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Birst and Tableau partner in another marriage of BI rivals
In an arrangement that symbolizes the craziness of the rapidly evolving business intelligence (BI) market, Birst, Inc. and Tableau Software, Inc. today announced a partnership that will combine Birst’s data extraction and normalization engine with Tableau’s popular visualization software via an ODBC connector. What makes the deal a bit of a head-scratcher is that the ...
These slides are all you need to make the case for an all-flash data center
For IT leaders looking to make the case to move their entire infrastructure to flash storage, Wikibon CTO and cofounder David Floyer has a slide deck for you. Floyer’s new 30-slide presentation goes deep into the economics of flash, looking far beyond the cost of the media and digging into productivity gains that will sweep ...
Flash will soon be cheaper than disk, Wikibon research confirms
Flash storage continues on a trajectory to become more affordable than magnetic disk for the majority of IT applications by the end of 2016, according to Wikibon’s latest Storage Cost Assumptions. In fact, flash has already surpassed magnetic disk as the most cost-effective medium for performance-driven applications, according to Wikibon CTO & Co-founder David Floyer. ...
Aerospike strategy chief Goldmacher places bets on word-of-mouth magic
Peter Goldmacher lasted just three months in a strategy and business development job at NoSQL database giant MongoDB, Inc. last year. “I found I didn’t want to work for someone and now I’m out of a job,” he joked to an audience at a BigDataNYC panel last fall. His aversion to full-time employment apparently didn’t ...
PacketZoom claims 10X mobile speed boost with drag-and-drop simplicity
A new Silicon Valley startup is tackling a problem that it believes is responsible for a whole lot more abandoned shopping carts and frustrated users than most people realize: slow mobile download speeds. PacketZoom, Inc. believes it has a better way to make smart phone connections zippier. Today it introduced what it calls a “mobile speed ...
Steve Chambers joins Wikibon, quickly puts stamp on cloud coverage | #CUBEConversations
Wikibon’s newest analyst brings with him a healthy dose of “British cynicism,” an extensive background in cloud infrastructure and a belief that complex IT challenges don’t lend themselves to marketing slogans and empty promises. Steve Chambers’ career in the cloud extends all the way back to 2002 when he joined Loudcloud, the company cofounded by ...
Cloudyn adds Azure to growing roster of supported public cloud services
With researchers predicting growth in the hybrid cloud market of as much as 50% this year alone, it’s no surprise that an aftermarket has emerged for technology that helps businesses optimize the multitude of cloud choices. Tel Aviv-based Cloudyn Ltd. is seeking to fortify its position as the most broadly based supplier of optimization services ...
Talon broadens client support in new version of enterprise file-sharing app
Talon Storage Solutions, Inc. has extended its MobileFast file-sharing application to support Android and Windows Phone clients as part of a broad set of enhancements announced this week. Previously, the platform only supported Apple iOS client devices. Users of all three platforms can now retrieve documents from Windows file shares for online or off-line editing ...
Huddle’s SaaS collaboration tool is first to win key Federal endorsement
Huddle Inc., which is one of a growing line of well-capitalized companies in the suddenly hot enterprise collaboration market, said the U.S. version of its cloud collaboration service is the first to be granted Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO) by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). That’s ...
Neo claims big performance gains in update of top-ranked graph database
Neo Technology, Inc. is taking steps to move its Neo4J graph database into the real-time analytics world with updates that significantly improve read and write performance and the addition of a cost-based optimizer to improve query performance. Neo4J, which is the world’s most popular graph database, according to DB-Engines Ranking, gets a new in-memory page ...
