Big Data News & Support Resources

December 6, 2017

I recently attended the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and amid the head-spinning barrage of presentations and announcements that were made, one slide stood out for me: Why is it my favorite? Because it underscores the common theme we hear from every CIO we visit. On-premises legacy solutions have lost any remaining luster and […]

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Nexenta Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Market Growth and IP Innovation in Software-Defined Storage; SoftBank Leads the Strategic Financing Round along with a Strategic Agreement

December 4, 2017

Nexenta

Nexenta Continues to Disrupt Hardware-Only Legacy Storage Market via Complete Software- Only Enterprise Storage Solutions, Services and Support Nexenta Extends its Capabilities for Any Hybrid or Multi-Cloud Deployment, on Any Hardware Infrastructure, Supporting Any Enterprise Application via Any Edge, Private or Public Cloud Data Center [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Click to Listen”] Nexenta (@Nexenta)(link is external), the global leader […]

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VMware and AWS Expand Capabilities and Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS

December 4, 2017

VMware

VMware Cloud(TM) on AWS now available in U.S. East region Expanded VMware Cloud on AWS capabilities, including VMware Site Recovery and VMware vMotion, help customers move, run, and protect production workloads at scale [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Click to Listen”] At AWS re:Invent 2017, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced VMware Cloud™ on AWS is expanding […]

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IoT Data: Reducing Unplanned Downtime through Predictive Analytics

November 23, 2017

HP Enterprise

IoT in ManufacturingData —one of the biggest challenges and biggest opportunities in the Internet of Things. It is also creating the most compelling business case for investing in IoT solutions. A report by ABI research says “across the enterprise sector, the business case for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is increasingly based on big data […]

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Software-Defined Cloud NAS/SAN for AWS EBS

November 22, 2017

SoftNAS

SoftNAS Cloud® Enterprise and SoftNAS Cloud® Essentials for AWS extend the native storage capabilities of AWS and feature the POSIX-compliant and required storage access protocols needed to create a virtual cloud NAS, without having to re-engineer existing customer applications. SoftNAS Cloud products allow customers to migrate existing applications and data to AWS with NFS, CIFS/SMB, […]

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Microsoft Video: How IoT, Big Data and AI Technology Intersect for Business Results

November 22, 2017

Microsoft

See IoT in Action with Microsoft in San Francisco on 2/13/18 http://bit.ly/2AWSY5T. Dr. Rashmi Misra, GM, IoT and AI Solutions at Microsoft, explains the areas of growth for data and cognitive services as technologies intersect in the internet of things (IoT). As terabytes worth of data can now be processed through the emergence of artificial […]

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Cisco: Once again, Proud to Be First – IoT Performance

November 21, 2017

Cisco

Over the past three decades, industry standard bodies like the TPC and SPEC have developed several standards for performance benchmarking. These standards have been a significant driving force behind the development of faster, less expensive, and more energy efficient systems. The two most influential database benchmark standards have been: TPC-C, the industry standard for benchmarking transaction processing systems, and TPC-D and its […]

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#disruptEUC: IGEL is Driving Innovation in End User Compute. Making VDI and Thin Clients Relevant and Sexy Again!

November 21, 2017

IGEL Technology

About a year and a half ago I joined IGEL, a company few people had ever heard of… and if you had heard of IGEL you were probably German and knew them as a niche thin client hardware manufacturer. Thin Clients? Why should you care? Boring dumb terminals, commodity hardware right? VDI a slow growth […]

The Data Lake Awakening

November 16, 2017

Chaos Sumo

There is a great disturbance in the Force. I have felt it…Ok, this is a bit tongue and cheek, but during the Big Data Strata Conference in New York this past September, the energy around data lakes was electric. The news coming from the event was the strongest indicator that the future is NOW. Though […]

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)

November 16, 2017

Microsoft

Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) are generally available for customers worldwide, effective today. Azure RIs enable you to reserve Virtual Machines on a one- or three-year term, and provide up to 72% cost savings versus pay-as-you-go prices. Azure RIs give you price predictability and help improve your budgeting and forecasting. Azure RIs also provide unprecedented […]

Red Hat Helps Power Big Data’s Future with SAP Vora on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

November 16, 2017

Red Hat

Combination of enterprise-grade Kubernetes and in-memory data analysis engine helps to build integrated big data landscapes Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the SAP® Vora™ solution on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, an integrated solution that pairs enterprise-grade Kubernetes with actionable big data […]

VMware Video: Running Spark on VMware Cloud on AWS

November 10, 2017

VMware

This demo shows the Standalone Spark workload that we saw previously running on on-premises vSphere – now running on a set of 12 Worker virtual machines and 1 spark driver virtual machine on the VMware Cloud on AWS platform. A Spark cluster is started up on those 13 virtual machines from the command line and […]

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Forrester: AI Hard Fact – Treat It Like A Plug-And-Play Panacea and Fail

November 10, 2017

Forrester Research

Look right, look left, you’ll see a fellow CIO contemplating their AI move. Failing to act is not an option in most organizations. However, as enterprises are kicking off their AI pilots or seeing early results, the honeymoon is over as enterprises that naively celebrated the cure-all promises of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is over. Enterprises needed better data foundations. They underestimated the level of business expertise […]

Automating Big Data Technologies for Faster Time-to-Value – AWS Video

November 9, 2017

Amazon Web Services

Big data technologies can be extremely complex and require manual operation. If you can intelligently automate your Big Data operations then you can lower your costs, make your team more productive, scale more efficiently, and lower the risk of failure. Demandbase, creator of a targeting and personalization platform for business-to-business (B2B) companies, uses Qubole and […]