Author Archives: Alison Diana

Alison Diana

Managing editor of Enterprise Technology. I've been covering tech and business for many years, for publications such as InformationWeek, Baseline Magazine, and Florida Today. A native Brit and longtime Yankees fan, I live with my husband, daughter, and two cats on the Space Coast in Florida.

Anthem Saves Millions of Dollars by Analyzing App Portfolios

May 7th, 2015 Comments Off

Anthem is perhaps as well known for its acquisitive nature as its health insurance offerings. Like many in its industry, Anthem grows partially through consolidation, purchasing both national and regional players to increase its marketshare. And each time the ...

SpaceCurve Adds Spatial World to Databases

May 6th, 2015 Comments Off

As many enterprises grapple with the influx of big data they're collecting about customers' spending habits, credit histories, online preferences, and social media posts, a start-up expects its ability to provide even more information about the physical world will ...

Dell Delivers Spectrum of Datacenter Storage Products

May 6th, 2015 Comments Off

Dell hopes to address enterprises' current and future storage needs with a flurry of new products, ranging from high-performance data repositories to entry-level arrays. Businesses typically have a mix of traditional architectures and software-defined storage co-existing in the same ...

EMC Extends Flash with XtremIO Upgrade

May 5th, 2015 (1)

EMC this week expanded the capacity of its XtremIO all-flash storage array in a free upgrade to existing customers, and launched a 40TB X-Brick building block to scale all-flash clusters. During a presentation at EMC World 2015, the developer ...

Intel’s New Xeon E7 Family Targets Big Data

May 5th, 2015 Comments Off

Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer designed the Xeon E7 v3 family to tap ...

HPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS

May 5th, 2015 (1)

Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable than its predecessor. IDC believes the USPS embrace of HPC exemplifies an important, accelerating IT trend: Leading organizations in the private ...

Cask Aims to Plug Hadoop Problems with CDAP 3.0

May 5th, 2015 Comments Off

Rather than invent new applications for existing processes, internal Hadoop developers typically try to use pre-existing programs but Apache Hadoop's complexities may prevent these professionals from empowering their enterprises to rapidly reap big data opportunities. This challenge is growing ...

VCE Launches VxRacks at EMC World 2015

May 4th, 2015 Comments Off

EMC division VCE took the spotlight at EMC World 2015's opening keynote when it introduced a family of hyper-converged rackscale systems designed to simplify the deployment of next-generation scale-out mobile, cloud, and distributed tier 2 applications. Targeting the decentralization ...

SanDisk PCIe Flash a Match for Online Dating Site

April 30th, 2015 Comments Off

With 100 million members, dating site PlentyOfFish wants to make sure technological bottlenecks don't stand in the way of true love. So when SanDisk began field-testing its recently announced Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators, PlentyOfFish took the next-generation cards ...

Microsoft, SOASTA Enhance Visual Studio Family at Build 2015

April 29th, 2015 Comments Off

Visual Studio took center stage at Build 2015, Microsoft's annual conference for software and web developers. For the first time, Microsoft has extended Visual Studio beyond Windows, with the introduction of Visual Studio Code that offers some capabilities on ...