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SAP and SAS partner for fast big data in-memory analytics

Madan Sheina, Lead Analyst, Software – Information Management

SAP and SAS announced a new partnership to create a joint product roadmap for in-memory analytics solutions. The aim is to make SAS’s advanced analytics software run smoothly on SAP’s HANA in-memory platform, helping joint customers run bigger, more complex, and faster analysis workloads.

The combination of technologies is potentially compelling for customers looking to mine intelligence out of Big Data. However, depending on which side’s perspective you take, this is a curious tie-up between two fierce analytic rivals that each market and sell their own in-memory platforms.

It remains to be seen whether this partnership can bring out the best of SAP and SAS’s core analytic strengths and competencies so that both parties gain, while also creating compelling value for customers. Historically, this hasn’t always been the case. Nevertheless this is one of the more interesting high-profile …

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Cloud allows companies to double revenue, claims IBM study

The latest cloud study, this time from IBM, has revealed that companies who use cloud computing as a competitive advantage can expect to have their revenue margins doubled compared to those who don’t have high adoption.

In the global survey of over 800 business decision makers and users, IBM found that leading organisations are moving to the cloud to move away from their competitors in a crowded space.

The report puts companies into three categories: pacesetters, who are “deploying cloud on a broad scale”; challengers, who are at a similar level to pacesetters yet “lag on differentiation and market responsiveness”; and chasers, who are more cautious on cloud.

And the research also details the three areas in which the pacesetters are taking charge: strategic reinvention, such as improving business models and rapid product innovation; making better decisions; and deeper collaboration.  

In particular, these companies are 117% more likely to …

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Building Your Hybrid Cloud – Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation

Keith Mayer and myself kick off our new multi-part series today on how you can build your hybrid cloud environment with Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Windows Azure by laying down a quick overview of what we can expect for the series as well as diving into the new features found in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation.
Build Your Lab! Download Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market.

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Cloud Expo: Top 10 Tips for Engaging Customers with Social Media

Over the past decade, social media has disrupted the traditional methods of providing customer support. In the new era, digital tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest are transforming organizations into social enterprises.
For companies of any size, a strong social media strategy is a growing necessity in the world of branding. What savvy businesses are doing is taking advantage of collaborative online platforms to shorten the distance between support specialists and consumers. The bottom line is that social media is a strategic tool that can be used to manage a company’s online reputation, control the spread of misinformation and enhance the overall customer experience.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Robert Collazo, Manager of Social Media and Senior Systems Engineer at Rackspace, will explain how you can leverage social and mobile technologies to drive real business outcomes. Attendees will learn how to optimize their company’s online presence in order to build customer engagement and extract value from social networks like Facebook, micro-blogs like Twitter and multimedia platforms like YouTube.

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MangoApps to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps, the social collaboration company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
MangoApps is a collaboration network that combines Employee Social Networking, Team Collaboration tools and Intranet into one seamless product.
Cloud Expo® 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4-7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

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Cloud Expo: Unified Security Across Mobile, Web, Cloud and APIs

As users are increasingly consuming data through mobile and cloud services, enterprise must adapt to enable these new channels while maintaining security and providing a consistent user experience. Users should be able use their web credentials, but still seamlessly access data through these additional channels.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, will examine the different security and identity considerations across Web, mobile and cloud, and explore API best practices to achieve federation across these channels.

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Five Misconceptions About Big Data that May Be Haunting Your Organization

With a slight chill in the air, we know Halloween is just around the corner. But what could be spookier than ghosts, goblins or a haunted house? For many IT managers it’s the fear of Big Data, which can be understandably overwhelming at first. We’ve compiled five of the spookiest misconceptions about Big Data that may be haunting your organization.
Misconception 1: “We’re a small company. We don’t need to worry about Big Data yet.”
Boo! Don’t be spooked by all the news of what big companies are doing in Big Data. Companies of all sizes can and should be capturing data on some level. Whether you’re a Fortune 500 enterprise or a smaller firm, you want to understand your customers and what makes them tick.

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Building Your Hybrid Cloud – Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation

Keith Mayer and myself kick off our new multi-part series today on how you can build your hybrid cloud environment with Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Windows Azure by laying down a quick overview of what we can expect for the series as well as diving into the new features found in Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation.
Build Your Lab! Download Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 and get the best virtualization platform and private cloud management solution on the market.

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Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform: a Promising Distributed Hardware Infrastructure

Seagate Technology hopes to redefine cloud storage infrastructure with the unveiling of its internally developed Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform. A potential leap forward in scale-out storage architectures, the innovative storage platform promises to simplify data management and improve performance and scalability while lowering total cost of ownership of typical cloud infrastructures.

“With the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform, our internal R&D teams have designed an unique, first-of-its-kind storage architecture to enable cheaper, more scalable object storage solutions that free up IT professionals from having to invest in hardware and software they don’t need—while empowering them with the most innovative storage technology available,” said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer. “This technology optimizes storage solutions for a new era of cloud storage systems, while drastically reducing overall costs.”

The platform leverages Seagate’s expertise in hardware and software storage systems to integrate a new key/value API – which will be open sourced – and Ethernet connected with Seagate hard drive technology. Designed for rapid implementation and deployment in any cloud storage software stack, this technology can be deployed across a portfolio of storage devices enabling system builders and software developers to design new solutions that will deliver against a full array of cloud data center use cases.

Redefining hardware and software capabilities, the platform enables cloud service providers and independent software vendors to optimize scale-out file and object-based storage—simply and effectively. With the Kinetic Open Storage platform, applications can now manage specific features and capabilities and rapidly implement and deploy in any cloud storage software stack. The technology also increases I/O efficiency by removing bottlenecks and optimizing cluster management, data replication, migration, and active archive performance.

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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Locking Down the Cloud with Akamai

Cost savings, scalability and offload are the hallmarks of cloud computing benefits. Sub-par performance, sketchy reliability, and porous security concerns rank among top concerns and have undoubtedly led to delays in growth and adoption.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Michael Schmidt, Principal Solutions Engineer at Akamai Technologies, will show how Akamai’s Intelligent Platform can help you address these challenges without sacrificing security or control.
Michael Schmidt is a Principal Solutions Engineer based out of San Mateo California. Mr. Schmidt is responsible for selling Akamai’s security and cloud acceleration and enablement services to many of the Bay Area’s largest high tech customers. He is works extensively with his customers in helping them shape and secure their evolving Cloud strategies. He has been with Akamai for 8 years and has over 15 years of experience in IT and web development.

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