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Dells adds Chromebook support, agentless monitoring to management appliance
With investors no longer breathing down its neck for growth in its hardware business, Dell is continuing to invest in its $2.5 billion software business with enhancements to its KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance. Billed as a major upgrade, version 6.3 of the K1000 features what the vendor claimed is industry-first support for Chromebooks (right), as ...
MapR to give away Hadoop training to the tune of $50M
In a move that should put a dent in the global shortage of trained Hadoop professionals while boosting its own corporate citizenship image, MapR Technologies, Inc. today announced that it is giving away $50 million in in-kind training services via an online learning platform that anyone can access. The initial curriculum includes seven self-paced courses ...
Neo raises $20M as graph database market heats up
Less than a week after competitor Dato, Inc. (formerly GraphLab, Inc.) raised $18.5 million from investors, Neo Technology, Inc. announced that it has closed $20 million in Series C funding from two new and three current investors. The latest round brings the San Mateo-based startup’s total funding to $45 million. Although somewhat overshadowed by the feeding ...
Reinventing ERP: SAP builds a platform for the new networked business
SAP called us this week, ostensibly to correct some misconceptions they believe were presented in this recent story about the company’s marketplace, but the conversation quickly turned to SAP’s vision of how businesses are evolving and how technology must support that change. SAP believes that traditional business structures are about to be fundamentally disrupted by ...
Canonical restructures Ubuntu in mobile mode; Microsoft is first partner
Dramatizing the impact that mobile development and the cloud are having on traditional infrastructure software, Canonical, Ltd. today is announcing a version of its popular Ubuntu distribution that features transactional updates and a tiny core server image with configurable packages housed in a secure cloud. Canonical, which is the largest provider of Ubuntu distributions for cloud ...
HP anoints Mendix as preferred rapid development partner on Helion cloud
Mendix, Inc. got an important endorsement for its rapid application development technology this week as Hewlett-Packard Co. named the company’s rapid application development platform a preferred technology for HP’s Helion cloud. However, the non-exclusive, non-binding relationship is something short of a commitment on either side. Founded five years ago in Rotterdam and now based in Boston, ...
Report says Verizon testing major “white box” SDN deployment
In a move that could have big implications for network equipment vendors, Verizon Communications, Inc. is reportedly testing a large-scale software-defined networking (SDN) implementation for its core telecommunications services using off-the-shelf “white box” servers. The Rayno report, an investment newsletter focused on communications and digital media, is quoting several sources saying the U.S.’s largest telecom provider ...
Dell rollouts span converged infrastructure from small business to enterprise
In a message to the market that a grueling leveraged buyout hasn’t dampened its innovative spirit, Dell Inc. used its Dell World 2014 conference today to roll out a range of server and storage products aimed at both corporate and small business customers. The new products include a Dell PowerEdge FX server enclosure that packs ...
Analysis: IBM-Twitter deal marks Big Data ascendancy
IBM’s landmark alliance with Twitter, Inc. is a symbol of the changes that are sweeping through the IT industry, transforming both the role of technology and who uses it inside corporations. The deal also shows how important IBM’s Watson question answering technology is to the company’s future. Under the terms of the partnership, which was announced ...
In seeding strategy, MapR bundles its database into free community edition
In a February research report that analyzed Hadoop distributions from nine vendors, Forrester Research concluded that MapR Technologies, Inc. “has a leading solution; it must now make more noise in the market and accelerate its partnerships and distribution channels.” This week, MapR aims to do just that. The company is announcing today that its MapR-DB NoSQL ...