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Tamr raises $25.2 million from HP and friends for its data lake antithesis
Hewlett-Packard is among the main proponents of creating so-called data lakes in the enterprise to consolidate disparate records for more efficient analysis, but that hasn’t stopped its investment arm from backing an emerging startup called Tamr Inc. that’s trying to sell CIOs on the exact opposite approach. Instead of centralizing the information itself, its namesake ...
The container front heats up as EMC throws its weight behind Flocker
Somewhat atypically for an open-source project, the first major release of Flocker is rolling out without bringing any major new capabilities to the table. But the update includes something of arguably much greater significance for the long-term prospects of the volume management tool: the support of the world’s top storage vendor. Flocker 1.0 adds integration with two of EMC’s ...
Identity manager anchors VMware’s mobility strategy
Virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. on Tuesday laid out its enterprise mobile vision, roadmap and partnerships for what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger calls “business mobility.” “The IT environment is about bridging two worlds of cloud and the local client/server environments to enable business mobility as a new model of IT,” said Gelsinger in an event held at ...
Cohesity exits stealth with $70 million to converge secondary storage
Serial entrepreneur Mohit Aron is marking another milestone along his long career this morning following his newest startup’s launch from stealth to change how organizations manage the passive data taking up much of their storage capacity. Its plan for accomplishing that borrows a page straight from the book of the founder’s previous venture. Nutanix Inc., which Aron established ...
Vera launches metadata kill switch for Office 365
Securing the growing volumes of data that employees keep in cloud-based services such as Office 365 has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for CIOs, but it still pales in comparison to the difficulty of protecting those documents once they move elsewhere from there. That’s the problem Vera Inc. has now set its eyes ...
Vertical focus: MapR launches new specialized analytic workflows for Spark
The latest entry into the effort to simplify large-scale analytics has come from MapR Technologies Inc. in the form of new templates designed to automate the implementation of three key emerging use cases for Spark. The release tops off a tremendous show of support for the open-source data crunching engine in recent days. The biggest ...
Datto extends data protection to new frontiers in massive update
With the enterprise technology conference season now in full swing, Datto Inc. is seizing the moment to join the fray. The backup and recovery powerhouse unleashed a barrage of new updates at its annual partner meeting this morning that extend the reach of its data protection capabilities to the new systems and environments where organizations ...
Loggly adds derived fields to cloud-based monitoring service
The battle over machine-generated data is heating up with the introduction of an important new analytic capability from Loggly Inc. that promises to help administrators work faster through the vast and growing amounts of information coming off their infrastructure. It’s designed to provide a more productive alternative to manually looking for specific records. That has ...
IBM commits 3,500 engineers to Apache Spark
Between the new features and integrations introduced at its third annual community meetup this morning, Apache Spark is marking a landmark new endorsement from IBM, which has decided to back the project to the tune of over 3,500 engineers who will now actively participate in the development of new functionality. The opening contribution of the initiative is ...
What you missed in Big Data: Open-source power
The central role of the open-source movement in analytics rose back to the surface last week after LinkedIn Inc. released another one of its internally-developed data crunching technologies under a free license to help promote emerging use cases. And in particular, performing real-time business intelligence at the kind of scale where the traditional databases typically ...