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Zettaset Raises $10M to Simplify Hadoop for a Complex Big Data World
Zettaset raised $10 million in a Series B financing round led by HighBar partners. Brocade also participated, as did original backers DFJ and Epic Ventures. HighBar’s John Kim and Roy Thiele-Sardiña have joined the company’s board. Zettaset offers a software solution that simplifies Hadoop deployment and configuration in complex enterprise environments. As far as the ...
Alfresco Names SuccessFactors President as New CEO
Alfresco, a maker of open-source, enterprise grade content management software, appointed Doug Dennerline as its new CEO this week. He is replacing co-founder John Powell, who revealed that the change in management was driven by his company’s ambitions to go public. “We have come to a unique intersection as a company and I couldn’t be happier ...
Meg Whitman Reportedly Considering Bids on HP Assets
Several investment bankers are willing to write Meg Whitman a check in exchange for some of Hewlett-Packard’s underperforming subsidiaries, an anonymous insider tipped off Bloomberg this week. “The company has seen an increase in inquiries after a regulatory filing late last year that said it would consider disposing of businesses that don’t meet goals, said ...
VMware’s Former CTO Stephen Herrod on Software-Led Infrastructure: Fodder for His New Gig
General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage tech startups, nabbed VMware CTO and SVP of research Stephen Herrod. The Stanford-educated executive joined the virtualization giant in 2002, helping to spearhead his company’s development efforts while quickly climbing the corporate ladder. “Over the last 11 years, Steve Herrod has helped to ...
Tokutek Meets the Big Data Challenge, Doubles Users in 2012
MySQL developer Tokutek boasts that its customer base grew by 200 percent last year, a statistic it credits to rapidly accelerating adoption of its TokuDB database engine. The company landed lucrative deals with Evidenzia, Swaylo, SWRI and several other major corporations throughout the year. Demand grew so rapidly, in fact, that Tokutek had to hire ...
AMD Launches Facebook-Inspired Motherboard for Enterprise Workloads
AMD is rolling out a new motherboard designed to run inside specialized servers purpose-built for specific workloads. The Open 3.0 chipset, codenamed Roadrunner, couples speedy processes with design methodologies developed by one of the biggest web-scale companies around. The 16” x 16.5” board can fit into 1U, 1.5U, 2U or 3U servers and features two Opteron ...
MapR Launches Hadoop Ops in EMEA
MapR has opened a new office in London to serve as its European headquarters. The Hadoop distributor says that the outlet will provide more direct technical support and sales assistance to clients in the entire EMEA region. The man in charge of MapR’s UK HQ is Steve Jenkins, who talked a bit about the significance ...
Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Defends Her Actions on Twitter
The death of Internet prodigy Aaron Swartz has triggered a massive, viral protest that is still in full swing today. Mike Wheatly provided an elaborate breakdown of the circumstances that led up to Swartz’ apparent suicide last week. It all began when the Reddit co-founder was charged with downloading MIT’s JSTOR archive, a repository that contains several ...
Aerospike is 10x Faster than What You’re Using Now
Citing the results of a recent benchmark study conducted by Thumbtack Technology, NoSQL startup Aerospike boasts that its database offering is 10 times more powerful than the leading alternatives on the market today. Aerospike was pitted against Apache Cassandra and MongoDB; Couchbase Server was also supposed to be on the list, but Thumbtack apparently encountered ...
HortonWorks Updates HDP: More Metrics on Hand, Less Manual Monitoring
HortonWorks introduced the latest release of its open Hadoop distribution yesterday morning. Version 1.2 features several major features and improvements, including the addition of Ambari. Apache Ambari is a provisioning and monitoring utility for Hadoop clusters. The web-based tool displays usage and performance metrics that can come in very handy when troubleshooting technical difficulties in ...