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LexisNexis HPCC Takes On Hadoop as Battle for Big Data Supremacy Heats Up
Over the last ten years, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has developed what it calls a High Performance Computing Cluster, a proprietary method for processing and analyzing large volumes of data for its clients in finance, utilities and government. The company this week made HPCC open source and spun-off HPCC Systems to develop and market the technology. ...
HP Vertica 5.0 Includes New SDK For Customization, “Push-Button” Scalability
HP today released a complete platform upgrade of its Vertica Analytic Database, just four months after HP acquired the data warehouse appliance vendor in February. Most of the new and enhanced features in Vertica 5.0 have likely been in development for some time prior to the acquisition. None are particularly groundbreaking, but as a whole ...
theCube Summer Tour Round-Up: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Take Center Stage
To say the last five weeks here at Wikibon and SiliconANGLE have been a whirlwind is an understatement. In the last five weeks we’ve taken theCube Summer Tour 2011 to five events — Citrix Synergy, EMC World, SAP SAPPHIRE, Dell Storage Forum, and HP Discover. Two of the events, Dell and HP, took place in ...
HP’s Farley: Innovation in Storage is All About Integration
From Marc Farley’s perspective, a lot of the technology components that make up the storage ecosystem are not built from within. The trick is tying them all together. “I think the big areas where innovation comes along is integration. I think that most of the technology that comes to storage has been invented somewhere else ...
HP’s McNerny: Need for Highly Available, Highly Scalable Mission-Critical Systems Here To Stay
There’s been a lot of talk at HP Discover this week about converged architectures and moving to the cloud. But for Mike McNerny, there will always be a need for the high-end, mission critical computing monsters like HP Superdome. “There’s some places in the enterprise where I still need better than general purpose I need ...
EqualLogic Adds Network-Attached Storage Capabilities, Discusses Future at #theCube
For EqualLogic, offering an easy-to-manage storage product is paramount. “If you look at a typical EqualLogic customer, 50%, 60%, 70% of their applications are virtualized,” said Travis Vigil, Executive Director of Data Management Solutions at EqualLogic. “So it’s pretty common to be highly virtualized in EqualLogic environment. So they need dynamic storage, adaptive storage, flexible ...
HP’s Mahoney: Vertica Superior to Greenplum, Other “Postgres Pretenders”
When he founded Vertica in 2005, you might have expected Michael Stonebraker to base his new analytics database on Postgres, the open source relational database Stonebraker invented over 20 years earlier. But that’s not what happened. “He invented it and chose not to use it,” said Colin Mahoney, Vertica’s Vice President of Products and Business ...
Converged Storage is in, Unified Storage is Out
It’s been a year and a half since Dave Donatelli, HP’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking (ESSN), unveiled HP’s converged infrastructure strategy. HP’s storage unit has been trying to do its part ever sine, according to Tom Joyce, HP’s Vice President of Marketing for storage. “We’ve been working ...
HP’s Ganthier: Innovation “Alive and Well” at HP
Organizations want access to their information at a seconds notice – instant-on as HP’s Jim Ganthier puts it — and HP is determined to help them do just that. “What I mean by instant-on is if you look at businesses and governments around the world, with trillions of sensors being put out there, five billion ...
HP Touts “Open” Approach to Converged Infrastructure Deployments
HP is committed to an open standards approach to converged infrastructure deployments, a stark contrast to its main competitors in the market for converged server, storage and networking systems, according to HP’s David Donatelli. Speaking live inside theCube at HP Discover, Donatelli, HP’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking ...