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Virtualizing Browser Apps - Mobolize Makes the Web Work Offline
It’s really a quite interesting way to optimize browser-based users. Mobilize’s product line is CacheFront, which as it sounds puts an enhanced secure cache on endpoint “browsers” to minimize network bandwidth and of course increase end user performance. CacheFront Enterprise goes all the way to enabling local editing of docs and web forms, enabling many browser apps to run as if actually live connected ... More than a cache, this really a way of virtualizing browser applications, and we think as more applications become web-based, that this kind of optimization and acceleration technology will become ubiquitous.
Read MoreEnterprise File Collaboration
There is a lot of confusion in the enterprise file collaboration space right now and frankly, vendors can’t afford it.
Read MoreWhat is Software Defined Storage? EMC ViPR announced at EMCWorld 2013
Here at EMC World 2013, one of the biggest themes is “software defined” storage. Much like the vague overuse of “cloud” as a marketing description, the term “software defined” is being abused by many. But after getting more details, we think EMC has got it right with the new ViPR storage architecture.
Read MoreExablox Brings It On - Enterprise Features for Everyone
Exablox announced their OneBlox storage system today which is sure to grab the attention of any non-storage expert who has ever struggled with more than one drive. What they’ve basically done with OneBlox is implemented an enterprise featured CIFS/SMB file system on top of an embedded object storage platform. It’s dead simple to use with built-in backup, DR, and capacity optimization integral to affordable 8 drive-bay nodes. With this design, OneBlox is aimed at SME markets and larger enterprise departmental scenarios.
Read MoreRevitalizing MySQL - Tokutek Open Sources TokuDB High Performance Engine
Many companies, startups and regular enterprises, have relied on MySQL over the years as a low cost (open source or supported versions) yet highly reliable relational database. Yet in these days of growing data sets, many development projects now start with NoSQL (or newSQL) variants in mind. These alternative databases tend to trade-off ACID transactions and SQL “join” query ability in exchange for greater performance and availability at scales where traditional SQL db engines bog down or collapse. Unfortunately, there are a lot of experienced devs/DBAs and existing apps based and built on MySQL and it’s not so easy to rip and replace….
Read MoreNothing’s Too Fast for Operational Intelligence - ScaleOut Software’s hServer
There are a lot of HPC technologies coming soon to a data center near you! The latest offering from ScaleOut Software, known for their in-memory data grid solutions, is a customized in-memory data grid for Hadoop. This enables a blistering fast big data style real-time analysis of dynamically changing data. Solutions that use this are processing live operational data into actionable intelligence - financials, reservation systems, live customer experience,...
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