Data Gravity in a Converged Infrastructure
VMware’s Dave McCrory created the concept of data gravity. It’s a way to show how data has a gravitational pull. Yesterday, I discovered a blog post by Steve Chambers, who works in the office…
Fusion-IO Continues Its Path to Dominance in Storage Market
Apple is expanding its use of Fusion-IO. Apple’s increasing use of the Fusion-IO storage platform may move the company ahead of Facebook as Fusion-IO’s biggest customer. If you aren’t familiar with Fusion-IO, you might…
Google’s F1 Brings NoSQL Scale To Relational Databases
MySQL familiarity or NoSQL scalability seems like a binary choice. But Google’s F1 – the new relational database management system (RDBMS) underpinning several of Google’s customer-facing, business-critical advertising services – lays claim to combining…
This Week in Big Data: HANA Moves into Mobile, Cloud and More
SAP is stepping its big data play up a notch. The business software maker’s vision is based largely on the HANA in-memory analytics platform which gained a surprising amount of support in the past…
Hadoop Open-Source Community Disrupting The Rapidly Growing Big-Data Market
By John Furrier
The HBase conference (HbaseCon.com)in San Francisco was a gathering of the who’s who of open-source technical developers for the most advanced Big Data projects. These elite developers, architects, and open source contributors shared their…
Flame Blame? – Israel, US Shift Rumors of Responsibility
The recently discovered Flame cyberattack, believed to be directed primarily against Iran and collect data, has attracted significant international attention in recent days. A number of reports had pointed the responsibility for the attack…
This Week in the Cloud: from Salesforce’s Big Buy to Xbox Video Streaming
This week’s major highlights spanned across quite a few areas, ranging from the M&A scene to the personal cloud and the latest move in Xbox’s campaign to take over the living room. Yesterday we…
Facebook Timeline Remover Scam Apps Promise to Remove Timeline
By Saroj Kar
Facebook users are being bombarded with timeline removal apps request that promise to remove Facebook Timeline. The scam seems to be spreading via various sources including rogue browser extensions and rogue Facebook applications. The…
Facebook Highlight an Attempt to Boost Monetization
Facebook dominated the headlines with its $16 billion IPO and $104 billion valuation. But the company’s shares quickly declined from the $38 initial asking price to just over $28 today; now the social media…
Unstructured Data In the Cloud
As cloud-based data strategies continue to take hold as a strategic undertaking in enterprises across the spectrum, the transformation is taking place because of a number of advantages are becoming clearer as technologies evolve…