Planning to foster more than 30 start-ups, General Electric Co. and Frost Data Capital have partnered to found the Frost I3 Industrial Internet incubator. Frost I3 is charged with no small task: to nurture massive change in global industry and to cultivate the adoption and innovation of the Internet of Things (IoT). Basing their venture on the ...

In a bid to make its in-memory NoSQL database an industry standard, Aerospike said it will release the Community Edition of its database server and developer toolkit under open source licenses. The company’s Enterprise Edition, which includes features like production-ready binaries, hot patches and 24×7 enterprise support, remains under commercial license, but is available for a free trial period. ...

Tableau Software’s 8.2 update includes a variety of  improvements — Tableau can now run natively on Macs, for example — but the new Story Points feature stands out. Story Points allows Tableau customers to accompany visualizations of their data with a unique, data-driven narrative that helps all viewers interpret, understand, and act on their data. ...

RapidMiner, a predictive analytics innovator, this week announced its acquisition of Radoop, a close RapidMiner partner and Big Data analytics tool for Hadoop. The integration of Radoop into RapidMiner extends RapidMiner’s reach into the Hadoop ecosystem and paves the way towards enterprise-level businesses that need Big Data analytics to deliver insightful, actionable results via a ...

Some organizations hire wave-making “superstars” without considering their effect on a business’ team atmosphere. Nimble Storage is not that type of organization, said CEO Suresh Vasudevan, when he stopped by theCUBE during the Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Platform launch event. Their collaborative, “no jerks” company culture has helped Nimble Storage continue to provide innovative product ...

Every year, IBM recognizes their most successful partners with Winning Edge awards. This year, ProActive solutions received a Winning Edge storage award. Phil Schamberger, Director of Technical delivery at ProActive Solutions, stopped by theCUBE to talk  storage, cloud, and IBM provider-partner-client relationships with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante.   ProActive investments in storage garner ...

In their interview with Rob Davis, CTO at QLogic, John Furrier and Stu Miniman of theCUBE got an insider view of QLogic’s current goals and roles in the quickly accelerating IT marketplace. Furrier began by asking “What’s going on with QLogic and EMC World?” “All kinds of changes at QLogic,” David replied, citing the new ...

Thanks to Marc Andreessen, the tech industry has known since 2011 that “software is eating the world.” Steve Wojtowecz, VP of Storage and Network Management in the software development side of IBM, visited theCUBE to discuss just how much software can benefit compute, network, and especially storage, to help businesses cut their costs drastically.   ...

For the second year in a row, IBM has chosen GlassHouse, an IBM reseller out of Toronto, Ontario, as one of their “Winning Edge” award recipients. The Winning Edge Awards for Systems Storage are granted, said Robert Moniz, GlassHouse VP and General Manager, to companies that show “continued performance in the marketplace for selling storage” ...

Lee Memorial Health Systems is one of many healthcare providers around the country implementing electronic medical health records. As the largest healthcare provider in southwest Florida, Lee Memorial Health Systems owns all the hospitals in that area, and also handles long term care, home health, and physician offices. Mike Smith, CIO of Lee Memorial, stopped ...