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.
Canadian organizations are not as far along the transition to the new IT as some in other countries, so Dell’s global strategy of forming deep ISV alliances to create Dell Blueprints to help customers make that transition seems particularly relevant here.
Cisco has followed up momentum from the acquisition of Sourcefire, adding new capabilities and services and greatly strengthening Cisco Canada’s security team.
These new certifications from Hortonworks respond to requests from ISVs for additional differentiation as the Hadoop market grows.
Improved automation of Microsoft’s DFS global namespace management capability highlights this release.
Blue Data says their technology makes it possible to build 100 node Hadoop and Spark clusters in less than ten minutes, and get the same kind of on-premise Big Data as the huge cloud companies at a fraction of the cost.
A3Cube uses enhanced PCIe architecture to provide in-memory direct acceleration to existing applications, is compatible with the big storage OEMs rather than competitive with them. and goes to market entirely through channel partners.
Cisco’s new UCS Mini server is designed for the remote office market, but the new entry-level offering opens up the SMB-heavy Canadian market to UCS.
Dell has introduced four new appliances, in partnership with Nutanix, Cloudera, Oracle and Fusion-IO.
EMC’s latest purchase will help it get to all-flash arrays in the hundreds of terabytes, focusing on Big Data apps like Hadoop and SAP HANA.
Cisco says new managed service further evidence of the importance of security to its business.
HP’s new Big Data Discovery Experience as a Service gives partners an option for delivering Big Data capabilities in an on-demand model.
VMware introduces NSX, a networking virtualization product it hopes will do for the network what VSX did for server virtualization.
Vendor looks to partners to product applications to bring Big Data framework to life
Chipmaker introduces new Focus SKUs, eyes a move into Big Data with Hadoop bundle
Vendor also revises AppSystem solutions around Vertica and Autonomy offerings
AppSystem offering provides partners “Trojan Horse” into Big Data discussion
