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What you missed in Cloud: Boxes and containers
The past week saw the biggest names in the cloud return to the headlines with a series of landmark developments extending the reach of the on-demand model to new frontiers. Box Inc. led the charge with the release of a major upgrade to its platform that brings the focus to the financial services sector. The ...
Does the world need another IoT data platform? HP thinks so
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest technology giant to stake a claim on the connected universe with the introduction of a cloud-based service for capturing data from emerging categories of networked devices. The launch represents the newest of its increasingly bold efforts to offset declining growth across traditional business lines. Revenues dropped nearly five percent ...
Box debuts new features and integrations for the financial services sector
Box Inc. is moving another notch down its checklist for industry-specific functionality with the introduction of new capabilities aimed at addressing the strict data management requirements of financial institutions. The launch marks the latest milestone in a long-running push toward vertical integration. The corporate file-sharing juggernaut’s journey to become more than just another horizontal storage ...
How PEFCU wards off hackers and hurricanes with EMC | #CubeConversations
Every organization faces challenges in protecting its data, but typically not as many as the Publix Employees Federal Credit Union (PEFCU) does. In addition to the usual worries about hackers and meeting the financial services industry’s strict regulations, the Lakeland, FL-based credit union also has to contend with Florida’s often-punishing hurricane season, which nearly destroyed ...
What eBay’s latest open-source project means for Hadoop
The last few months have seen eBay Inc. move from the sidelines of the open-source analytics ecosystem into the heart of the action with the introduction of two projects that push the envelope on large-scale data science. The pivot mirrors a broader shift in the ecosystem that the most recent of the additions accelerates. The ...
Docker launches container orchestration toolkit with Hadoop and OpenStack support
Docker Inc. is finally making its long-anticipated management technology available for download after three months of open-air incubation on GitHub. The launch marks another major step forward in the evolution of containers towards enterprise-readiness. One of the biggest benefits that the lightweight virtualization model offers over the conventional hypervisors dominating the enterprise today is the ...
Simplicity is the way forward for Hadoop | #BigDataSV
A decade after its release, Hadoop has finally taken off. The top three distributors boast several hundred paying customers each, with more and more coming aboard every quarter. But Lawrence Schwartz of Attunity Ltd. believes that the path towards mass adoption is far from straight. Speaking on theCUBE at the recent BigDataSV 2015 meet-up, the ...
Paradigm shift: How Apache Mesos is reshaping the data center into a giant PC
Most people couldn’t get much done on their computers without an operating system. Working the hardware directly would require the specialized knowledge and near-infinite patience to manually feed instructions to each processor on the motherboard in its specific language for every single action. It’s an impossible proposition. Yet the infrastructure professionals who keep the world’s ...
What you missed in Cloud: Everything-as-a-service
The on-demand model of the cloud is spreading to the farthest corners of the industry with increasing demand from organizations for greater flexibility in how they consume technology. The trend passed another milestone in its expansion last week as one of the top hosting providers in the Hadoop ecosystem revealed a pay-as-you-go implementation of Spark. The ...
EMC exec: Real goal of analytics too often lost in technology weeds | #BigDataSV
It seems that hardly a week goes by without the introduction of some new way to wrangle insights from data. That breakneck evolution has contributed much of the momentum behind the meteoric rise of analytics in the enterprise, but the constant technological change can distract from ultimate goal of analytics, which is to make more ...