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Mark Himelstein Joins Hortonworks as VP of Engineering
Hortonworks, a Hadoop startup that was spun off from Yahoo, has hired Mark Himelstein as its new vice president of engineering. Hortonworks is amidst some rapid expansion thanks to a couple of recent initiatives, which is why this latest addition to its management team is particularly significant. “We believe that Mark’s presence will further accelerate Hortonworks’ ...
DDN Storage Fusion Gets Boost from IBM, New Offerings
Data-aware storage systems maker DataDirect Networks has expanded its big data appliance strategy with a new team-up with IBM. The Big Blue is consolidating its clustering solutions under a new name, the IBM Intelligent Cluster portfolio. Alongside the addition of new Ethernet switches, IBM is also offering DataDirect’s SFA 10K Storage Platform. “Often deployed in ...
New Relic Gets $15M for Performance Monitoring App
Software-as-service provider New Relic announced it has closed a $15 million round of funding led by DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group. Investors Allen & Company, Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Trinity Ventures also participated in the round. The company says it will use the capital to meet “overwhelming demand” from companies that are using ...
Apache Hadoop Update Marks Milestone for Ecosystem
This week, Hadoop received its first update in more than a year. Apache 0.23.0 features a number of new and extended functionalities including HDFS federation, which improves the data analytics engine’s ability to scale; and the rewritten MapReduce 2 that allows parallel apps to run on Hadoop while reducing bottlenecks associated with scaling. This is ...
Jaspersoft’s New Scholar Program Bridges Analytics Skill-Gap
BI software maker Jaspersoft has a new initiative: the Jaspersoft Scholars Program, which provides higher education institutions an opportunity to apply for a free license of the company’s commercial BI suite. In addition, training and other online resources are also provided to better educate students in their use of the software. “Eighty percent of students specialize in ...
DotCloud Cloud Adds Support for MySQL, MongoDB and Redis
DotCloud announced that its cloud management platform now supports three of the most popular databases used in cloud deployments: MySQL, MongoDB and Redis, a relatively new NoSQL database. DotCloud was founded in 2010 and launched less than half a year ago with support for 12 languages and databases. The company offers a platform-as-a-service to simplify ...
QLogic Latest IT Firm to Buy Back Stock
Networking gear vendor QLogic is the latest tech company that announced a stock buyback recently. In a press release that went out today, QLogic confirmed that its board has authorized a repurchase of $200 worth of its own shares over the period of the next two years. This news follows a couple of major updates ...
Quantum Updates Disk, Tape Offerings
Quantum announced the latest versions of its DXi8500 disk system and the Scalar i6000 tape library, as well as its Quantum Vision storage and backup analytics tool. DXi8500 features the new DXi 2.1 software, which the company claims makes its offering the “the fastest and highest-capacity single deduplication appliance.” It can scale from 40 to ...
AMD Challenges Intel with New Chip, Rapid Expansion
It seems some of the major storage vendors are starting to look beyond Intel. The chipmaker has some very ambitious plans to expand in areas where its market share is relatively small (namely mobile), though it’s seeing competition heating up in its home turf at the same time. This week Advanced Micro Devices debuted the ...
ScaleXtreme Adds to Cloud Management Platform
ScaleXtreme has launched Dynamic Server Assembly into general availability, a new feature that’s now included in its ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert cloud software. The solution, which is available in both a free and a premium edition, aims to help companies provision and run cloud deployments across a number of cloud service providers as well as in-house facilities. It ...