Biggest Big Data Acquisitions of 2012 (So Far)
Tech companies are riding a wave of big data acquisitions in order to better understand and pinpoint where consumer cash is headed. With the third quarter of 2012 not even halfway through, we’ve seen…
JiWire’s Location Graph Broadens Mobile Ads Targeting Audience
By Saroj Kar
A study by JiWire, a location-based mobile media company, brings a stone to the maturity of the public regarding behavior and location to help marketers target specific audiences. The company introduced a new tool…
OpenStack Isn’t Quite Enterprise-Ready, Says HP Cloud Services Performance Test
In a presentation to the OpenStack APAC Conference in Shanghai earlier in August, Qingye Jiang, founder and chief architect of nascent public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider ezCloud, describes the results of his stress tests of the…
How Infrastructure, Data Enable the Leaderless Enterprise
Deloitte Consulting director John Hagel and Suketu Gandhi, the firm’s marketing head, co-authored an article with Forbes contributor Giovanni Rodriguez that takes a look into the merit of the CEO-less organization. This is a proposition…
Teradaci Offers New Products, Cutting Costs for Cloud Clients
By Amber Harris
Teradaci, the company that developed the PC-over-IP (PCoIP), has introduced the Teradaci RemoteDesktop Services Host (RDSH) solution, which gives PCoIP capabilities to Microsoft Windows Server RDS environments. Now, IT managers who use both VMware View and…
EMC Brings More Services to the Channel
Storage behemoth EMC is offering its distributors new resources to facilitate a higher margin, services-powered business model for resellers that work with its storage and backup solutions. More specifically Data Domain storage, Avamar deduplication…
RT News Hit By DDoS Attack, Taken Offline For Three Hours
The cyber wars are heating up, with the popular Russian government funded RT News becoming the latest victim to fall foul of a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that knocked the site…
DataXu Active Analytics is Big Data in Real Time on Hadoop for Marketing
Boston-based DataXu is doing something that many people consider impossible – near-real time analytics on Hadoop HBase, which is supposed to be a batch system. And this is no lab experiment. It is gathering…
LucidWorks Changes Name, But Remains Focused on Data-Centric Applications
LucidWorks recently changed its name (from Lucid Imagination), but the Redwood City, Calif.-based company remains laser focused on delivering powerful data-centric application development platforms. In fact, the company streamlined its product offerings, eliminating multiple…
CIOs Say DDN is One of the “Most Strategic” Big Data Hardware Vendors
Storage solutions provider DataDirect Networks is touting a new survey by Pacific Crest Securities that ranked it as one of the top two strategic hardware supplies for big data. The research firm reports that…