Caringo sees its enhanced search capabilities as enabling Swarm’s ability to handle additional tasks, including facilitating Big Data analytics.
Big Data, Storage
Improved search, all-in-one packaging highlight Caringo’s Swarm 8
by Mark Cox •
Big Data
Big Data, Cloud
Microsoft touts innovative nature of new Dynamics AX, native to Azure
by Mark Cox •
Microsoft Dynamics AX went into the cloud in its last release, but the newest one is completely native to Azure, designed to fully leverage the hyperscale cloud for the first time.
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HDS moves beyond legacy heritage with scale-out appliance for Big Data and IoT
by Mark Cox •
The Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform, a new, next-generation technology, leverages technology acquired with Pentaho last year to provide an appliance that is aimed at Big Data, Data Lake and Internet of Things use cases now, and at broader use cases once an all-flash version is available later this year.
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Big Data, Distribution, Unified Communications
New Avaya Americas International channel chief Aguirre to work with Canada channel chief Auld
by Mark Cox •
Santiago Aguirre, who adds Canada to his Caribbean and Latin American responsibilities, says this will leverage regional strength to strengthen Avaya in Canada, and that he won’t be disrupting Auld’s work in Canada.
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Big Data, Cloud, Hardware
Recurring revenue model key to Internet of Things success
by Mark Cox •
While the Internet of Things is a hot commodity, monetizing it, except in industrial sectors where similar work has been done for years, has been problematic. One expert says that the key to monetization is implementing it with a successful recurring revenue model.
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Big Data, Cloud, Servers, Software
Lenovo, SAP expand alliance with new joint techs, go-to-market programs
by Mark Cox •
Details are pretty high level at this stage, and a Chinese cloud solutions venture will be China-focused — at least in the short term. There are, however, other elements which Lenovo channel partners will find of interest.
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Hadoop well past novelty stage: Syncsort survey
by Mark Cox •
Syncsort says the results from a recent survey dovetail with what they are seeing from their own customers — that customers are increasingly moving to Hadoop, and that while much of this to date has been for operational use cases, they expect to see more transformative uses that drive new business opportunities.
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Big Data, Security
IT security making poor use of analytics, Big Data: HPE
by Mark Cox •
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s third annual State of Security Operations Report finds that while security organizations are investing in analytics and Big Data, many are making preventable errors that give them a poor return on their investment.
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Big Data, Cloud, Networking
HPE debuts first IoT devices
by Robert Dutt •
HPE’s first IoT offerings include Edgeline devices that bring compute to the network edge, and an Aruba offering for managing location-based services.
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Big Data, Cloud, E-commerce
Inside SAP Anywhere
by Mark Cox •
SAP’s new HANA-powered CRM solution for SMBs, which will hit general availability in both the U.S. and Canada in 2016, is drawing lots of interest. ChannelBuzz takes a look at why.
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Big Data, Cloud, Hardware
HPE beefs up IoT strategy with new business unit, Intel partnership
by Mark Cox •
The Intel partnership will generate both three global IoT solutions labs for customers, with the North American one being in Houston, as well as a roadmap of jointly HPE-Intel developed IoT solutions.
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Big Data, Storage
EMC’s shift in Data Lake strategy opens up new partner opportunities
by Mark Cox •
EMC’s Data Lake 2.0 significantly enhances the original core-focused Data Lake strategy by extending it to the edge and the cloud, as well as strengthening the core. This is also likely to expand partner opportunities somewhat beyond the very limited involvement thought likely when the original Data lake was announced.
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Dell introduces first purpose-built Internet of Things gateway
by Mark Cox •
Dell also announced its Statistica data analytics package has been expanded to include middleware on gateways, and announced a contest for IoT solutions built on Dell gateways, which will have 16 winners, and runs until March 31, 2016.
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Big Data, Networking
Redefining Cisco as a Big Data/analytics company
by Mark Cox •
Big Data and analytics haven’t been important in Cisco’s past, but they are critical to its future, and the company has stepped up its efforts in the space.
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Big Data, Cloud, Security
Cisco gears up Internet of Things strategy
by Mark Cox •
Cisco announces several new IoT solutions, and talks about its strategy and partner opportunities in the space.
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Big Data, Networking, Security
Moving Cisco forward from its core
by Mark Cox •
Five months into the job, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins laid out his vision of where the IT economy is headed and what Cisco needs to do to lead the changes. It’s a vision that will fundamentally change Cisco from a hardware-focused maker of networking gear.
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Dell broadens Big Data market, cuts customer costs, with new reference architecture
by Mark Cox •
A reference architecture co-designed with vendor partners Cloudera and Syncsort simplifies Big Data and analytics processes for new Hadoop users, and chops the expense of data transformation jobs.
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Big Data, Cloud, Marketing
Dell steps up channel marketing activities
by Mark Cox •
At their Canadian partner event on Wednesday, Dell stressed their emphasis on driving more channel marketing activities, sour economy notwithstanding, and emphasized their building of the Future-Ready Enterprise brand with partners.
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HP Haven Startup Accelerator program to offer developers upgrade over free Vertica and IDOL
by Mark Cox •
New HP Big Data announcements also include a new release of HP Vertica optimized for the Internet of Things, and an extension of the HP Haven Big Data platform to provide the building blocks for about 80 per cent of solutions, with HP partners or professional services finishing off the job.
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Big Data, Software
Predixion partners with Wind River on IoT analytics
by Mark Cox •
Predixion’s technology is well suited to the IoT because its small footprint can push predictive analytics out to the edge, to sensors and machines with limited connectivity.
