How close Is Big Data to its inflection point? | #EMCWorld
At the EMC World conference, Stu Miniman got to speak with two EMC decision makers to shed a little light on Big Data’s burgeoning role in the IT industry. John Cardente, Big Data and…
How Treasure Data helped one of Japan’s largest retailers unlock its consumer insights trove
Although its name literally translates into “no-brand quality goods,” the Tokyo-listed Ryohin Keikaku, better known as Muji, is very serious about driving commercial awareness. Often referred to as the Ikea of Japan, the retailer…
FSF slams Mozilla’s ‘shocking’ DRM capitulation
Mozilla has come in for some harsh criticism from the Free Software Foundation, following its controversial decision to support Digital Rights Management (DRM) in its Firefox browser. The FSF has published an open letter…
Adobe screws up again with 24-hour Creative Cloud outage
Yesterday was a bit of a disaster for Adobe, as the company’s online services fell victim to a global outage lasting more than 24 hours. Adobe first admitted that its customers were locked out…
Pure Storage lowers the barriers to entry for flash, again
Pure Storage is continuing its mission to make all-flash storage systems more economically viable for traditional IT organizations with the introduction of a new entry-level array aimed at setting users on a pain-free path…
Hortonworks’ first acquisition is good news for the future of Hadoop security
As more Hadoop clusters move from pilot to production and enterprises continue to ingest growing amounts of key information about their operations and customers, the need to protect that data throughout the analytics lifecycle…
Cloudyn for OpenStack offers first of its kind multi-cloud deployments platform | #OpenStackSummit
By Saroj Kar
Cloudyn provides a monitoring service platform built using Amazon Web Services (AWS), which then analyzes performance and offers optimization suggestions. Cloudyn also provides similar functionality in Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud platform. With OpenStack available…
Red Hat OpenShift 2.1 announcement shows dedication to DevOps paradigm
By Kyt Dotson
Application delivery and platform is a very important component of any DevOps-enabling infrastructure and Red Hat is looking to make their OpenShift Enterprise PaaS platform the go-to for enterprise with the release of version…
Simplicity is key to effectiveness at scale, says ViPR mastermind | #EMCworld
Although a significant (and highly touted) milestone in the company’s history, the first iteration of ViPR was only a stepping stone towards EMC’s vision for software-defined storage. Earlier this month at its annual customer…
From good to great : Good Technology IPO signals new direction
Mobile security solutions provider Good Technology has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The public filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comes after a year of speculation that the Sunnyvale, CA…