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Syncsort adds native support for Spark and Kafka to help users modernize their analytics environments
A 2015 survey from Databricks Inc. found that Spark is quickly replacing MapReduce in Hadoop deployments, but adoption could be increasing even faster if not for the difficulty of upgrading. Syncsort Inc. is moving to ease the task for users of its DMX-h tool today by adding native integration with the engine that removes the ...
HPE launches IoT platform to help companies manage their connected devices
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making waves at IoT World 2016 in Santa Clara this week with a new management system designed to help companies process information from the connected universe. The Universal Internet of Things Platform, as the offering is called, promises to streamline every major step of the analysis process starting from the initial ...
Amazon says its new deep learning library is 2x faster than Google’s
Though Amazon Inc. doesn’t make a habit of sharing its internally-produced software with the outside world, the large number of fellow web giants that had open-sourced their deep learning technology in recent months has apparently prompted a change of heart. And so the company quietly joined the fray yesterday with the release of a C++ ...
Weaveworks nabs $15M from Alphabet’s GV and Accel to simplify container networking
As container adoption continues to soar in the enterprise, so is the amount of venture capital being showered on the startups trying to monetize the trend. The funding tally increased once again this morning after Weaveworks Inc. announced that it’s raised $15 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV (formerly Google Ventures) and growth equity powerhouse Accel ...
Docker launches a cloud-based security service for analyzing container images
The number of container startups to have announced major funding or product updates in the past 24 hours jumped to four this morning after Docker Inc. launched a new paid security add-on for its code hosting service. Born from an internal effort dubbed Project Nautilus that was first revealed last year, the addition is designed to help ...
Low-profile DNS powerhouse Dyn raises $50M to push ahead of rivals
For a company with over a million paying customers, Dynamic Network Services Inc. (better known as Dyn) has been keeping a very low profile. But that is set to change as the website performance specalist moves to step up marketing efforts using the $50 million in funding that it’s raised from Pamplona Capital Management today. ...
Chinese investor leads $20M round into container orchestration startup Rancher
It’s apparently not just Silicon Valley investors who are excited about the fast-growing adoption of containers in the enterprise. China’s GRC SinoGreen was this morning named as the lead contributor to a $20 million funding round in Rancher Labs Inc., a startup that helps automate the management of large-scale Docker clusters. Its namesake orchestration software ...
Challenging GE and Bosch, Hitachi unveils homegrown Internet of Things platform
A little over a year after announcing plans to harness the vast amounts of data coming off the connected universe, Hitachi Ltd. is delivering on the promise with the launch of a homegrown analytics platform called Lumada. The move adds its name to the long list of global industrial giants that hope to become more ...
Wikibon explains the appeal of Oracle’s SPARC M7 chips
Given Intel Corp.’s near-complete dominance of the server processor market, it’s tempting to dismiss alternatives like the SPARC series from Oracle Corp. as hopeless underdogs. But while they may have fit that description until recently, Wikibon co-founder David Floyer says the situation is starting to change thanks to the convergence of two major trends in the ...
CoreOS gets $28M to fuel its fight against Docker
Another week, another container startup announcing a big round of funding. San Francisco-based CoreOS Inc. has secured a $28 million investment from a group of high-profile backers led by Alphabet Inc.’s private equity arm, GV, to promote its implementation of the lightweight virtualization technology. The cash infusion represents the latest milestone in its rapid rise to ...