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Can HP IDOL jumpstart the Big Data app economy? | #HPBigData2014
Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking to take the driver’s seat in bringing about the era of pre-packaged analytic applications with the IDOL platform from Autonomy, and according to the head of product marketing for the subsidiary, it already has results to show for the effort. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded HP Vertica Big ...
Cloud and analytics ratcheting each other up the enterprise | #HPBigData2014
The democratization of compute and storage catalyzed by the rise of the public cloud is driving more and more organizations for whom large-scale analytics were previously cost-prohibitive to tap into their internal, fast-growing information troves. That increasing data use in turn is fueling the consumption of yet more external infrastructure resources, thereby creating a sort ...
Zetta.net extends ultra-fast data protection to server images
While others in the industry are trying to tackle the growing challenges of backup with on-premise arrays that reach into the public cloud, Zetta.net, Inc. is sticking to the tried-and-true formula of providing data protection directly as a service. The Mountain View, CA-based startup is now looking to press further ahead with the latest release ...
How one company merges cloud economics with enterprise functionality | #CubeConversations
It may not be the biggest name in the converged infrastructure space yet, and it may not be the newest either, but SimpliVity Inc. is growing so fast that the market has no choice but to pay attention. The Massachusetts-based maker of data center modules has tripled its headcount to 300 since last August and ...
What you missed in Cloud: removing barriers to hybrid computing
The hybrid cloud has never been higher on the industry’s to-do list. Vendors both large and small are lining up to tackle the many challenges of linking on- and off-premise environments, chief among them interoperability, which drew even more attention than usual last week after Apprenda Inc. joined the race for open standards. The fast-growing ...
What you missed in Big Data: apps and chips
Applications took the center stage in the analytics world this past week, with Splunk Inc. introducing a new add-on for its hugely popular log management platform that extends support beyond just data from infrastructure components to the traffic flowing among the services running on top. The software represents the first product to implement the technology ...
SUSE catching up to Red Hat on OpenStack Icehouse?
SUSE Inc., the long-time second-fiddle of the enterprise Linux world, has finally started shipping the latest Icehouse release of OpenStack with its private cloud platform. The launch comes more than a month after arch-nemesis Red Hat Inc. had completed baking the new version into its competing infrastructure-as-a-service stack, time that the German distribution spent on ...
NEA and co bet $10M on DevOps startup that wants to ship the ultimate cloud app management tool
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is now officially on a cloud investment streak. Last week, the venture capital powerhouse chucked in for a $25 million funding round for global data governance provider Bitglass Inc., and on Thursday, it led a $10 million round into another ambitious startup called Luminal Inc. that hopes to redefine how cloud applications ...
Tintri intensifies campaign against storage incumbents
Tintri Inc., one of the faster growing names in the new generation of storage vendors to have emerged from the solid-state memory craze, is extending its reach beyond the customer base of VMware Inc. with a major software upgrade that takes aim at the enterprise capabilities helping to keep the incumbents in place. Led by ...
More validation for hybrid cloud storage as Nasuni bags $10 million
History repeats itself rather often in the world of enterprise storage. Every few years, there appears a wave of startups heralding some exciting new trend that poses a threat to the old guard, and each time, the frontrunners find themselves acquired by the incumbent vendors they were planning to disrupt. The cycle has preserved the ...