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Steve Ballmer officially departs Microsoft leadership with board resignation
Six months after passing over the torch to Satya Nadella, former Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his resignation from the board of directors with a heartfelt letter urging his successor to avoid making the same mistakes he did. Hand picked by Bill Gates in 1980 as the then-emerging operating system maker’s first business ...
Canadian startup nets $1.1M for its bid to build analytics for the rest of us
Enterprises have largely caught on to the potential of Big Data analytics, but the complexity of digesting and interpreting data has left many small companies out of the loop. Toronto-based startup Vantage Analytics, Inc. just raised $1.1 million in seed capital to fund its effort to deliver a suite of modules for Shopify Inc.’s popular e-commerce ...
Analysts praise latest Cisco job cuts as needed stage in smart migration strategy
Cisco Systems Inc. is moving to eliminate another 6,000 jobs in what is at least the fourth major round of cuts since 2009 as part of an effort by CEO John Chambers to free up resources to focus on growth areas like security and the cloud, where the company has been investing particularly aggressively recently. ...
Software-defined surprises expected at VMworld 2014 | #CubeConversations
Virtualization stalwart VMware Inc. has a lot in store for its annual customer event in San Francisco next week. The company is keeping a tight lid on the details, but Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and senior analyst Stu Miniman, a recipient of the prestigious vExpert title from VMworld 2012, have a pretty good idea of ...
Dell brings global monitoring to VMware’s software-defined data center theme party
VMware Inc.’s annual customer conference next week is expected to see the virtualization stalwart extend its tentacles deeper into the storage layer and the network, a theme that the ecosystem has been predictability quick to pick up on. Dell Inc. became the latest partner on the bandwagon this morning with the announcement of a preview ...
Can HP IDOL jumpstart the Big Data app economy? | #HPBigData2014
Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking to take the driver’s seat in bringing about the era of pre-packaged analytic applications with the IDOL platform from Autonomy, and according to the head of product marketing for the subsidiary, it already has results to show for the effort. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded HP Vertica Big ...
Cloud and analytics ratcheting each other up the enterprise | #HPBigData2014
The democratization of compute and storage catalyzed by the rise of the public cloud is driving more and more organizations for whom large-scale analytics were previously cost-prohibitive to tap into their internal, fast-growing information troves. That increasing data use in turn is fueling the consumption of yet more external infrastructure resources, thereby creating a sort ...
Zetta.net extends ultra-fast data protection to server images
While others in the industry are trying to tackle the growing challenges of backup with on-premise arrays that reach into the public cloud, Zetta.net, Inc. is sticking to the tried-and-true formula of providing data protection directly as a service. The Mountain View, CA-based startup is now looking to press further ahead with the latest release ...
How one company merges cloud economics with enterprise functionality | #CubeConversations
It may not be the biggest name in the converged infrastructure space yet, and it may not be the newest either, but SimpliVity Inc. is growing so fast that the market has no choice but to pay attention. The Massachusetts-based maker of data center modules has tripled its headcount to 300 since last August and ...
What you missed in Cloud: removing barriers to hybrid computing
The hybrid cloud has never been higher on the industry’s to-do list. Vendors both large and small are lining up to tackle the many challenges of linking on- and off-premise environments, chief among them interoperability, which drew even more attention than usual last week after Apprenda Inc. joined the race for open standards. The fast-growing ...