Pivotal Aims to Disrupt Cloud, Big Data Analytics
Drew Robb | May 10, 2013
Source: Enterprise Apps Today
A startup called Pivotal, headed by VMWare's former CEO, wants to be the go-to cloud operating system. And it wants to shift analytics focus from Big Data to fast data...
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How P&G Presents Data to Decision-Makers
Tom Davenport | April 4, 2013
Source: Harvard Business Review
Those of us who believe that managers make better decisions when key data are presented visually tend to get very excited about all the innovation going on in the graphical display of information. (For a sampling of some new and cool tools, see the popular Hans Rosling TED talk.)...
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EMC, VMware Prep Big Data Analytics Spinoff
Charles Babcock | March 27, 2013
Source: Information Week
On April 1, EMC and VMware will spin out Pivotal Inc., a potential giant of the big data analytics field. They hope the company will grow to $1 billion in revenue within five years. The budding company, which brings together a set of software components that were not originally designed to work together, will produce a data analysis platform...
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EMC Introduces World's Most Powerful Hadoop Distribution: Pivotal HD
Staff | February 25, 2013
Source: Yahoo! Finance
EMC's new Pivotal HD™ is an Apache Hadoop distribution that natively integrates the industry-leading EMC Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) database technology with the Apache Hadoop framework. The engineering innovation and technology called HAWQ™, brings Greenplum's decade of research and development on the industry's best MPP...
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EMC Greenplum Brings SQL to Hadoop
Ben Woo | February 28, 2013
Source: Forbes
Back in January, I wrote a blog post on how we, as an industry will need to combat the Big Data skills shortage. One of the ways I suggested was to bring traditional capabilities, methods and approaches to Big Data (namely Hadoop)...
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Business Insider: Cetas is part of new EMC/VMware Initiative with Greenplum
Julie Bort | December 4, 2012
Source: Business Insider
VMware and EMC are committing key existing technology, people and programs from both companies focused on Big Data and Cloud Application Platforms under one virtual organization—the Pivotal Initiative. It will include 800 employees from EMC’s Greenplum and Pivotal Labs divisions, and 600 employees from VMware’s vFabric, Cloud Foundry, GemFire, SpringSource and Cetas organizations...
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With Pivotal Initiative, EMC is Living Up to Its Messaging
Jeff Kelly | December 4, 2012
Source: SiliconANGLE
EMC announced that it is forming a new “virtual organization” focused on Big Data and application development in the cloud. EMC is calling the new organization the Pivotal Initiative and it will include 800 employees from EMC’s Greenplum and Pivotal Labs divisions, and 600 employees from VMware’s vFabric, Cloud Foundry, GemFire, SpringSource and Cetas organizations. EMC owns over 80% of VMware, where former EMC COO Pat Gelsinger joined as CEO earlier this fall...
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New Business Technology Seen to Disrupt Roles, Relationships
Don Clark | August 28, 2012
Source: Wall Street Journal
Put a bunch of tech CEOs on stage and many optimistic predictions are bound to follow. But the future sketched out at a gathering in San Francisco seemed a lot more comfortable for technology providers than corporate users...
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Cetas: From Start-Up to VMware Acquisition in 18 Months
Richard Springer | June 18, 2012
Source: India West
Sudhakar Muddu, co-founder and chief executive officer of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Cetas, said he founded the company 18 months ago because he wanted to provide a way for companies to sift through “massive amounts of data” to identify “core customers” and make sure that they “come back every day.”...
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VMware Announces Open Source Project to Enable Apache Hadoop to Run on Private and Public Clouds
Staff | June 13, 2012
Source: VMWare
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new open source project, Serengeti, to enable enterprises to quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments...
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50 Amazing Companies Win TiE Company Showcase
Richard Springer | June 8, 2012
Source: India West
TiE Silicon Valley has announced the 50 winners of its TiE50 Competition Program. There were a total of 131 finalists vying for the prestigious awards...
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Oracle Unveils Industry's Broadest Cloud Strategy
Adds Social Cloud and Showcases Early Customers
Staff | June 6, 2012
Source: Yahoo! Finance
"Almost seven years of relentless engineering and innovation plus key strategic acquisitions. An investment of billions. We are now announcing the most comprehensive Cloud on the planet Earth," said Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison. "Most cloud vendors only have niche assets. They don't have platforms to extend. Oracle is the only vendor that offers a complete suite of modern, socially-enabled applications, all based on a standards-based platform." ...
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VMware Can Disrupt Big Data Analytics With Cetas Acquisition
Staff | May 12, 2012
Source: The Times of India
VMware, the leading virtualization company has acquired Cetas, an early stage startup focused on making access to big data analytics easier and cheaper. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed yet. [1] VMware competes with Microsoft, Oracle and Citrix in the virtualization space...
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The Cetas Story
Sumant Mandal, Clearstone Ventures
Sumant Mandal | May 1, 2012
Source: Clearstone
It is an interesting experience to sell a company. I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in a few successful sales recently, but have to admit that each one is a different emotional experience. It’s probably like watching your kids leave home for college (something I still have to experience)...
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IBM, VMware Make Big Data Cloud Acquisitions
Brian Taylor | April 26, 2012
Source: Talkin' Cloud
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) both have made Big Data-related acquisitions. IBM snapped up data discovery and navigation firm Vivisimo, while VMware announced its purchase of cloud data analytics startup Cetas Software. Armonk has Big Data in its sights with the Vivisimo deal. In its release, IBM said the acquisition “accelerates IBM’s Big Data analytics initiatives” by enabling enterprises...
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