Tag: aster data
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DCS systems, solutions and MDC steal show at Dell sales kick-off
Every year at the end of January Dell holds a giant kick-off meeting for our enterprise and public sales forces. The event, which has been held in Las Vegas the last two years, is a four-day happening consisting of keynotes, sessions and a full-scale expo where the sales team can touch and learn first-hand about…
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Dell + Aster data analytics solution: Live and in use
Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced the general availability of our Dell cloud solutions. One of the solutions we debuted was the Dell Cloud Solution for Data Analytics, a combination of our PowerEdge C servers with Aster Data’s nCluster, a massively parallel processing database with an integrated analytics engine. Earlier this…
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Dell Cloud Solutions up and running!
Back in March we announced Dell’s cloud solutions. Today at a press conference in San Francisco we announced their general availability along with some examples of customers who are employing them. (Woohoo!) What’s the big idea The idea behind these offerings has been to leverage the experience we in the DCS group have gained over…
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Dell’s hyper scale cloud efforts — Everything you wanted to know in 3 minutes
Last week a couple of us went down to San Antonio to help represent the OpenStack project at Rackspace’s partner summit. While there I met up with the VAR Guy. Mr. Guy got me chatting about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Below is the resulting video he…
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In-database analytics explained by Forrester’s James Kobielus
The week before last I headed up to Chicago to attend our partner Aster Data’s Big Data Insights summit. One of the featured speakers was James Kobielus of Forrester Research, a leading expert on data warehousing, predictive analytics, data mining, and complex event processing. With that background I thought Jim would be the perfect guy…
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Talking to Aster Data’s brand new CEO
I flew to Chicago today to support our partner Aster Data’s Big Data Insight summit. This Chicago event is a part of series of roadshows that Aster is doing for customers in cities in the US and Europe. Today’s event was held in the trendy Hotel Sax and featured talks from analysts as well as…
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Aster’s Big Data Architecture
As I mentioned in my last entry, the week before last I headed out to the TDWI World Conference in San Diego. Besides talking about Dell’s new BI practice, I was there to represent our data analytics partners, Aster Data and Greenplum. Both vendors also had booths of their own and I was able to…
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Big Data in the Windy City
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, I attended the TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) world conference in Chicago. The show was a mix of courses and exhibit space. I went to learn about the BI/Data warehousing segment and scout in preparation for the next conference in August. Why BI? My interest in the space comes from the…
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Aster Data’s CEO & Co-founder — Mayank Bawa
As part of the Cloud ISV partner program we announced last month, we are working with “big data” player Aster Data. When I was out for our launch a few weeks back, I met up with Mayank Bawa, CEO and co-founder of Aster Data. We got together in my hotel lobby and talked about Aster…
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Dell’s New High Performance Analytics & Cloud Server
Last but not least in our tour of the first flight of servers in Dell’s PowerEdge C line is the C2100. This was filmed last month at our launch right after we closed down our whisper suite. Click below and join solutions architect Rafael Zamora as he leads you through the thrills, chills and spills…
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Dell Unveils Cloud Solutions (Yippee!)
Today is the big day. The one we’ve been working towards for a long time. As a part of Dell’s quarterly launch “Solutions for the Virtual Era,” we are announcing the introduction of: Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications, our first Revolutionary cloud solution. Partnering with enterprise-class cloud pioneer Joyent, we are offering a turnkey…