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Ask a Wikibon analyst: Can Nutanix challenge the virtualization leader?
A feisty Nutanix, Inc. came out swinging at its recent user conference, taking on virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. and seemingly setting its sights on Amazon Web Services in its bid to make data center infrastructure invisible. Nutanix, which is perhaps the hottest startup in the converged infrastructure market, introduced a hardware-agnostic implementation of the software powering ...
Bonitasoft buffs up BPM suite with developer appeal
Business process management software maker Bonitasoft is introducing version 7 of its application platform, saying it’s the 14-year-old company’s biggest upgrade in more than two years. The open source version of the platform is available for download today. The new release is designed to appeal to application developers with the addition of a graphical, drag-and-drop ...
Verilume bids to turn idle CPUs into ad hoc private clouds
A Boston-based startup that proposes to bring the economics of public cloud infrastructure to the private data center launches today with an open source stack that it says can dramatically increase utilization of IT resources while optimizing the availability of computing power for other business needs. Verilume, Inc.‘s product suite is said to enable IT ...
Birst bids to unify fragmented marketing analytics field
With survey after survey continuing to document the struggles marketers have measuring return on investment for their digital programs, Birst, Inc. has become the latest analytics vendor to throw them a lifeline. The company today is announcing enhancements to its Birst Marketing Analytics Accelerator that pull together data from multiple website tracking, marketing automation, customer ...
Clusterpoint hits U.S. shores with pay-as-you-go NoSQL database
One of the gotchas of public cloud infrastructure is penalty charges that can kick in when a user exceeds the amount of computing resource budgeted at startup. The newest player in the emerging database-as-a-service market (DBaaS) in the U.S. thinks it has a better way with a NoSQL service that bills usage after the fact ...
Opinion: App stores threaten traditional software sales models
SugarCRM, Inc. just launched an enterprise pp exchange for commercial users of its customer relationship management software. While the company previously offered an exchange for its open-source Community Edition, the extension makes it “easy for our commercial customers to find the rich set of business-grade solutions they need,” said Clint Oram, SugarCRM co-founder and chief ...
IBM bets big on Spark, calling it the Linux of Big Data analytics
IBM was late to the Hadoop party, and has had to settle for playing a supporting role. It isn’t going to make the same mistake again. The company is putting a major stake in the ground in support of Apache Spark, the high-speed analytics and machine-learning engine that is the hottest thing in Big Data ...
MapR 5.0 edges Hadoop closer to real-time processing
Continuing its drive to bring the batch-oriented Hadoop Big Data platform into the real-time world, MapR technologies, Inc. today is announcing a host of new features designed to support on-the-fly decision-making. MapR 5.0 is also crafted to support bigger workloads, responding to what MapR says is a trend toward customers running more applications on individual clusters. ...
Wikibon sizes up the skeptics as #HadoopSummit love fest begins
As Hadoop Summit prepares to kick off tomorrow in San Jose, CA, the Big Data platform that is shaking up the database industry is also struggling with an adolescent crisis and questions about whether it can support a full commercial ecosystem in the long term. Forecasts for the overall Big Data market continue to be ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for June 4 – stats about the sheer size of HP’s split
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News The HP split by the numbers: 2,800 apps and 75,000 APIs – Computerworld This story notes that HP has laid off 50,000 people over the last two ...
