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The beginning of the end for MapReduce? MapR debuts Apache Spark distro
While MapReduce still enjoys widespread use in the Hadoop ecosystem, the number of new deployments that are being brought online is declining. And the trend has not gone unnoticed by the vendors that make their living selling commercial versions of the software. At MapR Technologies Inc., the leadership team is already refocusing its growth plans ...
Former NASA chief’s startup exits stealth with a 256-core machine learning chip
Daniel Goldin has an impressive resume. The 75-year-old spent over a quarter century in the aerospace industry during the first leg of his career, went on to become the director of NASA and is now returning to the fold as the head of a newly launched startup. KnuEdge Inc., as the outfit is called, hit ...
What you missed in Big Data: The many languages of analytics
Analytics vendors are providing their users with more and more ways to manipulate data in a bid to stand out from the competition. Last week saw Alphabet Inc. join the fray by rolling out a new time-based partitioning feature for BigQuery, its hosted data warehousing service, that makes it possible to run a query only against ...
What missed in Cloud: Aggressive growth
The industry’s top cloud providers are expanding aggressively to try and capture a bigger slice of the market for off-premise technology resources. DigitalOcean Inc. set the pace last week after launching a new data center in Bangalore to make its infrastructure-as-a-service platform more appealing to Indian organizations. The main benefit of the ability to host application ...
Data visualization giant Qlik to go private in $3 billion buyout
After six years on the stock market, Qlik Inc. is preparing to become a private company again. The transition was set into motion this week after the data visualization vendor accepted a $3 billion buyout offer from Thoma Bravo LLC, a prolific private equity fund with a particular interest in the tech sector. The firm previously ...
EMC’s newest open-source project attempts to unify storage access for containers
The growing vendor support for containers is a double-edged sword. On one hand, users have access to an ever-broadening selection of complementary technologies, but on the other, the trend is making it difficult to keep up with the pace of change. The issue is particularly noticeable on the storage side, where EMC Corp. now hopes ...
IBM taps Cisco to deploy Watson at the edge of the network
IBM Corp.’s Watson system has come a long way since its public debut on CBS’ Jeopardy! in 2011. Organizations now have access to several cloud versions of the artificial intelligence, on-demand APIs, and they will soon be able to take advantage of its capabilities at the edge of the network as well. Big Blue plans to ...
IBM launches system for building and managing data lakes
The growing interest in so-called data center operating systems such as OpenStack and Mesosphere Inc.’s DCOS has spurred IBM Corp. to join the fray today with its own automation platform. Dubbed Spectrum Conductor, the software promises to do away with much of the duplicate componentry and expenses that burden IT departments. According to the vendor, ...
HPE’s newest tool helps companies avoid data-related legal issues
As if collecting and processing unstructured data isn’t difficult enough, companies must also ensure that they’re doing so in accordance with privacy laws, which vary based on the type of information being handled and its geographic origin. Meeting every regulatory requirement that applies to an organization often poses a major logistical challenge as a result. ...
Salesforce.com gobbles up e-commerce giant Demandware for $2.8BN
Salesforce.com Inc. has the e-commerce market in its sights. The cloud giant jumped into the ring this morning after signing an agreement to acquire Demandware Inc., a publicly-traded provider of online retailing software, for about $2.8 billion. The sum breaks down to $75.00 per share, which represents a generous 56.3 percent premium over the stock’s Tuesday ...