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WANdisco Reports Growing Interest in Big Data Software
WANdisco, is a well-known provider of active-active replication solutions that dived into the Big Data last November when it acquired AltoStar for just over $5 million. This week, the company announced that it’s just landed its first Big Data deal with a UK carrier, that chief executive David Richards calls “one of the biggest in ...
Actian Picks Up ParAccel to Boost Analytics Portfolio
Database solutions provider Actian bought out ParAccel, a Big Data startup that sells high-performance analytics software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the fact ParAccel raised $64 million in funding to date suggests that Actian shelled out a hefty sum for the Campbell, CA-based company. ParAccel claims that it has over 60 customers, ...
[EXCLUSIVE] Sqrrl Chief Discusses Disruptive Enterprise Security in First Video Interview
Mark Terenzoni, the recently appointed CEO of sqrrl, stepped into theCube this week to give one of his first video interviews to Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante. The executive provided some background about his company and talked about the disruptive technology that the security firm introduced to the market. Sqrrl sells tools and ...
Hyperscale is Taking Over the ITO Landscape
Taking a brute-force approach to managing large data centers is impractical, a fact Google, Facebook, and other web-scale giants discovered first-hand several years ago. To overcome this, these firms have pioneered hyperscale as a way of keeping their mega-services running efficiently, and now enterprises are following in their footsteps to address their growing Big Data ...
The Wikibon Survival Guide for AWS Rivals + Wannabes
Amazon’s role in transforming the cloud into the megatrend it is today has enabled it to secure a dominant position in the marketplace. Wikibon estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) raked in nearly $2 billion in 2012, and predicts that the platform will generate over $3 billion in revenue by end of this year. AWS ...
Big Data Review: Tokutek Launches New Offerings, Dell Introduces Toad 2.0 and More
Three different vendors had announced major product updates this week. Tokutek open-sourced the latest version of its MySQL platform and unveiled a new enterprise service, Pentaho acquired a Portuguese firm by the name of Webdetails, and Dell introduced a new release of its database management platform. Tokutek released the source-code for TokuDB 7, the latest ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Pivotal Funding, Amazon Launches DevOps Utility + More
This week Pivotal Labs raised over $100 million in funding from a high profile investor, VMware reported its first quarter earnings, and MuleSoft acquired a partner to boost its cloud API platform. Amazon also made headlines when it launched a new tool that simplifies the management of AWS environments. General Electric injected $105 million into Pivotal ...
FlashCube Highlights : Invest in Flash or Fall Behind the Pack
SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier discussed the flash M&A scene with Wikibon’s David Floyer and Dave Vellante in a FlashCube episode that aired this Wednesday. Vellante starts the discussion by going over the most recent high-profile acquisitions in this space: IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, and the $430 million EMC-XtremIO deal that was announced in May 2012. ...
IBM CEO Reshuffles Management after Poor Q1 Results, Not Likely to Make a Difference
IBM reported its first quarter earnings last week, missing the Street’s estimate for the first time in nearly 8 years. The news sent IBM’s stock tumbling down, and forced CEO Virginia Rometty to reassign one of her top execs. The exec also released an “unusually blunt” video memo in which she chided the company’s 434,000 ...
CIOs, Beware of Cloud Sprawl : But One Arrow in the Quiver
Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, writes that the buzz around cloud computing has subsided a great deal in recent years. As a result, IT departments are no longer pressured by the proposition that the cloud is an “immediate replacement” for on-premise infrastructure, but CIOs face new challenges that have to be addressed ...