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Cloudera Director 2.0 takes aim at off-premise Hadoop clusters
Running Hadoop outside the firewall is set to become much easier for customers of Cloudera Inc. thanks to a new iteration of its management automation framework that debuted this week. The release brings a hands-off provisioning feature that can spin up the hardware resources needed for a particular query and deallocate the infrastructure after the ...
Docker joins the unikernel bandwagon with new acquisition
Another year, another new trend entering the industry agenda. Docker Inc. set the wheels in motion this morning with the acquisition of Unikernel Systems Ltd, a U.K.-based startup founded by the original creators of the Xen hypervisor. Its namesake technology holds the potential to kick up the modularization of cloud services several notches. The unikernel is ...
Atlassian enhances its GitHub alternative to support distributed development teams
Atlassian Corp. plc has been at hard at work since hitting the stock exchange in December. The developer productivity powerhouse introduced a new iteration of its help desk software last week that promises to noticeably streamline technical support, and now it’s upping the ante on the code management front with the release of three major ...
Qubole secures $30 million to grow its Hadoop-as-a-service
As the venture capital community’s enthusiasm for cloud computing and analytics reaches new heights, the startups at the intersection of the two trends are reaping the rewards. The newest beneficiary is Qubole Inc., which raised $30 million in funding from private equity giant IVP and three existing backers this morning to widen the adoption of its ...
Intel builds powerful security into newest Core vPro processors
While business users may be spending a growing portion of their time on mobile devices, the desktop is still the workhorse of the modern office, and requires the security to match. Intel Corp. hopes to make it easier for organizations to maintain the necessary level of protection with the new generation of its Core vPro ...
Instart lands $45M to take its analytics-driven CDN global
Like so many other parts of the enterprise technology market, the content delivery segment is also experiencing a boom in startups seeking to change the competitive status quo. Three months after Teridion Ltd. existed stealth with $20 million in funding and a promise to make web services load up to 20 times faster than they do ...
JFrog, the GitHub of software artifacts, raises $50 million
There is more to software than just code. Modern application projects also incorporate a wide variety of other components ranging from documentation to data models that must be handled with the same priority. JFrog Ltd. raised $50 million in funding this morning to help organizations address this requirement with its artifact management service, which has quietly ...
Investors shower another $48.5M on Big Switch as SDN adoption takes off
Two months after rumors first began to emerge that it’s raising a significant new funding round, Big Switch Networks Inc. has officially announced the completion of a $48.5 million investment that doubles its total external financing to within touching distance of the nine figure mark. The capital infusion caps off an immensely profitable year for ...
Study: Spark tops analytics pros’ wishlists
Less than a month since the industry turned the page on its calendar, organizations already have their analytics priorities mostly figured out for the new year. A new poll of 250 data scientists, business intelligence specialists and other key members of the Hadoop ecosystem from Syncsort Inc. reveals that nearly 70 percent rank Apache Spark ...
What you missed in Big Data: Machine intelligence
Machine-generated data returned to the agenda last week after industrial heavyweight PTC Inc. and ServiceMax Inc. combined forces to give organizations much-needed visibility into the growing number of connected devices finding use throughout their operations. The duo is kicking off the effort with the introduction of a jointly-created tool that enables technicians to monitor for ...