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5 Themes from Hadoop World
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…
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Amazon Web Services Opening its Seventh Data Center in Oregon
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…
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Tableau Brings Data Visualization to Hadoop
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…
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SAP Opens a Mobile App Store – the CIO Friendly Variety
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…
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A Major Reason for Accel Partners’ $100 Million Fund: Big Data Apps are the Future of Hadoop
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,…
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5 Reasons Why Accel Partners Announced a $100 Million Big Data Fund
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…
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Rackspace Launches OpenStack Private Cloud
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…
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Hooke Em’ Horns – University of Texas Gives Out Free Google Apps GMail Addresses for Life
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…
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5 Distinct Hadoop Deployment Patterns
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…
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Will Citrix Buy EnStratus?
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…