Formula 1 racing changes pose big data challenge
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Even F1 racing is trying to save energy and as it navigates changes from V-8 to V-6 cars, there are lots of big data problems to be solved. Read more »
6 things every CIO should know (or at least think about)
CIOs may be the kings of the IT heap within their companies but they are also under siege — new technologies from outside, recalcitrant CEOs, budget-stealing CMOS. Some things to ponder. Read more »
PernixData nets $20M to virtualize your server-side flash
The self-proclaimed VMware of server-side flash now has more money to build out enterprise-class sales and marketing staff and to add features to its software. Read more »
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How data warehousing is now a cost-effective solution for businesses
Data-warehouse providers are quickly adding Hadoop distributions, or even their own versions of Hadoop, into their architecture, adding further cost advantages to collections of extremely large data sets. Finding the talent to manage this newly converged environment will not be easy, but it presents tremendous opportunity for companies willing to take some risk. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
How EMC’s CTO is trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal orbiting the same sun
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EMC CTO John Roese has a tough, but important job trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal all moving in the same direction. While the three are separate companies, their fates are also very much aligned. Read more »
EMC plots software-defined data center journey from ViPR storage virtualization base
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EMC says ViPR will abstract out a company’s storage and automate how it gets divvied up by the workload. The company will roll out its software-defined data center plan this week. Read more »
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How to manage big data without breaking the bank
In the tsunami of experimentation, investment, and deployment of systems that analyze big data, vendors have seemingly been trying approaches at two extremes—either embracing the Hadoop ecosystem or building increasingly sophisticated query capabilities into database management system (DBMS) engines.For some use cases, there appears to be room for a third approach that lies between the extremes and borrows from the best of each. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Can Pivotal really offer cloud nirvana?
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Will Pivotal’s corporate overlords let Paul Maritz do as he pledges — offer a cloud-agnostic operating layer? I’m sure business customers hope so. Read more »
GE to pour $105M into EMC and VMware’s Pivotal Initiative
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GE said it will use its 10 percent stake in the nascent Pivotal Initiative to bolster its industrial internet push Read more »
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Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
EMC’s Paul Maritz: it takes leadership to move companies toward a data-driven future
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What does it take to move companies toward a data-driven future? EMC chief strategist and Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz spoke at Strucuture:Data in New York on how to move toward the future through human leadership and strategy. Read more »
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Sector RoadMap: SQL-on-Hadoop platforms in 2013
Today’s most successful companies are the ones with the ability to capture and analyze all data available to them. Enter SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, which increase the accessibility of Hadoop and allow organizations to reuse their investment learning in SQL. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Structure:Data 2013 live coverage
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You can find all of our coverage of Structure:Data 2013 here, along with links to more info on the conference and a livestream of the action. Read more »
EMC to bring out enterprise version of its Syncplicity file-sharing service
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Following EMC’s acquisition of Syncplicity file syncing Software as a Service, the storage giant is coming out with storage for use across multiple data centers, for thousands of users. Read more »
The world is ready for the consumer-grade enterprise
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Former VMware CEO and current Pivotal Initiative leader Paul Maritz shares his thoughts on how the future of enterprise IT must mirror the practices of consumer web companies. Read more »
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How the mega data center is changing the hardware and data center markets
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Mega data centers’ innovations in serviceability, automatically detecting and recovering from failures, procurement practices, and so forth will become standard practice in all modern data centers. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
EMC is just not that into SoftLayer, but IBM may be
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EMC is not in the race for SoftLayer, the cloud services provider, but IBM is on the prowl for cloud expertise and has looked at both SoftLayer and Rackspace, sources say. Read more »
Death of an IT salesman
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Enterprises have already started to change the way they buy IT but we’re still in the midst of a massive multi-year transformation. And that should worry vendors like EMC, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and VMware. Read more »
Report: IBM and EMC eye SoftLayer
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Softlayer may be in the cross hairs of not one but two legacy IT giants, according to a Reuters report. Even the idea that EMC or IBM would consider a buyout is interesting. Read more »
