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Hortonworks buys the startup behind the NSA-developed Apache NiFi to target IoT data
Hortonwork Inc.’s latest acquisition is bound to make some waves in the industry. The purchase follows the same pattern as the previous two, a small startup that has been in operation for barely a few quarters, but the technology Onyara, Inc. is commercializing dates back nearly a decade to the National Security Agency. Development on what ...
Intel pumps $20 million into BlueData to promote Hadoop virtualization
The complexity often cited as one of the main factors behind the slow adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise encompasses not only the difficulty of putting the analytics framework to use but also the challenges involved in setting up the supporting infrastructure below. That’s what BlueData Inc. hopes to address with the help of $20 ...
What you missed in Big Data: A new foundation
The meteoric increase in the amounts of data entering the corporate network is raising the need for organizations to modernize not only the systems in which that information is stored but also the supporting infrastructure below. That’s what Cisco Systems Inc. set out to help facilitate through a collaboration with Basho Technologies Inc. announced last ...
What you missed in Cloud: Old meets new
The cloud took another twist on its evolutionary path last week after Microsoft Corp. pledged to bring one of the open-source community’s most promising management projects to Windows as part of its efforts to address the spread of the infrastructure-as-a-service model behind the firewall. The integration is a natural continuation of its earlier plans to ...
Target pays out another $67 million to settle 2013 mega-breach
The historic breach that saw hackers steal the personal data of as many as 110 million Americans from its point-of-sale systems two years ago continues to haunt Target Corp., which has agreed to a $67 million settlement in order to put the ordeal in the past. The move takes a key plaintiff out of the picture after ...
Salesforce.com maintains breakneck growth in the second quarter as cloud demand soars
One of the few highlights in what has been one of the worst weeks for the Dow Jones Industrial Average so far this year was a three percent jump in the share price of Salesforce.com Inc. after the release of a predictably steller second quarter earnings report. Demand for its cloud services soared 24 percent ...
NetApp sees revenue plummet in Q2 amid declining disk demand
While new-generation array makers such as Nimble Storage Inc. are growing their revenues in the high double digits on the back of the soaring demand for flash, NetApp Inc. has found itself caught in the backwind. Sales of its traditional disk systems tanked 27 percent in the second quarter on a year-over-year basis to $664 ...
Analytics startup Mode bags $7.5 million to make data visualization more collaborative
Whenever the topic of analytics use in the enterprise is brought up and the challenges of adoption inevitably follow, priorities like simplicity, speed and the importance of supporting new kinds of data more effectively come to mind. But mentioned much less often is the need to help the people handling that data work better together, ...
Tintri launches a hyperconverged platform to expand the appeal of its new flash arrays
It’s not the first nor likely the last storage vendor to move into hyperconverged infrastructure, but Tintri Inc.’s jump aboard to the bandwagon is bound to make waves all the same. The integrated platform that it’s rolling out this morning is meant to broaden the appeal of the new arrays debuted in conjunction. The VMstore ...
The Linux Foundation launches a new initiative to foster security in the open-source community
In theory, the more people are involved in a software project, the lower chance of a vulnerability slipping through. But in practice, the open-source community suffers from a fair share of security issues that periodically rise to the surface like the Heartbleed exploit discovered last year, which The Linux Foundation hopes to address with a new initiative ...