Express that the company is looking to double down on all segments of the mobile market, including tablets, notebooks ...
Bytes Sized: Putting Big Data into Perspective
To say that information technology has come a long way in the past few four decades would be an understatement. On Visual.ly, a San Francisco-based startup that connects data experts, designers and marketing professionals, we find an infographic entitled “Bytes Sized” to help us gain a better understanding of the journey from the early days ...
Rackspace Helps CERN Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
Rackspace has teamed up with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to develop a federation service that connects its platform-as-a-service solution with OpenStack and the Rackspace Private Cloud architecture. According to the company, its developers will collaborate with CERN’s openlab unit and a “full-time member of the CERN personnel team” to create a reference architecture ...
IBM to Make New York’s Lake George the “Smartest Lake” in the World
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Fund for Lake George commissioned IBM to build a sophisticated monitoring system that will help scientists gain new insights into the lake’s ecosystem. Big Blue said that it will provide the hardware, software and know-how needed to assemble a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at Rensselaer’s Margaret A. and David M. ...
Hadoop Summit Recap: Who Will Come Out Ahead in the Race to Zero?
TheCube stopped by Hadoop Summit in San Jose to bring you the latest news and analysis from the Big Data ecosystem. Near the end of Day 1, SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly assembled for a special discussion about the industry and the intense price competition in the Hadoop ...
CIOs Need to Become More Active, Visible to Fix IT
Bridging the gap between a company’s IT organization and business users is a daunting task, but not an impossible one. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, argues that it is within the CIO’s power to prove that IT is an “equal and capable business partner” so long as he or she receives a ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Amazon Hot on the Heels of Microsoft
This week, Microsoft announced that a leading provider of cloud-based automation software added its solution to the Azure marketplace, and Amazon revealed that it has allied with GE to analyze sensory data from a wide range of devices in AWS. WANdisco also got a spot in the limelight after it launched its S3-enabled analytics platform, ...
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s All About Abstraction (and Hortonworks)
The Big Data space saw a lot of activity this past week. Hortonworks nabbed $50 million from investors, Datameer unveiled software that can churn out insights faster than any data scientist, and Splunk introduced a tool that ingests information on the fly. Pentaho also grabbed a few headlines after it introduced a vendor-agnostic platform that ...
Stu Miniman on VMware’s Plan to Virtualize Hadoop
VMware is hoping to secure its place at the intersection of cloud and Big Data with Project Serengeti, a set of open-source tools designed to speed up the deployment of Hadoop in virtualized environments. At this week’s Hadoop Summit in San Jose, the company announced that the initiative is entering the next phase of its ...
WANdisco Brings Cloud Storage to Hadoop with WDD 3.6
Three months after introducing Linux support, WANdisco is unleashing an S3-enabled version of HDPS that brings public cloud functionality behind the firewall. WANdisco Distro (WDD) 3.6 supports all the features of Amazon’s popular file storage service, including searchable metadata tagging, snapshots, and data object versioning. The platform is compatible with the S3 API and packs ...