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Itanium Damage Done, HP Wants $4 Billion from Oracle
Prior to the acquisition of Sun, Oracle entered into a long term agreement with HP to develop software for Intel’s Itanium chips, which can be found in a large percentage of the latter’s high-end enterprise boxes. Everything went according to plan until 2011, when Larry Ellison’s firm declared that it will prematurely stop supporting the ...
10gen Adds Search, Other Necessary Perks for Enterprise Appeal : MongoDB 2.4
As Big Data’s influence continues to show in the datacenter, the platforms making things smarter at every level of the stack grow in distinction and support. In another play for the enterprise, 10gen launched new versions of its flagship NoSQL database and its commercial offering. MongoDB Enterprise brings several new features to the toolbox, wooing ...
MapR Gets $30M Round : Big Boost for Hadoop Ecosystem, Apache Drill
This morning MapR announced that it has closed a $30 series C financing led by Mayfield Fund, a Menlo Park, CA-based VC that invests almost exclusively in early-stage startups. Existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round, which puts the company’s total funding at $59 million. MapR says that ...
The Role of Alpha Geek in the Enterprise: Data Scientist Deep Dive
Our economy and unemployment rate seem to be in a constant state of flux. But one of the most promising jobs in one of the strongest sectors is that of the data scientist, applicable to the tech industry and just about every other market. But as far as the enterprise goes, where does the data ...
Splunk Delivers Relational DB Integration with New Connector
Yesterday Splunk unveiled a new connector that provides real-time integration between its flagship analytics platform and traditional database systems from major vendors. DB Connect offers the user a convenient means to feed structured data directly into Splunk Enterprise, a big time and money saver for enterprise clients that store a sizable chunk of their information ...
Sanbolic Joins the Software-Led Party, Updates Melio Platform
Sanbolic, a veteran data management specialist, launched the fifth release of its Melio storage framework this week. Melio5 delivers data center services through a distributed, high-availability abstraction layer that automates the management of commodity hardware. The platform takes care of the plumbing in heterogeneous environments that include both SSD and disk-based components. The system eliminates ...
What Is the Software-Defined Datacenter? What’s It Mean for CIOs?
Software-led infrastructure is something we follow closely at SiliconAngle, given software’s importance in the data center for smarter, more efficient processes and cost savings. While this concept grows in popularity, the term is less than buzzworthy. But EMC may have changed the software’s not-so-sexy stigma on Wall Street with last week’s financial analyst meeting and ...
CIOs : Risks + Rewards for Startup vs. Vendor Hybrid Storage
In his latest piece on research project site Wikibon, Scott Lowe discusses the pros and cons of choosing a startup over a tier one vendor in the hybrid storage space. He details the risks that CIOs need to take into account when doing business with emerging players, and outlines the long-term rewards of choosing the ...
Top Cloud Picks: Pivotal, OpenStack + Dropbox Smear Campaign
This past week featured several major highlights, the most newsworthy of which was the analyst summit that EMC and VMware co-hosted in New York a few days ago. The event focused on Pivotal Initiative, the two firms’ joint cloud venture. Executives from both companies attended the event and revealed new details about the company: it ...
Bilingual Analytics, Privacy Infringement + More : This Week in Big Data
This past week features three noteworthy updates in the Big Data realm: two product launches and one multi-dollar settlement. A UK-based firm called SDL introduced a machine translation tool that can process multilingual content, such as social media interactions, in real-time. Dubbed BeGlobal, the modular solution can plug into third party text analytics solutions and ...