Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive -- and fast growing -- data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week rolled out a beta version of an ...
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Big data has the potential to transform how travel companies - including airlines, airports, rail operators and hotels - operate, and make the experience better for both businesses and customers alike. That's according to a global study ...
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MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify for VMware's vSphere platform the ...
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, status updates and "likes" to its end users, but that's far from the case. The social ...
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Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors. Dubbed Vibe, the "VDM ...
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Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers. SAP will introduce a ...
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Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers. SAP will introduce a ...
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A strong stock market could open the floodgates for more tech IPOs in the wake of Friday's solid debut of Marketo and Tableau, but not all segments of IT may be able to ride the wave. Marketo, which sells cloud-based marketing software, ...
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in ...
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EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features. Last year's Version 7.0 of the scale-out NAS ...
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EMC today announced that it is preparing the next version of its EMC Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system. Building on the late-2012 launch of OneFS 7.0, the next version of Isilon's operating system will extend customers' ability ...
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Many tech companies have called for Congress to ease restrictions on high-skill immigration because they can't find qualified tech workers to fill open positions. Yet, many veteran IT tech workers say they can't find jobs. More than a ...
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Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule. The controller technology obtained from the acquisition of Contrail Systems?is now called JunosV Contrail. ...
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