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HP storage guru reveals how he shored up the 3PAR flash lineup | #vmworld
When Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled its first purpose-built flash array last June, its pitch consisted of a mature management stack and not much else. Just over a year later, the company boasts one of the most well-rounded offerings in the high-end of the market that is at least as competitive on the hardware side as it ...
Teradata buys out the hottest Hadoop consultancy in Silicon Valley
Teradata Corp. hopes to close the loop on its Hadoop strategy with the acquisition of Think Big Analytics Inc., a professional services startup based in Mountain View that helps traditional organizations set up the necessary infrastructure to exploit their vast piles of untapped information. No financial details of were disclosed for the deal, the data ...
Google exec says VMware alliance is all part of search giant’s enterprise play | #vmworld
Lost in hype surrounding VMware Inc.’s recent move to embrace Docker, which is considered one of the single greatest threats to its proprietary brand of server virtualization, was the equally significant announcement of a partnership with Google to provide support for the search giant’s Kubernetes initiative. The open-source project relies on the Docker container engine ...
VMware’s plan: commoditize IT and kill Docker – but embrace it first | #vmworld
VMware Inc.’s recent foray into the converged infrastructure market is not merely an attempt to gain more control of its ecosystem but part of a broader push to help CIOs retool their operations, according to Chris Wolf, the hypervisor maker’s CTO for the Americas. Speaking on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld conference in San ...
What you missed in Big Data: smaller means nimbler
The startup ecosystem continued to set the pace for the analytics industry last week with another series of major milestones that spell new competition for the incumbents reigning over the market today. GlassBeam Inc. fired the opening shot with the closing of $2.2 million in Series B funding from VKRM Group and new investor SRI ...
For Docker CEO Golub, it’s about being everywhere (even Windows) | #vmworld
Few enterprise software startups are growing as fast as Docker Inc., and probably none have managed to garner so much buzz in such a short time, certainly not anytime since the dot-com era. There’s a good reason for that, according to Docker CEO Ben Golub (right). Speaking on theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld conference ...
Basho boss says workloads must drive infrastructure decisions | #vmworld
For the first time in recent memory, a major industry conference didn’t place Big Data at the center of attention, and the CEO of one of the hottest startups in that space says that’s a good thing. In his debut appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld 2014 summit, Basho Technologies Inc. head ...
Tegile says hybrid array erases price/performance tradeoff | #vmworld
In industry marketing circles, the term “hybrid array” is typically used to describe a data storage appliance that combines fast and expensive solid-state-memory with cheaper but slower mechanical disk. Tegile Systems Inc., which one of the faster-growing names in the ring, is venturing off the beaten track with a fresh product approach that it says ...
Amazon’s enterprise cloud locker comes online
Amazon.com Inc. officially entered the enterprise file syncronization race on Wednesday with the launch of Zocalo, the homegrown cloud locker it unveiled in July as a response to fast-growing corporate adoption of existing solutions such rival Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive. Named after the Spanish word for town square, the platform is exiting its nearly two-month private ...
SAP presses deeper into China with new cloud data center
Business intelligence stalwart SAP SE is pushing deeper into the lucrative Chinese market for enterprise software with a new data center that will deliver cloud services to local firms. The Shanghai facility marks one of the first major milestones on the growth path of China Datacom Corp., the joint venture that the German software titan ...