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Dell launches beefy new PowerEdge servers with Intel’s latest Xeon chips
Processors may not be getting faster at the same rate they once used to, but data center suppliers are nonetheless continuing to push the envelope on performance. Dell Inc. this morning unveiled a new line of PowerEdge machines that incorporate Intel Corp.’s latest Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips to provide a 20-30 percent speed improvement over ...
Microsoft to open-source newly acquired Xamarin’s cross-platform dev tech
The developer community was caught entirely off guard in November of 2014 when Microsoft Corp. abruptly announced that it’s open-sourcing its popular .NET application framework for Windows. Six quarters and countless code contributions later, however, it should come as much less of a surprise that the software giant is releasing the core components of Xamarin under ...
HPE’s latest servers pack a new kind of memory that can retain data even after outages
The new ProLiant Gen9 models that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching this morning aren’t like most other servers. Instead of just including a few traditional DRAM cards under the hood, the vendor has decided to add the option of fitting the motherboard with a novel type of memory that is described as both faster and ...
MapD unveils a GPU-powered database for running complex visualizations
The need for faster access to business intelligence is reshaping analytics environments all the way down to the hardware level. On the storage side, modern number-crunching systems like Apache Spark keep records in memory instead of disk to improve query performance. And a startup called MapD Technologies Inc. now hopes to drive a similar shift ...
LinkedIn’s newest open-source tool will crash your application to test its resilience
Practically every important application in the enterprise today comes with safeguards designed to protect against common technical problems like server outages. But there’s often a big difference between how a service is expected to handle an issue and how it does so in practice, which requires organizations to painstakingly test for any weak points that ...
IBM wants to let companies run Spark on their mainframes
Talk about old meets new. At the Strata + Hadoop World summit this morning, IBM Corp. pulled back the curtains on a software bundle aimed at making it more feasible for organizations to run Apache Spark on their System z mainframes. Although it may seem like an unusual combination at first, the company believes the ...
Virtual Instruments and Load DynamiX merge, raise $20M to form new monitoring juggernaut
To combat increasing competition from cloud-based monitoring providers, Virtual Instruments Inc. and Load DynamiX Inc. have signed a merger agreement will see their assets combined under the former’s name. The new outfit is poised to hit the ground running thanks to $20 million in funding courtesy of growth-stage fund HighBar Partners and three other institutional ...
Pyze exits stealth with a BI service for the mobile era
A Redwood City startup called Pyze Inc. is adding its name to the lengthy list of contenders in the mobile analytics market today with the launch of a new business intelligence tool for Android and iOS developers. The service can aggregate activity data from an application in a visual dashboard that makes it possible to ...
Controversial ODPi specification launches to rein in the Hadoop ecosystem
A year after 14 of the biggest names in the Hadoop ecosystem joined forces to try and harmonize the vast array of disparate technologies that make up the platform, the first version of their project plan has been released. The ODPi Runtime Specification lays out what the group sees as the key ingredients that a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Analytics-as-a-service gaining steam
The ease with which an infrastructure-as-a-service deployment can be scaled makes the public cloud a prime candidate for hosting analytic applications that have to process massive amounts of information. Google Inc. last week moved to make it simpler for customers to take advantage of the benefits with the release of a managed machine learning service for developing data crunching ...