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Despite losing Google to MariaDB, Oracle still maintains a firm grip on the database market. The company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco attracted tens of thousands of customers and hundreds of partners, including Fibre Channel vendor QLogic. The networking equipment supplier is …
Hadapt Furthers SQL-NoSQL-Hadoop Integration
Breaking down data silos is a challenge enterprises have been trying to overcome for years. Hadapt, a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up that grew out of work by co-founder Dr. Daniel Abadi at Yale, has made it its core mission to finish the job. …
Wikibon Study: Enterprises Struggling to Make the Most Out of Their Data
Many enterprises follow their IT organizations into the Big Data revolution without fully understanding the risks and benefits of the technology, a new study from Wikibon found. Co-authors Jeff Kelly and Bert Latamore reached out to vendors and surveyed nearly 100 Big …
Nimble Accelerates Oracle Workloads with Latest Reference Architecture | #oow13
Nimble Storage is kicking off this week’s Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference with a new SmartStack reference architecture for relational database environments. Certified to run Oracle’s Linux distribution, virtualization framework and database software, the solution offers “adaptive performance with high availability, capacity savings, …
NetApp Deepens Oracle Integration As Part of Cloud Push
NetApp is doubling down on the ecosystem in a move to establish its Data ONTAP operating system as the foundation for a ‘universal data platform’ that spans the private, public and hybrid clouds. The storage vendor has recently taken another step toward …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …