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NetApp Aids Cloud Transitioners with AWS On Premise Storage
NetApp just unveiled its newest offering, a storage solution that natively supports connectivity between on premise infrastructure and Amazon Web Services. It’s based on AWS Direct Connect. NetApp Private Cloud for AWS has several major advantages, according to its maker. For starters, it allows the user to plug their data center directly into the Amazon ...
HP Discover 2012: Expect More Ways to Harness Data, Manage Services
HP Discover 2012 conference will be held in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The event is the vendor’s biannual opportunity to showcase its achievements from the past six months, and strengthen its ties with its massive ecosystem of partners and client organizations. Chief executive Meg Whitman will be clearing her schedule to speak at the ...
Is 40M Licenses for Windows 8 a Triumph?
Consumers and organizations purchased over 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the operating system launched in stores on October 26, according to Tami Reller. The Microsoft executive, who serves as the company’s chief marketing officer and CFO, revealed this milestone during her keynote at this week’s Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. “The ...
Samsung’s Not-So-Lofty Sales Goals and a More Responsible Labor Outlook [VIDEO]
Samsung is stepping up its game both in the mobile space and internally, with a new sales milestone and plans to improve labor conditions in its Chinese plants. According to the latest figures from the manufacturer the Galaxy Note II phone-tablet hybrid shipped over 5 million units to date. Samsung’s flagship phablet hit 3 million ...
Prediction Analytics Made to Order: More BI for HANA
BI software maker SAP is introducing a new product that will help businesses create custom predictive analytics models. SAP Predictive Analysis can run as a standalone solution or in conjunction with HANA, the company’s increasingly popular database system. The new offering provides users with a relatively easy to use environment for collecting data, manipulating it, ...
Not Enough Nexus 4’s to Go Around. Is Google Ready for Hardware Sales?
As the largest web company in the world with nearly two million servers at its disposal, Google dominates search and mobile. But it seems that commerce is slightly out of the tech giant’s comfort zone, as many Android enthusiasts found out this week. The Nexus 4, arguably one of the most anticipated smartphones to date, ...
More Data Types, Tools in EnterpriseDB Manager 3.0
PostgreSQL firm EnterpriseDB is releasing a new version of Postgres Plus Advanced Server, alongside Postgres Enterprise Manager 3.0. The updated software runs better, supports more data types and make it easier for database administrators to manage their environment. Postgres Plus 9.2 does a few things better than its processors, thanks to more automation and “ninth generation ...
Lessons in Big Data Transformation from HP Discover 2012
Hewlett-Packard is holding its second annual HP Discover event in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The vendor will likely tackle many of the same subjects it addressed during the US conference in June this year, namely the shift towards big data and the ongoing challenges of IT infrastructure to support the change. Antonio Neri, senior ...
Boundary Brings Big Data to AWS With More Cloud Transparency
Boundary updated its cloud monitoring service this morning with new features that can detect technical difficulties and pending application issues using the power of analytics. The update includes a “proactive alerting” capability that tracks app behavior and sends out a warning as soon as something breaks the pattern. This supplements the second new feature that ...
New Details of Autonomy Accounting Practices Unfold After Investor Sues [VIDEO]
A Hewlett-Packard shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company for an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy, the British analytics firm it acquired last year. When the deal was first announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison deemed the $11 billion buyout price inflated, a statement that today seems more valid than ever. The unnamed stakeholder behind the ...