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VMWare Offers vCloud Service “Test Drive”
Some customers are still hesitant to try the cloud, and VMware is now trying to ease their apprehension. The company is offering a “test drive” of its vCloud service to both potential and current VMware customers. The vCloud Service Evaluation provides customers with full access to vCloud features and can even support current apps and ...
How Etsy Uses Performance Tuning with Syslog-ng
Etsy is known for helping people “make a living making things”. The engineers at Etsy also specialize in making things, particularly when it comes to managing the website’s servers. While some companies have embraced fancier logging tools like Flume, Scribe, or Logstash, Etsy has decided to stick with a tried and true technology: Syslog-ng. The ...
Accenture’s Big Data Lead Points Out New Data Challenges Around Context [Video]
The Cassandra Summit 2012 is a conference where developers and interested business parties can teach and learn about upcoming innovations with Apache Cassandra in particular and database technology in general. The CUBE host John Furrier and Wikibon contributor Jeff Kelly had a chance to sit down with Accenture Senior Manager and Big Data R&D Lead, ...
Intel Teams with Chinese Orgs in Open Source Cloud League
Intel is serious about getting China involved in OpenStack development. To further that cause, the chip manufacturer has teamed up with a variety of Chinese organizations to form the China Open Source Cloud League. The aim of the new group is to support and develop OpenStack within China and also collaboration with the global community ...
Symantec Infuses Cluster File System with Hadoop
Symantec announced today that it has created an add-on for its Cluster File System that leverages the power of Apache Hadoop to analyze big data for enterprise customers. Symantec has called in Hortonworks to develop Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop, which is designed to make it easier to deploy Hadoop in an enterprise environment. According ...
Hadoop for Big Data in Cloud is Inevitable, Says MapR
The use of Hadoop to manage big data in the cloud has gained momentum in recent times, but according to MapR, the choice to use it is not just a possibility; it is an inevitability. MapR’s vice president of marketing, Jack Norris said companies have an “insatiable appetite” to analyze data in the cloud, and ...
3 Tips for Creating a Reliable Web Service
Websites have become as second nature to the average user as TV, radio, and newspapers once were. People expect websites to be up and running all of the time, and web servers are designed to stay on all of the time. But that does not always happen. Sometimes even major sites go down when least ...
HP Cloud Powers DreamWorks Collaboration System
DreamWorks Animation SKG has integrated HP Cloud Services with Panzura’s Global Cloud Storage System for use in its project collaboration and file sharing network. Using the system, three DreamWorks Animation studio production teams can collaborate and tap into the cloud cloud applications and data storage that HP and Panzura offer. DreamWorks already utilizes HP IBRIX ...
Lenovo Targets Dell in Education and Government Market
Lenovo is going after Dell’s education and government market share, and the Chinese-based multinational IT corporation is not shy about admitting it. In an interview with Bloomberg, Thomas Looney, Lenovo’s Vice President and Genernal Manager, said that Dell is the “weakest kid on the playground right now”, and Lenovo has made it a point to ...
SpaceBase Introduces Memory-Centric Data Management
It is difficult enough to find data in a large database, but imagine if you also needed to locate the data and map its location in relation to other pieces of data. A distributed memory system needs to be able to place data on a specific node and also do so without putting an enormous ...