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Cassandra Propelled Forward by Determined Community
Cassandra is a NoSQL database management solution that spawned out of Facebook’s internal IT a couple years ago, and has built up a lot of momentum ever since. Last month theCube attended the Cassandra Summit, and Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly wrote up an overview about the state of the project with some of his observations from ...
HP Has Big Plans for Virtualized Networking, Targets Cisco
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard is looking to take a bit out of Cisco’s pie with three upcoming tweaks to its HP Converged Infrastructure that will introduce a strong software-defined networking component to the product line-up. The first two updates will be rolling out to HP’s 12500 Series data center switch. The first one due to launch ...
Big Data Startup ParStream Raises $5.6M
ParStream is a Germany-based big data team that was founded in 2008, and up until now ran on money from a few private investors including founders Michael Hummel and Jorg Bienert. This week the startup announced that it received an impressive $5.4 million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Baker Capital, Crunch ...
Revolution Analytics Expands into Asia Pacific
Revolution Analytics opened up an office in Singapore in order to gain a foothold in the Asia Pacific market. The Asian market is in a phase of very rapid growth, and other vendors such as EMC have also identified an opportunity to invest in the local sales channel. The Singapore outlet will serve as the ...
There’s an Analytics Market Growing Behind Your App Store
App Annie raised $6 million in a second round of funding led by Greycroft Partners with participation from existing backers .ventures, Infinity Venture Partners and a few other investors. The firm offers a set of solutions that can be labeled as Google Analytics for mobile. App Annie’s tools enable app publishers, platform owners and pretty ...
HP Reveals New Autonomy-Powered “Meaning” Platform
Hewlett-Packard has invested over $10 billion in British analytics firm Autonomy, and soon after that its software was integrated with Vertica infrastructure. The offering is touted as a hybrid platform that covers both unstructured and structured streams, and has faced some criticism along the way. This week HP reaffirmed its plans for its massive investment ...
Big Data Analytics? You’re Doing it Wrong [Report]
Business intelligence software maker Jaspersoft polled 600 community members on their organizations’ use of big data, and found some interesting patterns in the sector. The firm says that 62 percent of the respondents either already deployed a big data solution or plan to do so within a year’s time. Sixty seven percent of the participants ...
SDN Acquisitions Putting Pressure on Cisco, Traditional Networking
SDN is the concept of separating the software layer from the physical network and as a result facilitate much more efficient architectures and administration. It has been growing at a fairly moderate pace up until recently, when suddenly this trend seemed to have sparked an interest among some of the biggest players in the industry. ...
How One Outsourcing Company Thrives in a Down Market
Francisco D’Souzo is the chief executive of Cognizant, a New Jersey-based consultancy that is fairing very well in today’s somewhat volatile outsourcing market. He provided an insider’s perspective on the firm’s strong financial performance in a recent interview with Times of India. His company reported its earnings for the second quarter earlier this month, which ...
HP Offers Low-End, NonStop Server to New Audiences
Hewlett-Packard debuted a new addition to its NonStop high-availability servers line-up that comes in cheaper configurations in order to try and appeal to smaller customers. NonStop servers are used by financial services providers, telcos and other organizations that need their environments up and running even if a node fails. The NS2200, the smallest system in ...