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This past week featured a good number of cloud developments. Opscode unveiled a new version of its flagship automation platform, security researchers discovered a critical flaw in Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) and Hewlett-Packard announced a new scale-out appliance. Mega CEO Vikram Kumar …
Weekly Big Data Review: Visualization and National Security
The Big Data space saw a lot of action this week. Tableau held its first earnings call, CloudPhysics raised funding for its data-driven IT operations tool, and Nimbus pulled the curtains back on two new powerful flash systems. In other news, DARPA …
Court Throws Out Mark Hurd Lawsuit
A U.S. District Judge has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit over the lewd conduct of former HP CEO and chairman Mark Hurd, who resigned in 2010 after a marketing consultant named Jodie Fisher accused him of sexual harassment. The accusations turned into a …
WANdisco Earns Dell’s Seal of Approval
WANdisco, a rising star in the increasingly crowded Big Data space, announced that its newly released Non-Stop NameNode software has been certified for integration and interoperability with Dell PowerEdge servers. Non-Stop NameNode WAN Edition is a networking solution that does away with …
Looker Nets $16M for Browser-Based Data Modeling
Next generation business intelligence is the name of the game for Looker, a Santa Cruz, CA-based startup that offers a browser-based development environment for data scientists. The platform is built around LookML, a proprietary language that lets analysts recycle queries, manipulate metrics …
HP Unveils Scale-Out, Software-Defined Storage Appliance
Hewlett Packard is jumping into the software-defined storage fray with a new scale-out StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) that offers data tiering and tight integration with VMware and Microsoft. The beefed-up appliance features auto tiering at the sub-LUN (logical unit number) level, …
The CIO Knows Best, Says Voonami’s Steve Newell
Voonami, a Utah-based provider of colocation, hosting and managed services, has successfully added 20 terabytes to its environment using hybrid storage arrays from Tegile. Steve Newell, a sales engineer with Voonami, discussed his company’s use case during last month’s Wikibon Peer Incite …
IT Trends Disrupting Enterprise Investment in Data Center Infrastructure
The many responsibilities of the CIO include determining if the company’s software needs are best served by an off-the-shelf solution, a customizable product that can be tailored to the organization’s use case, or an internally developed application. According to The 1610 Group …
HP Vertica Partner Strategy: Disrupting IT with Big Data and Open Standards
SiliconANGLE’s theCube hosted dozens of business and IT leaders during the recently concluded HP Vertica Big Data Conference. Among the guests were executives from HP Vertica and prominent partners such as Cloudera, which joined forces with the database maker to deliver plug …
Chartio Brings Plug and Play Data Visualization to Windows
Chartio, an emerging provider of cloud-based data aggregation and visualization software, has added support for Microsoft SQLServer and Azure to its flagship offering. The two solutions join an already lengthy list of supported platforms, among them MySQL, PostgresSQL, Amazon Web Services, Amazon …