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Syncsort Partners with Greenplum, Hortonworks to Analyze Big Data
Syncsort has been creating software to enhance databases since it released high speed sorting tools for mainframes in the 1960s. Why mess with a good thing? This month the company partnered with both Hortonworks and Greenplum. Hortonworks is a Yahoo spinoff that provides commercial products and services for Hadoop. The new partnership enables integration between ...
Lenovo Quietly Moving to Threaten HP in the PC Market
The world’s second-largest PC maker, Lenovo, doesn’t get a lot of attention compared to competitors like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell. Being low key, however, certainly hasn’t negatively impacted the company’s sales. Lenovo surpassed Dell to become number two PC manufacturer right behind leader HP in 2011. It doesn’t seem Dell will be regaining its position ...
Nimble and VMware Partner for Better Desktop Virtualization
Storage provider Nimble storage revealed that its flash-enable storage architecture will be supported in VMware’s View Mobile Secure Desktop. VMware view allows companies to automate much of the work required to deploy and provision virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The certification of Nimble’s hybrid disk and flash arrays gives VDI users a new option for VDI ...
VMWare Makes Its Move in the Big Data Market
VMware is making progress on its goal to become a player in the big data market. Back in February, Richard McDougall, Application Infrastructure CTO and Principal Engineer in the Office of the CTO, blogged about the company’s plans for expansion into the big data market. Big data is definitely a growth area, but is it ...
Juniper Signs Up to Use Scala
Typesafe has made a bit of progress on its mission to position the Scala language and Akka middleware as a preferred option for high-end development of web scale solutions. Typesafe announced a new multi-year agreement with Juniper Networks. Juniper will use Typesafe Stack to create software in products, which Juniper has not disclosed. The press ...
What’s Keeping You from the Cloud? Survey Says…
There are few things analysts – no matter what kind of analyst – love more than counting things and making predictions. Researchers at venture capitalist firm North Bridge Venture Partners are no different. The company released the results of its second annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. The poll, which included 785 respondents, captured the ...
RedHat’s Big Week of Releases: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and More
Open source software vendor Red Hat held a half-day web-based virtual event focused on its middleware solutions. The event, which was heavily targeted at admins and developers, gave Red Hat an opportunity to announce a new version of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), a brand new distributed in-memory NoSQL database and the latest changes ...
HP Begins Its Journey to Fill the Big Hole in Autonomy Leadership
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun its search for new leader for Autonomy, which it acquired last October for $10.3 billion. The new executive will fill the role vacated by former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch who left in May. HP announced his departure at the same time as its poor second quarter financial results, which showed a ...
Red Hat Reveals Mixed Earnings News Amidst Ongoing Changes, New Products
Red Hat had a busy week. The company released a brand new product, JBoss Data Grid 6 and new versions of its enterprise application platform and enterprise Linux distribution. However, this week wasn’t all about the code, the company also revealed its 2013 first quarter financial results. Red Hat had met or exceeded investor expectations ...
Sepaton Releases New Data Backup and Protection Solution
Sepaton, which specialized in disk-based data protection solutions, has released new software for backing up and restoring large databases. The new solution, DeltaStor DBeXstream, supports simultaneous deduplication and parallel processing across multiple ports, which give customers both fast backups and smaller backup sizes. Size and speed are typically mutually exclusive in backup solutions, the ability ...