The Pivotal Initiative, in case you were wondering, is now official
Pivotal Initiative is finally here. EMC Chairman Joe Tucci kicks off his latest venture in New York with help from Pat Gelsinger, Paul Maritz and others. Read more »
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How to use big data to make better business decisions
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made in response to simplistic data reporting; they are made in response to considered and ongoing data analysis. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
EMC further embraces in-server flash storage with more memory cards
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Following Fusion-io’s success in selling flash memory cards, EMC is coming out with more flash memory PCIe cards, following Violin Memory releasing its own versions earlier this week. Read more »
Meet Kaggle Connect: matchmaker for data scientists and companies that need them
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Putting the right brains on the right problems is the goal of Kaggle Connect. Read more »
Hacking Sand Hill: How the cloud will help security startups lure VCs
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Online security is big business, and is only increasing as private data moves to the public cloud. So while it’s a tough market to break into, there are also great opportunities for focused startups. Read more »
EMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”
EMC Greenplum rolled out a new Hadoop distribution that fuses the popular big data platform with its flagship MPP database technology. Co-founder Scott Yara thinks the company’s huge investment puts it in the catbird seat among Hadoop vendors. Read more »
VMware’s Tod Nielsen follows Maritz to Pivotal Initiative
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Tod Nielsen, who helped lead VMware’s applications platform group, has moved over to the Pivotal Initiative spin-off where he’ll report to old pal Paul Maritz. Read more »
VMware shares get slammed
VMware shares took it on the chin Tuesday, a day after the company talked down its projected earnings for the next quarter. Read more »
VMware sharpens its focus — and its knife
Hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, and end-user computing are all in. Other VMware efforts will be out in the upcoming year as the company seeks to regain focus. Read more »
This week in cloud: VMware-EMC shuffle and Cisco-Netapp tighten ties
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Lots of personnel moves at and between VMware and parent company EMC (and spinoff Pivotal Initiative as it gets ready to launch.) Also: Cisco and NetApp launch more FlexPods. Read more »
Lucovsky moves from Cloud Foundry back to VMware in Pivotal shift
Star engineer Mark Lucovsky appears to be back at VMware, after handing the Cloud Foundry PaaS over to VMware/EMC’s Pivotal Initiative spin-off. Read more »
VMware pours $30M more into Puppet Labs
Puppet and VMware will work on joint solutions to ease the configuration and management of IT environments, says Puppet Labs CEO Luke Kanies. Read more »
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The fourth quarter of 2012 in cloud
The last quarter of 2012 saw the rise of cloud-based databases, the cloud awakening of software giants such as HP, and many cloud outages that have left question marks. Enterprises found more IT dollars, and they will focus on the cloud for much of that spending. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Big data 2013: key trends and companies to watch
Besides the skyrocketing growth of data itself, there are several key technology trends we will be watching in 2013. That list includes a renaissance in the database market, next-generation SaaS-based BI and visualization tools, and data warehousing as a service. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
PaaS not cheap enough? AppFog has a deal for you!
How low can PaaS pricing go? AppFog says it’s cutting the price of the paid version of its polyglot, multi-cloud PaaS in half for developers. That’s great for developers, but will it boost corporate adoption? Read more »
What next for Cloud Foundry?
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VMware aggressively recruited partners to base platforms on its open-source Cloud Foundry stack. Now as it preps the Pivotal Initiative spinoff, those partners worry about more intense competition with the Cloud Foundry mothership. Read more »
EMC follows VMware, rest of world into OpenStack
With the storage leader now formally aboard the OpenStack Foundation, it’s almost easier to count the IT vendors who have not climbed aboard this open-source cloud bandwagon. Read more »
This week in cloud: Rackspace whoops, sizing Amazon cloud and more
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Cloud news you can use this week: rough times for Rackspace; a look at Amazon Web Services revenue; EMC-VMware come clean (kind of) about spinoff; and Heroku spiffs up its add-on marketplace for developers. Read more »
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IT spending update, fourth quarter 2012
Many factors have driven the recent high demand for IT products and services. However, relentless global economic weakness and uncertainty have resulted in a deterioration of worldwide IT spending through the third quarter and will continue to be an anchor in the fourth quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
And whomp, here it is: The Pivotal Initiative brought to you by VMware and EMC
With its newly minted Pivotal Initiative, EMC and VMware are cordoning off key technologies to attack the big data and cloud application spaces. Paul Maritz, EMC’s chief strategy officer and former VMware CEO, will spearhead this effort. Read more »
Why VMware is spinning off Cloud Foundry and SpringSource
The decision by VMware and parent EMC to spin out VMware’s “tier 2″ technologies into a separate subsidiary shows that they’re under pressure to compete with massive cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft in the enterprise. Read more »
