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What you missed in Cloud: Everything-as-a-service
The on-demand model of the cloud is spreading to the farthest corners of the industry with increasing demand from organizations for greater flexibility in how they consume technology. The trend passed another milestone in its expansion last week as one of the top hosting providers in the Hadoop ecosystem revealed a pay-as-you-go implementation of Spark. The ...
EMC exec: Real goal of analytics too often lost in technology weeds | #BigDataSV
It seems that hardly a week goes by without the introduction of some new way to wrangle insights from data. That breakneck evolution has contributed much of the momentum behind the meteoric rise of analytics in the enterprise, but the constant technological change can distract from ultimate goal of analytics, which is to make more ...
IBM re-asserts storage leadership with new all-flash arrays
IBM is back in the enterprise limelight with two new all-flash arrays that incorporate key innovations from its patent trove to up the ante against the competition. The systems are the first fruit of the $1 billion investment in software-defined storage that it revealed a few days prior. The company’s new hardware-agnostic management platform featured prominently ...
Report: Nutanix working on a standalone implementation of its Server SAN software
The next major launch from trendy infrastructure startup Nutanix Inc. won’t involve any hardware, according to a new report on The Register. Instead, the appliance maker is switching gears and preparing to launch a standalone version of its management stack that can run on third party equipment. The move continues the trend of administrative functions ...
HP steps up software-defined networking push with white-box switches
Hewlett-Packard is expanding its presence in the commodity switch business in an effort to address the burgeoning demand for bare-metal networking equipment. The move extends the strategy HP is pursuing in the server market to target web-scale customers such as service providers. The mastermind behind the model, Alain Andreoli (above), detailed to SiliconANGLE in an exclusive interview ...
Tamr wants to disrupt the data lake with its upgraded information unification platform
A promising startup called Tamr, Inc. managed to stand out from the crowd at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 with a new release of its data unification platform that offers to deliver on the elusive promise of integrated analytics, a term that’s frequently used but rarely delivered upon. There are countless data processing solutions possessing ...
The inside track on FalconStor’s software-defined storage pivot | #CubeConversations
FalconStor Software Inc. is back. That’s the message chief exec Gary Quinn (right) and marketing VP Tim Sheets conveyed in their interview with theCUBE on the occasion of the the debut of the company’s software-defined storage platform this morning. FreeStor is the culmination of a journey that started over a decade ago in the era of tape ...
Forget your passwords! Microsoft shifts focus to biometric authentication in Windows 10
Organizations have another reason to start making plans to adopt Windows 10 now that Microsoft has revealed that the next release of its operating system will support biometric authentication, enabling security administrators to ditch passwords in favor of stronger security measures. The feature implements the second version of the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) specification from ...
When size does matter: IBM bets big on software-defined storage
IBM has a new vision for software-defined storage that could turn the tide against its rivals in the competition to power the data centers of tomorrow. At the focal point of the strategy is a platform unveiled today that draws on the enterprise technology stalwart’s single biggest strength: its size. Spectrum Accelerate is a standalone implementation ...
SUSE launches software-defined storage platform
After more than a quarter of testing, SUSE Linux GmbH is finally releasing its software-defined storage platform into general availability. The launch fills in another important part of the company’s cloud stack amid increasing competition from rivals. The biggest threat to SUSE’s ambitions for the software-defined data center is Red Hat Inc., its old arch-nemesis ...