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Appcelerator’s 4th Acquisition Signals Ambitious Hadoop Plan
Appcelerator made its fourth buy in two years this week, with the acquisition of Nodeable, a small Hadoop startup with big ambitions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed A few months ago Nodeable launched StreamReduce, a pre-processing solution that organizes data streams before they enter Hadoop. This extra layer makes MapReduce jobs considerably speedier ...
Big Data for the Little Guys: Beyond the Fortune 100
Colin Shearer, the head of IBM’s advanced analytics business, took some time off during his company’s IOD conference last month to discuss IBM’s upcoming subscription-based analytics service with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Analytics Answers, set to launch within the next few months, couples big data with the cloud to make this technology available to companies ...
Interview: How Nominum Makes DNS Data Work for the Enterprise
Daniel Blasingame, the general manager for Nominum’s embedded solutions business, recently stopped by theCube at IBM’s annual Information On Demand (IOD) event to discuss the connection between DNS and big data with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly. Nominum is a privately-held, VC backed startup that was founded 13 years ago in Silicon Valley. Its chief ...
Which Vendors Got it Right? The Shift from BI to Appliance-Driven Big Data
Mark Kettering, the chief executive officer of Brightlight Consulting, made an appearance on theCube during IBM IOD 2012, providing his take on the undying big data trend. Kettering founded his company eight years ago and has worked in IT for 30 years, granting him the opportunity to witness the transition from traditional business intelligence to ...
VMware Strikes Mobile Virtualization Partnership with Motorola
VMware started seriously pushing Horizon Mobile at this year’s VMworld conference, when it announced separate agreements with Samsung and LG to pre-install the platform on select devices. This week the company revealed that it started working with Motorola towards the same goal. Horizon is a virtualization solution that enables employees to run duel persons on their ...
IBM Launches Kindergarten-Proof Storage Box for SMBs
Big Blue announced the IBM Storwize V3700 this morning, a scaled-down configuration of its enterprise storage virtualization system that takes the core features and makes them available for SMBs. The V3700 can house up to 120 drives with a maximum capacity of 180 terabytes. The system can include up to 8 gigabytes of memory and ...
Millennial Media Doubles Spend, Revenue in Q3
Mobile advertising giant Millennial Media posted financial results for the third quarter of 2012 this week. Millennial has been investing in sales initiatives and R&D to maintain its momentum and it seems that this approach is working. Millennial reported that revenue increased 88 percent year over year to $47.4 million, a much bigger gain than ...
Infineta Offers Free Data Migration to Those Hit by Superstorm Sandy
WAN optimization firm Infineta is giving away free 30-day Data Migration Accelerator licenses to enterprises whose IT infrastructure was compromised during Hurricane Sandy. The vendor’s goal is to make things a bit easier for companies that have terabytes of even petabytes of mission-critical data sitting in affected locations throughout the East Coast. “Such major disasters ...
What’s the Science Behind Political Data? [Infographic]
Storage vendor NetApp is offering voters a fresh perspective on the election with a new infographic that lets us glimpse into the data science that goes on behind the scenes. The Democratic and Republican conventions each generated one terabyte worth of e-mails, tweets, video streams and mobile data. The infrastructure for these conventions consisted of ...
Pentaho Adds More BI Features to Flagship Product
Data visualization firm Pentaho just debuted Business Analytics 4.8, the latest release of its data integration and analytics platform. The new version features two major enhancements, including an iPad app. The company says that Pentaho Mobile is a full-featured port for Business Analytics, with interactive dashboards and the “power to create new analysis on the ...