CES Update: More Tablets and TVs to Watch Out For [Video]
We’ve been CES crazed for more than a week now but can you really blame us? Waiting for brands to unveil drool-inducing products is like a kid waiting to open his presents on Christmas…
Splunk Targets Non-IT Users with Latest Version
Splunk released the latest version of Splunk Enterprise today, the company’s machine data search and indexing tool. Version 4.3 addresses a couple of trends in the business intelligence industry, a decision that evidently paid…
DataStax Reviews Company, Cassandra Through 2011
DataStax, a commercial distributor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is reflecting on the past year. The company reached several milestones in the past year, as did Cassandra, and there are high hopes surrounding…
Oracle Releases Big Data Appliance with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop
By Klint Finley
Today Oracle is releasing Oracle Big Data Appliance, which was first announced Oracle Open World last fall. Also, today Oracle announced that the appliance will include the Cloudera Distribution Including Hadoop and Cloudera Manager.…
Oracle and Cloudera Forge Hadoop/Big Data Partnership
Hadoop sometimes results in strange bedfellows. Oracle announced today that it has forged a partnership with commercial Hadoop distribution vendor Cloudera. Cloudera’s Apache compatible Hadoop distribution, CDH, and its proprietary Hadoop management software, Cloudera…
Gadgets To Boost Your Juice: Battery Power Ups
Situation 1: You’re out to meet your friends at this newly opened restaurant. You’re already on your way when you realized you don’t know where it is, so you pull out your phone to…
Ballmer Says in Final Keynote That Windows 8 Will Launch in Late February
Steve Ballmer just finished his last keynote by announcing that Windows 8 will launch in late February with the full Metro user interface and integrations with Kinect, available February 1. “Metro will drive the new…
Analyst: Linux Will Eat Oracle Solaris’ Lunch in 2012
By Klint Finley
According to a survey of over 165 server professionals conducted by the 451 Group, 67% are planning to spend more on databases and data warehousing with Red Hat and 55% are planning to spend…
VMware’s Serious about Mobile Enterprise, Unveils Horizon Mobile
VMware is beefing up its virtualization initiatives, a growing number of which include offerings that cater to the end user within the enterprise, rather than organization-wide virtualization solutions alone. Mobile has been one of…
Marvell Goes Big at CES: SATA Controller, Charitable Mobility
Hardware maker Marvell is one of the companies that have already made several announcements at CES 2012. One of the new products is the Marvell 88SE9230 6Gb/s SATA controller. The product is designed to…