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Pivotal Is About Big Data, Not Fighting Amazon
The word on Pivotal, the new big data venture spun out of EMC and VMware, is that it might pose a serious challenge to Amazon Web Services, which has eaten into both companies’ sales by making it affordable to rent computing and storage resources.
VM-aware, hyper-converged storage to make room for more hypervisors
So far the “VM” in VM-aware storage stands more for VMware than for virtual machine. Most vendors in this market develop their systems for VMware vSphere, the dominant hypervisor on the market.
- Premiered: 03/29/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Virtual Storage
Platfora Shoots for a Big Data BI Layer
March 26, 2013 – Platfora has equipped its namesake in-memory platform for Hadoop to bring the interest in big data closer to business users and keep the complex data processes behind the curtains.
- Premiered: 03/26/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Information Management
VDI storage problem? Forget extra SAN—use server RAM
Without some kind of storage optimization or a lot of expensive storage, VDI projects stall well before companies scale their environments.
- Premiered: 03/20/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: SearchVirtualDesktop
Cloud gateways morph into cloud controllers market
Call them cloud controllers, cloud storage enablement or maybe cloud-integrated storage. Just don’t call them cloud storage gateways, at least not when you’re talking to any of the vendors who sell these intelligent cloud storage systems.
Big data projects require big changes in hardware and software
IT pros called in on big data projects are finding that the typical approach doesn’t play nice on enterprise-grade virtualized infrastructure.
- Premiered: 03/12/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: SearchDataCenter.com
