Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform. To simplify the roll out of big data applications, ...
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Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
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U.S. corporations tend to be far less concerned with the brand of mobile devices in the workplace and more worried about which employees have access to company data, according to a Dell survey of 1,500 senior IT managers in 10 countries. ...
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Fiberlink, the leader in application management and software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for secure mobile device management, recently held a free live webinar titled "Managing Mobile Chaos." Currently available on demand, this webinar ...
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To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even ...
Paul Maritz is stepping down as CEO of VMware to take the job of chief strategist at parent company EMC. The chief executive's role will be filled by Pat Gelsinger, currently chief operating officer (COO) at EMC. Paul Maritz ...
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Quanta QCT on Thursday announced a new low-power cloud server based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor code-named Centerton, and said the server would ship by the end of this year. The Stratos S900-X31A is the second major server to be ...
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Paul Maritz will step down from his role as CEO of VMware, to be replaced by EMC Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger, EMC confirmed on Tuesday. Maritz will instead become chief strategist of EMC, which is the majority owner of VMware. ...
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In response to a White House mandate, the agencies and departments of the federal government are gradually moving their IT operations to the cloud in a shift that could save billions of dollars, while also raising serious security concerns. ...
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Name: Jon Brilliant Age: 48 Time with company: board of directors when founded, became CFO 3 years ago. Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and a graduate degree, Juris Doctor, from Duke ...
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Moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent an increasing amount of irony to the company’s name, following the departure of founder Mike Lynch and the expansion of its key tools to become add-ons across a much broader range of ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced what it says is the ...
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UK datacentres are unprepared for the massive changes that big data will bring to the enterprises and their IT facilities, a study of 125 senior IT decision makers by Research Now has revealed. While IT executives are clear about the ...
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Flash-based solid-state devices(SSDs)are making headway in the datacentre,especially for read-intensive applications requiring high performance,but will continue to take second place for write-intensive applications,including many"big ...
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A majority of IT executives have said that a growing demand for increased network bandwidth is one of the most critical issues facing their datacentres, with more than half looking to deploy 100Gb ethernet by 2016 to improve input/output ...
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