It’s nearing the end of Hadoop World.  Over the past few days we’ve been talking to developers, system engineers, data scientists and the entrepreneurs who are building a next generation of apps using big data. Here are five themes I heard from attendees: Hadoop is Big but is it Growing too Fast. Hadoop’s growth is ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Oregon, arguably one of the most popular regions in the world for the new wave of data center development. The AWS data center is located in Boardman, along the Columbia River. The Columbia is a popular spot for data centers. Data centers there enjoy ...

Through a partnership with Cloudera, Tableau Software has built a Hadoop connector for doing big data visualization. The new connector uses Hive to collect data across distributed nodes. That data is then pulled into Tableau for visualization. Tableau’s data engine processes the information that is piped in from Hadoop. Data can be pulled in as ...

SAP is building out an app store. The apps are available to be viewed as demos. Customers then purchase the apps through SAP internal sales or SAP partners. The development is being driven by SAP and its partners, powered by Sybase Unwired Platform. The store is available online and through an on-device version for iOS ...

This morning at Hadoop World, Accel Partner’s Ping Li talked about the need for a new generation of apps while talking about the news of his firm’s new $100 million fund. On theCube today, Li and Cloudera CEO Mike Olson talked about the fund and the importance those apps will have on the entire Hadoop ecosystem. “We ...

Accel Partners has announced a $100 million big data fund. The news is here, here, here and here. There are several reasons why the fund makes sense now. Here are five: Consumerization. Accel Partners portfolio companies include companies such as Facebook and Dropbox. These are companies that are processing data on an unprecedented scale. Current ...

Rackspace is making its first steps toward a support-centric model with its new OpenStack based private cloud. The new service is built on a Rackspace developed reference architecture that uses OpenStack “Diablo” software release as its project code. Its next update will come in April with the OpenStack Essex release. Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is intended for medium-to-large ...

In the Longhorn state, you take care of things in a big way. That is certainly true for the University of Texas, which is giving out free email for life to 450,000 University of Texas (UT) alumni and the 50,000 student body. Named UTmail, the GMail, Google Apps for Education service was rolled out to 35,000 ...

In an e-mail interview this week with Forrester Senior Analyst James Kobielus, I asked about Hadoop’s real-time capabilities. The conversation turned to what he sees as five distinct Hadoop deployment patterns. It’s a good primer for Hadoop World next week where SiliconAngle will live stream from theCube. Here they are: Leveraging Hadoop Proprietary Distros: Use ...

Now, I can’t let Ben Kepes and Krishnan Subramanian have all the fun. These two well-respected bloggers and #Clouderati members are both saying that EnStratus is looking like a Citrix acquisition target. It appears that EnStratus (now Enstratus Networks LLC) is getting a good bit of business from enterprise customers to fill in the gaps ...