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Weekly Tablet Business App Roundup: It’s All about the Notes
This week’s tablet business app list features two applications that fall under one of the most fleshed out categories in the genre: note taking apps, that while offering different functionality still build upon the basic concept of capturing ideas on the go. The main difference is that some apps do it better than others and ...
This Week in Big Data: New Alliances, HBaseCon and ClickFox
This past week in big data features several updates, in addition to the regular stream of industry commentary SiliconANGLE is producing. The news includes the convergence of several players in this market, a new event that further strengthens Cloudera’s position in the community, and a notable case study from ClickFox. First up is freshly announced ...
This Week in the Cloud: Analytics, VDI and PaaS
This week in the cloud has been – once again – a very interesting one overall. The first update comes from Scala, which is introducing the cloud and analytics to a market that is making good time catching up with IT: the digital signage industry. The firm introduced a new hosted/on-premise app this week that ...
OCZ Announces Drovo Integration in Storage Update
The OCZ Technology Group said this week that its OCZ Talos SAS solid-state drives have been certified to run inside Drobo’s B1200i iSCSI SAN family of products, which are resold by the latter’s partners. OCZ makes all the regular claims of offering energy efficiency and increased performance, in addition to availability. “Drobo is a leader ...
MapR and Informatica Integrate Offerings
Commercial Hadoop distributor MapR and BI software maker Informatica announced a big data partnership through which they have integrated their offerings to provide a few additional advantages to customers. MapR’s Hadoop distro is integrated with the Informatica Platform, which translates into several things. Data being processed by MapR automatically reaches Informatica PowerCenter and PowerExchange, while ...
Nimble Gets Tighter with the VMware Family
Nimble Storage announced that new VDI reference architectures powered by the company’s CS-Series arrays have been made available via the VMware View Rapid Desktop Program to customers of the virtualization giant. “The program enables customers to quickly deploy comprehensive VDI systems, building on proven and tested reference architectures that map to real-world requirements for successful VDI ...
Cloudera’s Latest Community Contribution: HBaseCon
Big data firm Cloudera announced that it will be host the first HBaseCon in San Francisco on May 22, 2012. The 2012 gathering will focus on (as the name implies) HBase, the distributed database that runs on top of Hadoop, and will feature various educational keynotes and workshops revolving around the software. “It’s going to ...
Mobile Commerce Bolstered by NFC, Potential PayPal Successor
Mobile commerce is a trend that is naturally growing as more smartphones enter the market, and users want to do more with their handsets. Being able to carry out transactions on retail sites via digital currency has been a vision that a relatively larger number of companies have embraced, and near-field communications tech is the ...
QLogic Lands Major Win in Storage with HP and Dell Deals
QLogic announced some very good news this week – it has been selected to provide networking gear that will ship with two of the most buzzed-about products in the storage industry today. The first release covers the ProLiant Generation 8; what has been named by a senior Wikibon analyst as the best server HP launched ...
The New iPad vs the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The new iPad, the third generation of Apple’s tablet, has yet to have be given a more appropriate name but has already managed to send ripples across the blogosphere within less than 24 hours of launch. It’s a less than stellar launch compared to some of the other product reveals we’ve seen from Apple’s annual ...