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Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market
A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% of IT executives and 9% of business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them.
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Facebook buys Parse, gets into development tools business
Facebook is acquiring Parse, a cloud service company that makes it easier for developers to build mobile apps by providing them with a hosted back-end infrastructure, the companies announced Thursday.
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Fusion-io unveils 1.6TB ioFX platform for workstations
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has announced a 1.6 TB version of its ioFX workstation acceleration platform, intended for creative professionals.
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Imation launches enterprise encryption drives without expense of FIPS compliance
Imation?s IronKey brand has announced two new encryption drives aimed at enterprises that want to use encrypted storage but don?t fancy the heavy expense of buying FIPS-compliant hardware.
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Briggs Marine deploys private cloud for international operations
Maritime contractor Briggs Marine is migrating to a private enterprise cloud platform to help safeguard operations from outages, ensure remote data access to international teams and deliver IT flexibility.
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Microsoft extends Azure Hadoop, mobile app development functionality
Microsoft has released a number of enhancements to Windows Azure that will make it easier to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters and integrate more mobile apps with the cloud platform.
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Revlon builds private cloud with NetApp
Revlon says it is moving to an "agile" data infrastructure and turning its 3.6 petabytes of business data into a "business driver" through a private cloud architecture.
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CEBIT: Software AG goes all-out for in-memory data processing
Software AG is adding in-memory capabilities to the Enterprise Service Bus with Version 9.0 of its sprawling webMethods software suite, while the new Terracotta In-Genius will use in-memory technology to speed the processing of business intelligence.
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Sound waves used to increase disk drive capacity
Oregon State University researchers have discovered a way to use sound waves to enhance magnetic data storage.
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128TB tape cartridges key to kilometre-size telescope
Astronomers building a kilometre-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the one million GB of data per day they plan to generate.
