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Pentaho Teams with DataStax for Visualized NoSQL Analytics
Today Pentaho, a BI software maker, announced that it’s working on a joint solution with DataStax, the first commercial distributor of the Cassandra Hadoop connector. The main concept is to fuse Pentaho’s visualization and overall emphasis on UI simplification with DataStax’s open-source, NoSQL goodness. The Pentaho Kettle integration will make it easier for users of ...
VMware’s Latest Partnership Addresses Mobile Cloud Security
Security is one of the biggest barriers standing between the enterprise and some of the most disruptive trends in IT. Zettaset made this point rather clear when it launched a security package to go with its Hadoop management cloud, and now VMware is working with Symantec to achieve the same thing in the data center. ...
Infographic: Jaspersoft’s Hadoop Connector Roundup
Jaspersoft, a maker of big data-oriented BI software, released a new infographic it calls the Big Data Index – a list of all the top big data connectors, along with statistics and trends for the period between January 2011 and January 2012. Overall, Jaspersoft’s data says that over 15,000 connector downloads were record in those ...
Cloudera Steps Up Contributions to Big Data Ecosystem
Cloudera, the first commercial distributer of the Apache Hadoop data munching engine, announced that it had added a certification program that will run as an independent extension of Cloudera University. The company – currently busy making the most out of what can earnestly be called its head start in the industry – has been giving ...
Broadcom’s Android 4.0-Optimized Strategy Puts a System on a Chip
Networking gear and microprocessor maker Broadcom introduced a new system-on-chip (SoC) series for low-end Android devices at Mobile World Congress this week. A second line for commercial purposes was also unveiled. The Android Ice Cream Sandwich line is based on AMD’s Cortex single and dual-core 40-nanometer A9 designs. The BCM21654G offers performance of up to 1.0GHz, ...
Startup Specialist Andy Palmer Joins Cloudant Board
Cloudant, “the data layer as a service” company that offers hosting for CouchDB databases, in addition to a fork of the latter called BigCouch, announced the latest member of its board. Andy Palmer, known mostly for his role as the co-founder and CEO of Vertica up until it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard, is the newest ...
Outline of Hadoop’s Problems is Shortsighted
Jessica Vascellaro of WSJ published a piece in which she engaged the buzz around Hadoop from the opposite angle, highlighting some of the reasons the open-source parallel analytics platform may not be the universal cure of massive datasets. One of her main points is that the fact Hadoop is free doesn’t necessary translate into a ...
Strata Review: the Best of Big Data’s Maturing Ecosystem
The Strata Big Data conference begins tomorrow, so we decided it would be a good time to look back 12 months and observe the big data ecosystem then in context to where it is today. This particular industry, now easily worthy of this status when considering factors like funding and consumer adoption, is rapidly evolving. ...
Dell’s Software Buy Strengthens Storage Portfolio
Dell announced what is essentially its software group’s first acquisition: AppAssure, a maker of backup software solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but what we do know is that, unless Dell agreed to pay a particularly outrageous sum for the firm, AppAssure will likely prove to be a good investment in its own, ...
Tablet Business Apps for MWC 2012: NFC for iPad and Android
The 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will kick off Monday, and we’ll be covering it extensively. Expect several launches by the biggest brands in the mobile industry, as well as by smaller players trying to make the most out of the extra publicity, and a big portion of those launches will be new apps. ...