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Nginx Inc. is augmenting the commercial version of its widely-used Web server with new functionality meant to help organizations address the growing demand placed on their cloud applications. The most significant improvement is under the hood, in the way that traffic is …
IBM puts Watson on course to revolutionize health care
IBM is setting out to create yet another cloud-based incarnation of Watson that will collect and analyze data from every corner of the medical field to help promote the development of new healthcare services. The task of building the platform has been …
RethinkDB releases first production version of its real-time database
The competition in the data management world is moving up yet another notch with the release of what is touted as the first production-ready release of RethinkDB, the open-source document store from the startup of the same name. The launch brings the …
Stack Overflow’s record-shattering developer survey sheds new light on the state of coding
Professional programmers are mostly self-educated, love their work and make comfortable salaries, particularly if they work with hot languages like Objective-C, Node.js and C#. They are overwhelmingly male, although there is some evidence that is changing, and they make an average of …
Teradata’s new Hadoop-based engine finds patterns in data deluge
There is a dizzying array of free and commercial business intelligence components available for Hadoop, but Teradata Corp. thinks that the industry could do with another one. The data warehousing stalwart’s new entry into the space promises to make short work of …
Amazon’s new machine learning service turns ordinary developers into data scientists
Following in the footsteps of its rivals, Amazon Inc. is launching a new cloud-based machine learning service meant to help automate the process of parsing the vast amounts of data produced on the Web. The target audience are the developers building the …
What you missed in Big Data: New beginnings
Last week saw the competitive lines of the analytics ecosystem redrawn once again after Informatica Corp. agreed to leave the stock exchange in a $5.3 million buyout representing the biggest transaction of its kind this year. The landmark deal marks a new …
What you missed in Cloud: Evolutionary change
The competitive focus in the public cloud switched gears from revolutionary to evolutionary advances last week as the big players brought their capabilities up to par with the latest trends. Microsoft Corp. set the wheels in motion after launching a data-driven security …
How containers complete Microsoft’s grand cloud strategy
Six months after revealing plans to bring containers to Windows, Microsoft Corp. is making good on the promise with a homegrown implementation of the lightweight virtualization format that offers a convenient new deployment option for enterprise applications. But the impact of the …
Tintri augments its storage stack for better DevOps
Tintri Inc. is rolling out a major update to the software powering its hybrid storage arrays that introduces new capabilities for fine-tuning operations in large virtual environments. One of the most notable additions is an optional extension that takes advantage of the …