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JetStream debuts with promise of painless cross-cloud workload migration
Startup JetStream Software Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with a cross-cloud data management platform that it says enables organizations to move workloads between on-premises and cloud platforms with zero downtime and near-real-time replication. The company is targeting second-tier cloud service providers and organizations that run large private clouds based on VMware Inc.’s virtualization. ...
Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud
Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning projects. Nvidia has been on a recent campaign to make its chips a standard ...
Comtrade becomes HYCU and makes migration to Nutanix platform easier
Comtrade Software Inc., which has bet its business on the Nutanix Inc. hyperconverged platform, has spun off from its corporate parent and rebranded itself with the name of its flagship data protection software. The new HYCU Inc. also announced new features that support Nutanix Acropolis File Services and enable data protection across both Nutanix and non-Nutanix ...
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Oracle’s victory over Google in Java copyright case may rewrite the rules of software
Oracle Corp.’s latest victory in its eight-year-old copyright infringement lawsuit against Google LLC could fundamentally rewrite the rules of software development if today’s ruling withstands a possible appeal by the search giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit earlier today said Google’s use of portions of Oracle’s Java development platform to create the ...
Survey finds few organizations have reached big data’s promised land
A survey of organizations using big data has found that only a tiny minority have achieved transformational business value, while most are still at the tire-kicking stage. The survey of 5,600 respondents at 429 companies also found that most organizations think they’re more accomplished at using big data than they really are. The study was fielded by ...
MariaDB hints at cloud plans with purchase of MammothDB analytics engine
MariaDB Corp. has acquired Sofia, Bulgaria-based enterprise analytics developer MammothDB EOOD for an undisclosed sum, saying the move will further the company’s push into the European market and enhance its new analytics database with advanced features and cloud delivery. The purchase is primarily aimed at burnishing MariaDB AX, an analytics and data warehousing engine that the company ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
How to solve those really hard data science problems? Throw a contest!
As the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament nears its climax over the next two weeks, data scientists around the world will be watching to see if their predictive algorithms survived the upsets that characterize the annual tourney. The winners will get bragging rights and recognition by SAP SE as part of its annual #ViztheMadness analytics ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Elephant in the room: Hortonworks CEO thinks Hadoop software will keep driving big data
Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic processing and build a business selling software that customers can get elsewhere for free. By most accounts, Hortonworks is making good progress. The company ...
AI anchors new HPE server and prescriptive maintenance service
One week after IBM Corp. previewed its currently running Think 2018 conference with a series of artificial intelligence-related announcements, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. is following with its own take on the hottest trend in information technology. The company today announced hardware, vertical-market software and training services aimed at getting customers up to speed on machine and deep learning. ...
VMware Workspace One endpoint suite boosts security for far-flung workforces
VMware Inc. today rolled out a broad set of enhancements to its Workspace One endpoint management suite that improve security for organizations with dispersed workforces and give information technology administrators greater visibility and troubleshooting power over far-flung devices. At the center of the new offerings is Workspace One Intelligence, a new cloud-based service that combines aggregation ...