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HP Targets Big Data With Purpose-Built ProLiant Server
HP is firmly targeting the big data trend with the unveiling of a purpose-built ProLiant SL 4500 server
DataDirect Adds Intelligence To Hybrid Flash Storage
DataDirect's SFA7700 supports both NAND flash and spinning disk storage volumes, with the ability to 'anticipate and optimise' workloads
iWave Automates Storage Provisioning
iWave's Storage Automator allows line-of-business users to provision, extend and reclaim enterprise storage without involving the IT department
Kim Dotcom Loses Me.ga Domain Name, Blames US
Omega hackers currently controlling the address are threatening to sell it
Terracotta Launches ISV Partner Programme For Big Data Memory
Terracotta is to work with software vendors on offering real-time big data access to their customers using the BigMemory Go big-data memory product
Why Coca-Cola Should Have Admitted It Was Hacked
Coca-Cola was reportedly hacked in 2009 and is still keeping quiet about it. Such reticence hurts all of us, says Tom Brewster
Kim Dotcom Wants Free Fibre For New Zealand
Stop worrying about building roads and lay fibre instead, says Meagaupload founder
Samsung Touts SSD Potential For Green Data Centers
Samsung continues to argue that solid state drives (SSDs) can make for more energy efficient data centres
Google Drive Files Open To Share On Google+
Files on Google Drive can now be shared directly with the world via the Google+ social networking platform
Kim Dotcom Announces Mega-Replacement For Megaupload
Megaupload is reborn as Mega, will use encryption and won’t be responsible for hosted files
Splunk Gets High Availability Update
Splunk wants a bigger piece of the Big Data pie
RSA Builds On Big Data Security Strategy With Silver Tail Acquisition
Acquisition builds on Art Coviello's promise to deliver Big Data-led strategy
Juniper, EMC Work Together On Storage Arrays
Juniper's QFabric data centre networking portfolio can now work with EMC's VMAX and VNX storage arrays, following months of testing
EMC Boss Tucci Dismisses Juniper Acquisition Talk
Joe Tucci has reiterated EMC's relationship to Cisco and denied acquisition plans for Juniper Networks
IT Life: The Joy Of Log Management
Forty years at the cutting edge of log management, has left Assuria's Nick Connor with an abiding love of the field
HP Will Play Violin To Its Storage Customers
HP willl lead on 3Par for storage deals, but you can bet Violin will have a place in the orchestration, says Chris Preimesberger
Microsoft Finally Brings Hadoop Big Data To Windows Azure
Redmond and Hortonworks are bringing big data to Windows users, with previews of Hadoop solutions for Windows Server and Windows Azure
EMC Profit Falls As Storage Giant Cuts Forecast
EMC has produced a strong set of financial results despite customer worries over economic growth
Project Impala Gives Cloudera’s Hadoop A Real Time Boost
Hadoop goes beyond batch to real time with Impala
Gartner: Big Data To Create 4.4 Million Jobs
Gartner has predicted a 3.8 percent increase in global IT spending next year, with one of the main beneficiaries being big data systems
What Happens If We Can’t Get Big Data Skills?
Big Data may be risky, but it's cheap enough to learn on the job, says Peter Judge
Companies Value Big Data But Are Still Hesitating, Says IBM
Lack of understanding may be holding up Big Data, says a study from IBM and Oxford University
Doug Cutting: Big Data Is No Bubble
Even the hype can't spoil the real future of Big Data, says Hadoop creator Doug Cutting
IT Life: Complexities Are Fascinating
TechWeekEurope chats to Pravin Paratey, CTO at Affectv, about the appeal of complex problems, wearable computing and his days as a codebreaker for the Indian navy
IP Expo: Scale Computing Introduces HC3 “Data Centre In A Box”
Virtualisation package developed specifically for SMBs arrives in the UK
IBM PureSystems – A Bit Of Cloud For Mainframes?
IBM PureSystems are a quiet revolution, says IBM's Tikiri Wanduragala
HP Offers Outsourced Analytics Services
HP is now offering business process outsourcing (BPO) big data analytics services via its enterprise services division
SGI, MarkLogic Bring Plug-And-Play To Big Data
SGI and MarkLogic have delivered a preconfigured, open-standards big data storage analytics package designed for large-dataset analysis challenges
Startup Targets Predictive Analytics
Quant5 has teamed up with Booz Allen Hamilton to target big data in the enterprise with predictive analytics