Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta. While much talk around information technology (IT) is around organizations and businesses in the private sector, the public sector—specifically governments—typically lags behind. So which areas of IT are government IT decision-makers focusing their efforts? According to a recent study by IT research firm Gartner (IT), government IT spending will remain flat in 2013, projecting spending to total $449.5 billion—a slight decrease from 2012. Gartner indicated that mobile technologies, IT modernization and cloud computing are the top three focus areas for investment in 2013. The IT research firm also pointed to professional services and Big Data as areas of strong interest... |
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Grazed from The Boston Globe. Author: Naila Moreira. Long missing from the biotech and high-tech map of the region, Holyoke is finally finding an advantage in its location on the western end of the Massachusetts Turnpike: It’s much faster to reach than some of the most connected places on the Internet. Beginning this summer, life-sciences companies in the Boston area will be able to send troves of data to a new state-affiliated computing facility in Holyoke in a fraction of the time it would take to ship it to a commercial data center. Located at the new Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, the life-sciences facility could lead to breakthrough drugs and other products by making it easier, faster, and even cheaper for companies to investigate leads involving large amounts of data... |
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Grazed from IT News Online. Author: PR Announcement.
"Our engagements with government labs, academic institutions, and private data centers reveal a continuous struggle to manage an ever increasing amount of data," says Al Wegener, Founder and CTO of Samplify. "We have been asked for a simpler way to integrate our APAX encoding technology in Big Data and cloud applications. By using plug-in technology for HDF, we enable any application that currently uses HDF as its storage format to get the benefits of improved disk throughput and reduced storage requirements afforded by APAX."... |
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Samplify, the leading intellectual property company for accelerating memory, storage, and I/O bottlenecks in computing, consumer electronics and mobile devices, announces the availability of its APAX HDF (Hierarchical Data Format ) Storage Library for high-performance computing (HPC), Big Data, and cloud computing applications. With APAX HDF, HPC users can accelerate disk throughput by 3-8X and reduce the storage requirements of their HDF-enabled applications without having to modify their application software. The APAX HDF Storage Library works with Samplify's APAX Profiler tool to analyze the inherent accuracy in each dataset being stored, and applies the recommended encoding rate to maximize acceleration of algorithms with no effect on results.
Grazed from CXOToday. Author: Editorial Staff.
The benefits of the solution according to VMware include automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search for system monitoring, troubleshooting and root cause analysis. It supports streaming data and real-time queries, and features a just-in-time schema definition that adapts to any data format. Additionally, delivers the performance and scalability required by IT organizations for visualizing and analyzing multi-terabyte datasets... |
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VMware Inc. today launched VMware vCenter Log Insight, a new log management and analytics product for the cloud era. The extension from analytics to logs will enable IT organizations to gain real-time insights from vast amounts of log data generated by applications, physical hardware and virtualized infrastructure.
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Meyer.
That’s the problem that David Crawford is trying to fix with his cloud analytics startup MetricaDB, one of our Structure 2013 LaunchPad finalists. It’s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool for individual analysts who don’t care whether the data is held in a NoSQL database or behind a Salesforce or Google Analytics API – they just want to deal with it in one place... |
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As a company these days, it’s way too easy to find your data spread across a wide variety of cloud services. And when it comes to tying that information together in a meaningful way, the result can be pretty confusing if you don’t have a data infrastructure team to join the dots.
Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.
New capabilities added to the IBM PureSystems family expert integrated systems are designed to help clients reduce the security risks often faced when deploying cloud solutions, as well as enable quick recovery and restoration after disasters. A new mobile solution based on IBM Worklight server on PureSystems for both Power and x86 was created to accelerate clients' access to millions of mobile users by allowing mobile applications to be deployed in as little as 30 minutes... |
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IBM today announced enhancements across its systems portfolio that are designed to help organizations adopt cloud computing as they build toward Software Defined Environments (SDE). Enhancements to IBM's Smarter Storage line of Flash, disk and tape systems give clients faster access to business critical information and Big Data insights. New High Performance Computing solutions bring HPC capabilities to mainstream servers to help more clients crunch their ever-mounting volumes of data faster.
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Leena Rao.
Though financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, this is likely a smaller acquisition for Salesforce. EdgeSpring just came out of stealth last month, raising $11 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Lightspeed Ventures. The EdgeSpring platform accelerates the building of analytics applications that parse business intelligence data like sales, financials and more... |
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Salesforce is on a bit of an acquisition spree this week. After purchasing marketing software company ExactTarget for
Grazed from ReadWriteCloud. Author: Seth Payne. Big Data, just like Cloud Computing, has become a popular phrase to describe technology and practices that have been in use for many years. Ever-increasing storage capacity and falling storage costs - along with vast improvements in data analysis, however, have made Big Data available to a variety of new firms and industries. Scientific researchers, financial analysts and pharmaceutical firms have long used incredibly large datasets to answer incredibly complex questions. Large datasets, especially when analyzed in tandem with other information, can reveal patterns and relationships that would otherwise remain hidden. Extracting Simplicity From The Complex As a product manager within the Global Market Data group at NYSE Technologies, I was consistently impressed with the how customers and partners analyzed the vast sets of market trade, quote and order-book data produced each day... |
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Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Paul Williams.
SmartCloud now offering faster business analytics makes the IaaS offering more attractive to midsize business, allowing them to gain a competitive advantage by working more smartly and efficiently. News about this new speed enhancement to SmartCloud appeared in late May at Computerworld... |
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Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
Just like Amazon's other services, the hosted database service includes set-up, operations and scaling. For example, the service automatically patches the database software and backs up data. Code, applications, and tools that IT staff already use with their existing on-premise databases can also be used with RDS, according to Amazon... |
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After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services' RDS is finally generally available, and users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple places. The combination of customer adoption, numerous new features and a lot of operational experience has taken RDS (Relational Database Service) to a level where Amazon thinks its mature enough to be made generally available. Until now, users could gain access to it under a beta testing program.