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The green side of the software-defined data center
Born-on-the-Web companies have already initiated a massive industry-wide shift toward virtualization and highly scalable open source platforms, but they’re also have an impact in a less-noticed area: power efficiency. Data centers are among the biggest electricity consumers on the grid, accounting for roughly three percent of energy demand in the US as of 2013. That ...
Forrester: HP a top supplier for private clouds in China
While it hasn’t made too big of a name for itself in the public cloud, the soon-to-split HP is a force to be reckoned with on the global map when it comes to private implementations, according to a new report from Forrester Research. That’s good news for the company as it comes under growing competition ...
Move over, Storm! LinkedIn’s Samza becomes full-fledged member of the Hadoop ecosystem
Four months after Storm, the first true stream processing engine for Hadoop, graduated from incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, Samza has followed suit to become a top-level project. The technology provides a potentially much more attractive option for analyzing real-time data that requires special handling. It’s possible to process that kind of fast-moving information using ...
CloudBees bags $23.5 million to monetize continuous integration buzz
CloudBees Inc. snagged $23.5 million in a fourth round of funding on Tuesday to fuel its newly-found focus on continuous integration, which has become one of the hottest movements in the development community with the rise of the hybrid cloud. The startup has become an unexpected champion of the trend. Former JBoss technologists Sacha Labourey ...
What you missed in Big Data: Moving beyond science project
The analytics ecosystem marked several major milestones along the journey to turn data insights into enterprise reality last week as vendors tore down more of the barriers holding back organizations from unlocking the value of their growing information troves. But it’s the Apache Software Foundation that made the biggest advance after inaugurating Falcon as a ...
Google launches a Docker registry for its public cloud
Google Inc. is continuing to push the envelope for containers with a new native registry service on its public cloud that enables developers to store the software needed for their Docker deployments in a centralized repository to provide for easy access to components. The launch comes hot on the heels of the search giant making ...
Report: Microsoft to revive Hadoop killer in cloud form
Microsoft’s long-discontinued efforts to kill Hadoop have not been in vain after all, according to a new report from veteran Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley. The homegrown alternative to the batch processing platform that the software giant developed until 2011 supposedly gave rise to an entirely new data crunching framework that is set to launch ...
What you missed in Cloud: Box IPO draws out competitors
The buzz surrounding the long-awaited public offering of file sharing powerhouse Box Inc. drew out the competition last week, which took advantage of the attention to boost their own visibility. Egnyte Inc. made headlines after unveiling a major upgrade to its rival platform that introduced an array of new automation capabilities for managing the flow ...
Acquisition of Revolution Analytics is a double win for Microsoft
Microsoft followed up its hologram-studded Windows 10 launch event on Friday with the equally significant acquisition of Revolution Analytics Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The landmark deal addresses two of Redmond’s most important strategic priorities. The eight-year-old Revolution Analytics commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over ...
Goldman Sachs bets $56 million on Antuit to tap Asia’s appetite for analytics
The analytics craze is under way in Asia, with help from one of the most powerful names in Wall Street. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. led a hefty $56 million funding round in a low-key number crunching company from Singapore on Wednesday that seeks to address the exploding demand for data insights on the world’s largest continent. ...