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SK Telecom’s new mobile cloud accelerator
As sales of smartphones and tablets continue to outpace PC shipments, demand for consistent experiences across devices is accelerating the adoption of cloud services in both the enterprise and the consumer market. The blurring line between the two segments underscores a fundamental shift in user expectations that SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless operator and ...
DataStax adds in-memory option to Cassandra database
DataStax is continuing its campaign against Oracle with DataStax Enterprise 4.0, a new version of its flagship Cassandra distro that presents a potentially more affordable alternative to the database giant’s in-memory option. Like Larry Ellison, the NoSQL startup is touting a 100-fold increase in performance. Besides being fast, the in-memory option introduced with DataStax Enterprise ...
VMware expands market reach in SDDC push
VMware is pushing beyond familiar virtualization ground in a bid to gain a head start in the software-defined data center, an emerging paradigm that requires a fundamental re-imagining of IT from the underlying infrastructure all the way up to the services that run on top and the growing amounts of corporate data that live in ...
Broad support for Pivotal spin off : Cloud Foundry goes to independent foundation
Pivotal, the buzzed-about cloud analytics venture that spun out of EMC and VMware early last year, is establishing a formal open governance model for Cloud Foundry to give the community a bigger voice in the development of the platform. The reins will be handed over to an independent foundation that is set to begin operations ...
The state of Big Data : Trends in the trenches | #BigDataSV
These past couple of weeks have been busy for theCUBE, with a continuous stream of new and repeat guests making appearances during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV event at the Hilton Santa Clara and an equally packed agenda over at the O’Reilly Strata Conference across the street. Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s ...
IBM moves up the cloud stack with Cloudant buy
Broadening its definition of the cloud, IBM is moving beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as part of an ambitious push to capture a larger slice of the burgeoning enterprise cloud market. But unlike the retail giant, Big Blue has decided to take the inorganic route and buy out firms with established offerings, a strategy that allowed it ...
MapR continues on aggressive expansion path with new Asia Pacific office
MapR last week expanded its presence in the fast-growing Asia Pacific region with the opening of an office in Seoul meant to serve as a platform for addressing the accelerating adoption of Big Data among South Korea’s largest companies. The move comes five months after the Hadoop distributor arrived in Japan, and marks the latest ...
FalconStor bounces back from 15 quarters of loss with sweeping product improvements
A few days after reporting its first profitable quarter in four years, FalconStor has announced three major product updates that bring the software-defined data center yet another small step closer to reality. Most notable is the latest version of the company’s aptly-named Optimized Backup and Deduplication Solution, which wraps a common interface around its ultra-fast ...
The predictive enterprise : Alpine Data Labs’ Bruno Aziza on effective analytics at the organizational level | #BigDataSV
The analytics vendor landscape can be roughly divided into two camps. There are those championing the traditional open-source approach to Big Data, like Hortonworks, and then there are the firms that are diverging from the beaten path and differentiating with proprietary technology. Opponents of the latter model argue that a single company cannot possibly sustain ...
Send in the clouds : Stu Miniman + the Storage Alchemist on cloud innovation in the enterprise and beyond
Cloud computing is sweeping through the enterprise, giving rise to new challenges and opportunities that CIOs simply cannot afford to ignore. Steve Kenniston, an industry veteran best known for his personal blog The Storage Alchemist, appeared in the latest episode of SiliconANGLE’s Cube Conversations series to discuss the state of the market and the technologies ...