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Big Data and the Public Cloud Make a Perfect Couple, says Analyst
Analyzing external Big Data in the cloud makes more sense than bringing it in-house, says Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly. He outlined the reasons organizations should trust third party data with their cloud provider in his latest piece on the Wikibon blog. The public cloud offers an optimal environment for testing proof-of-concepts, but moving sensitive corporate data ...
Amazon is Stirring the Cloud Pot, but Rivals Still In the Mix
Jason Mendenhall, executive vice president for cloud at Switch Communications, the collocation provider that operates the “ginormous” SuperNap data center in Las Vegas, says that Amazon Web Services is not growing at the expense of the enterprise market – quite the opposite. During this week’s Wikibon Peer Incite event, he discussed how the public cloud ...
Open-Source Flash is Powering Hyperscale, Starts with Consumers, says Fusion-io’s Gary Orenstein
Gary Orenstein, senior vice president of products for Fusion-io, took some time off this week to chat with SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. The trio discussed flash, Big Data, and software-led infrastructure. Orenstein, a Cube alumnus, starts the discussion by providing an overview of the solid-state market. He explains how flash evolved ...
Pentaho Snatches up Webdetails to Boost Data Visualization, Services
Business intelligence provider Pentaho picked up Webdetails, a Portuguese consultancy that has designed numerous plugins for its software over the course of the past few years. The 20-strong team is best known for its Community Tools, or “CTools”, a set of free utilities for creating dashboards and reports. Although the terms of the deal were ...
Hadoop is Important, but it’s Only a Part of the Picture, says IBM’s Tim Vincent
Tim Vincent, an IBM Fellow and CTO of Information Management for the company, provided his unique take on Big Data in a Monday interview hosted by Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly. In the first part of the discussion, Vincent focuses on the Big Data solutions that his company officially launched earlier this month. He starts with PureData, ...
MuleSoft Picks Up ProgrammableWeb, Puts Latest Funding Round to Work
MuleSoft has set out to become the ultimate “go-to destination for APIs and integration,” an ambitious goal made more attainable by the $37 million it secured in a recent Series E funding round led by NEA. This morning, the San Francisco-based SaaS integration firm showed its investors that it’s making good use of their money. ...
Self-Serve BI Gets a Dell Upgrade, Plugs Into Amazon + Microsoft Analytics
Dell just unveiled a slew of new features for its Toad Business Intelligence Suite, a database management platform that helps enterprises extract insights from both traditional and non-traditional data sources. Toad 2.0 ships with a number of enhancements, including new data connectors for Microsoft Analysis Services and Amazon’s DynamoDB and Redshift database services. The reworked ...
Another Open-Source Win with Tokutek’s MySQL Storage Engine
This week Tokutek released the source code of TokuDB v7, the latest version of its flagship storage acceleration engine for MySQL and MariaDB. The company also announced a new commercial offering targeted at enterprise customers. TokuDB Community Edition comes with a number of bug fixes and tweaks for the two supported databases, as well as ...
IBM Expands DevOps Footprint with UrbanCode Acquisition
The methodology that has become known as DevOps is proving to be a key driver towards gaining the competitive edge in the enterprise, on par with the Big Data and cloud computing movements that have swept through the market in recent years. According to the IBM Institute for Business Value, 70 percent of companies that ...
Join Us Tomorrow for a Live Peer Incite Discussion: Amazon and OpenStack Wrestle over Enterprise Infrastructure
Amazon is sending ripples through the industry with its aggressive expansion into the enterprise space, a highly lucrative market that is gradually warming up to the public cloud. Tomorrow, a Wikibon “Peer Incite” panel will discuss the company’s portfolio and its ongoing campaign against traditional data center vendors with Jason Mendenhall, the executive vice ...