As we look ahead to the upcoming year, some key technology areas are going to shift. There has been new innovations and advancements around some older ones. Although not an all-encompassing list– this is a good breakdown of where the IT community...
At the Teradata 2012 Executive Forum, the big data and analytic data solutions company expanded and enhanced its Unity portfolio, and announced several customer success stories.
Developments from O'Reilly's Strata conference and Hadoop World this week include MapR Technologies bringing Hadoop and NoSQL capabilities together on an easy, dependable and fast platform and EMC announcing EMC Greenplum Chorus open source code...
Cloud Block Storage, based on OpenStack, launches officially today on Rackspace's public cloud in the U.S. and U.K. The company says they are moving to meet growing customer demand for reliable and consistent storage.
Reports indicate that Rackspace (RAX) will likely win more business from retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT), which is hiring engineers for the OpenStack platform.
This week Gartner and IBM release reports studying the true impact and direction of the big data market, while Teradata (TDC) launched a big data analytics appliance.
Cisco (CSCO) has made several recent announcements about its cloud strategy, a full solution portfolio for SAP HANA and a new CRS elastic core solution.
IBM has expanded its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems with the introduction of PureData System. These systems compete with Oracle's Exadata and SAP's HANA in the high performance computing (HPC) appliance market.
Apache Hadoop has become one of the most important technologies in the Big Data ecosystem. We recently spoke with John Schroeder, the founder, president and CEO of MapR, to learn more about the latest on MapR's mission to make it easier for...