SAP HANA (High Performance Analytics Appliance) is the powerful in-memory database technology from German enterprise software powerhouse SAP. Now HP and IBM are rolling out new solutions to help customers leverage HANA in big data analysis.
WalmartLabs makes two acquisitions to further its eCommerce strategies, Hortonworks launches its Hadoop Data Platform for Windows, and visualization company Tableau Software announces its initial public offering.
An ambitious project at the University of Chicago aims to lead the nation in biomedical computation, by making the region the largest hub in the world for genetic and medical information. At the forefront of the effort is Bionimbus, an open source cloud-based system for managing, analyzing and...
Cyan announces that GlobalConnect will deploy 400G network across Denmark using its Blue Planet software-defined networking solution. Also, news from Juniper, Yahoo Japan, EdgeCast and TeliaSonera.
Mellanox (MLNX) hopes to enhance its competiveness and its position as a leading provider of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions in a $87 million acquisition of Kotura, who develops advanced silicon photonics optical interconnect technology.
News this week comes from Hewlett Packard with a new storage system aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and government agencies, the availability of the StorageQuest Flash Storage Appliance, and NASA selecting the IceWeb IceBOX cloud collaboration platform.
NEC Corp. unveiled its SDN Application Center, which includes SDN solutions built upon customers' chief network concerns. NEC will provide APIs to help organizations proactively and automatically manage, secure and optimize their networks through their SDN solutions.
Intel (INTC) announced its microarchitecture named Silvermont, which will support low-power devices from smartphones to servers. The new design delivers a three-fold increase in performance at dramatically lower power than Atom, Intel's leading low-power processor core.
Salesforce.com (CRM) announced that it has signed an agreement with NTT Europe to establish a European data centre in the U.K. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2014.
wITH enhancements to density, scale and speed, Arista says the 7500E is its fastest and most scalable Ethernet switch ever, and will enable cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and and millions of virtual machines.
As it processes more than 528 million pieces of mail each day, the USPS has become an active participant in the big data revolution, and operates one of the most powerful non-classified supercomputing databases in the world.
Big data management company Actian announced it has acquired high-performance analytics company ParAccel. while Teradata (TDC) announced the availability of a new appliance for high-performance analytics.
SGI announced that iVEC and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
On the international front, Q9 Networks Expands in Calgary, Colt extends its network infrastructure to Cork, and Interxion London adds BT Cloud connectivity.
Cisco (CSCO) announced new MDS storage networking solutions for storage area networks, to help customers address rising cloud and big data requirements.
AMD announces new embedded System-on-Chip,Emerson Network Power (EMR) announced its latest embedded systems VPX system chassis, Wind River launches secure separation kernel.
Marking a strategic expansion of its product portfolio, Fusion-io (FIO) announced that it has acquired hybrid storage appliance company NexGen Storage for $119 milion. NexGen appliances are based on Fusion ioMemory, and targeted at small to medium size enterprises.
Headlines from the storage industry include SGI unveils InfiniteStorage Gateway; Violin Flash Memory Arrays are now certified with SAP Sybase; and LSI Flash accelerates IBM Servers.
As the Portland OpenStack Summit draws to a close, Hortonworks, VMware, and NetApp all had announcements. Among the focus areas include support for Apache Hadoop and a potential file-sharing service.
Equinix (EQIX) and video advertising platform company Brightroll announced they are bringing to market an ultra-low-latency video advertising real-time bidding (RTB) solution. Plus customer wins from Interxion (INXN), Latisys and Phoenix NAP.
Pivot Data Centres announced the construction of an 80,000 square feet data center in the greater Calgary area. When complete later this year the expansion will have 450 racks, with capacity for over 1,000 total.
At the OpenStack Summit this week in Portland, Midokura announced the general availability of MidoNet, a distributed software-defined virtual network solutions specifically designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
IBM will invest $1 billion in research and development to design, create and integrate new Flash solutions into its expanding portfolio of servers, storage systems and middleware.
Salesforce.com (CRM) launches mobile services platform, Rackspace Hosting (RAX) launches mobile cloud stacks, HP (HPQ) announces cloud-based mobile management solution.
