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WANdisco Releases Free Hadoop Distro
WANdisco, a Silicon Valley firm that specializes in data replication software, announced the launch of its very own Hadoop distribution. WANdisco Distro (WDD) is available for free download from the company’s site. The release comes less than three months after the company finalized its acquisition of Hadoop-specialist AltoStor. WDD is pegged as the “first fully ...
Dell’s Gotta Sell a “Complete Package” to Win with $50 PC
Last month at CES, Dell unveiled Ophelia, a 3.5″ x 1.5″ WiFi thumb computer priced under $100. Wikibon co-founder David Floyer discussed the upcoming product and its potential impact on the consumer electronics space on an earlier episode of our NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Floyer regards Ophelia as an interesting development, a device ...
SDN, Brazil Make Headlines This Week in the Cloud
This past week, two software-defined networking startups announced multi-million dollar funding rounds, and several vendors unveiled new cloud solutions in an attempt to expand into new markets. Big Switch Networks received $20 million from Intel Capital. The startup sells network virtualization software that serves both as an abstraction layer and as an application framework for ...
Python-Powered Analytics + New Age Ads: This Week in Big Data
This week was an exciting stretch for big data. One emerging player raised nearly $30 million in funding after implementing a new way of analyzing consumer trends; DARPA bought a stake in the future of Python; and IBM strengthened its already massive analytics line-up with a strategic buy. First up is the Boston-based DataXu, receiving $27 ...
Big Data Pimpin’ : Pentaho Sticking Its Analytics in More BI Tools
Big Data is full of promise, but the optimism wanes when you start factoring in new infrastructure changes. That can be costly, but as the ecosystem builds around Big Data for the enterprise, the infrastructure is being modified accordingly. The latest is a team up from Pentaho and Xyratex to create a big data offering that ...
Dell Privatization Won’t Hamper Innovation
With Dell returning to the private sector, some rivals quickly put forth the idea that Dell won’t be able to afford the necessary R&D and M&A to remain competitive or innovative during this industry shift away from consumer PCs. But Dell is a cash-heavy firm, despite the debt racked up from its pending stock buyout, and with ...
DataXu Raises $27M for Programmatic Marketing
DataXu just raised $27 million in a third round of funding led by Thomvest Ventures, the private VC of Thomson Reuters partner Peter Thomson. Current backers Atlas Venture, Flybridge Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures chipped in as well. DataXu is a Boston-based firm that specializes in “programmatic marketing,” a way of reacting to consumer behavior ...
EMC + Capgemini Launch Joint Cloud Ops: Curbing Amazon’s Efforts in Enterprise?
This morning EMC and Capgemini released a joint announcement, revealing details on their extended partnership with a new cloud initiative in Brazil. The consultancy is opening up a dedicated business that will collaborate with EMC to deliver as-a-service solutions “designed for specific vertical market segments” to local businesses. The portfolio will include storage-, archive- and ...
China vs. Anonymous: Different Motives behind Latest Government Breaches
Two major government agencies were hacked in recent weeks, for two very different reasons. The first victim was the Department of Energy, which revealed on Monday that its network was compromised by foreign hackers in mid-January. The perpetrators managed to steal personal information from several hundred employees and contractors, but no classified data was compromised. “As ...
Samsung Strategically Invests in Cloud Services as Mobile Wars Heat Up
Cloudant announced that it has received a strategic investment from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, the VC arm of the Korean handset manufacturer. The Massachusetts-based firm said it will spend the money on research and development, but did not disclose the size of the contribution. Cloudant, the brainchild of MIT particle physicists, provides a globally distributed ...