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ClusterHQ, Clustrix strengthen exec ranks with tech veteran CEOs
Container data management provider ClusterHQ today announced the promotion of a tech veteran with a track record of selling successful startups to the CEO position. Mark Davis takes the ClusterHQ reins from founding CEO Luke Marsden, who will continue as company CTO and head of product. Marsden said Davis’s progressive vision and extensive experience in the ...
Size doesn’t matter for these data visualization experts | #data14 CrowdChat
Wikibon‘s Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly recently hosted a preview CrowdChat ahead of the Tableau Conference 2014 (#data14) that is taking place this week, September 8-12, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA. For the past seven years, the Tableau Conference, hosted by Tableau Software Inc., has been the gathering place for data enthusiasts ...
Dropbox needs more than price cuts to keep Pro users
Another price drop seen in the cloud storage wars as cloud storage provider Dropbox, Inc. today announced that new Dropbox Pro customers will now get one terabyte (TB) of space for $9.99/month, a marked difference from the previous 100 gigabytes (GB) that $9.99 used to buy. The company said existing Dropbox Pro users will see ...
EMC unveils RecoverPoint for VMs: Data protection as a service for hybrid cloud | #VMworld 2014
Aiming to redefine hybrid cloud data protection, IT storage solution provider EMC Corp. today announced RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs), a data backup and recovery solution for applications in VMware-based cloud environments. The announcement was made at VMware, Inc.’s VMworld 2014 conference in San Francisco this week. As today’s organizations move toward the hybrid cloud and software-defined ...
Future of storage isn’t data containers, DataGravity says as it unveils data-aware storage platform
DataGravity Inc. yesterday announced the DataGravity Discovery Series, which the startup claims is the industry’s first “data-aware storage platform” that tracks data access and analyzes data as it is stored. As such, the DataGravity software architecture lets IT teams, as well as security, compliance and line-of-business users automatically analyze unstructured data as it is ingested. ...
VMworld 2014 Preview: The highlights in video
With two major acquisitions, multiple product announcements and management changes, server virtualization leader VMware, Inc. has experienced significant growth since its VMworld 2013 conference last August. Today, just days ahead of the 11th annual VMworld 2014 conference (which begins on Sunday), let’s take a look back at VMware’s major milestones of the past 12 months. ...
Startup claims to transform data centers into private clouds in 5 minutes
Startup Platform9 Systems, Inc. has emerged on the private cloud scene, formally announcing its presence yesterday along with a $4.5 million Series A funding investment from Menlo Park, Calif.-based Redpoint Ventures. Platform9 claims its Software as a Service (SaaS) platform can transform an organization’s existing infrastructures into “an agile, self-service private cloud” and offers the “simplicity ...
BlackBerry aims to lead enterprise mobile security via Secusmart acquisition
Secure voice communications will be an important criteria going forward for most enterprise customers, and BlackBerry Ltd hopes to achieve enterprise mobile security market domination through its first acquisition since new CEO John Chen was appointed last November. Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry on Tuesday announced that it is acquiring Secusmart GmbH, a Dusseldorf, Germany-based provider of ...
Hortonworks receives $50M from HP to push Apache Hadoop in latest Big Data partnership
Open-source Apache Hadoop provider Hortonworks Inc. and Hewlett-Packard today announced a partnership to accelerate the adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise. Supported by a $50 million equity investment by HP, the Hortonworks Data Platform will be integrated with HP’s HAVEn Big Data platform to allow HP customers to deploy the Hortonworks Data Platform as the ...
A veteran’s new best friend: What is IBM’s Watson Engagement Advisor?
IBM’s Watson is no longer just the world’s most famous Jeopardy! game-playing computer. IBM yesterday announced that it has put Watson to work as the world’s most intelligent digital assistant in the first consumer-facing app for veterans making the transition from military to civilian life. IBM and the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a financial services ...