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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 …
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 …
What you missed in Cloud: Applications come first
Last week saw the rivalry among the giants of the infrastructure-as-a-service world intensify even further after the release of several new price cuts and features from Amazon Inc., most notably an option for customers to use their own encryption keys for data in its …
Amazon’s new M4 general-purpose instance packs up to 40 cores
For Amazon Inc., infrastructure-as-a-service is not just about chasing Moore’s law. The latest proof of that came this week in the form of a new iteration of its general-purpose instances that propels the core count deep into double-digit territory and upgrades the …
Microsoft adds Linux monitoring to Azure in continued open-source push
Whatever trace of doubt that there may have remained about Microsoft’s commitment to Linux in the open-source ecosystem is now likely gone following the addition of a free monitoring utility to its public cloud for tracking the activity of instances running the operating …
SolidFire beefs up its flash arrays with new data services
Flash arrays may be miles ahead of their disk-based predecessors when it comes to performance, but there’s still a lot of catching-up to do up the stack in the software layer, at least for some of the newer players that haven’t had …
Cisco flaunts new switches and hybrid cloud capabilities at Live 2015
Hot on the heels of the big launches from HP and Nutanix Inc. at their respective events, it’s now Cisco Systems Inc.’s turn in the spotlight with the introduction of new solutions on the second day of its Live conference that bring …
Google open-sources homegrown SDN configuration tech
While the stated goal of the software-defined networking movement is shifting managment up the stack, it’s also driving significant changes at the bottom layers, where Google hopes to enable some much-needed standardization with an internally-developed configuration model that it’s now releasing for free. …
Pivotal supercharges its Big Data Suite with Quickstep acquisition
While the analytics community has its attention turned away towards Hadoop Summit 2015, Pivotal Software Inc. is acquiring a little-known startup called Quickstep Technologies, LLC in a small but strategic deal that could provide its relational database with a much-needed needed performance …
Rancher Labs bags $10 million for its jack-of-all-trades container platform
The answer to the fragmentation of the container ecosystem may have finally arrived from Rancher Labs Inc., which raised $10 million in funding this morning to combine operational features currently scattered among numerous different projects into a unified platform. At the center …