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The NoSQL space became a little less crowded this week after Percona LLC acquired partner Tokutek, Inc. for its unique indexing capabilities. The deal marks the latest in a wave of consolidation that has swept over the world of non-relational data stores …
RetailNext takes home $125 million in growth funding to power tomorrow’s smart stores
Analytics may not have evolved far enough yet to capture the full complexity of the climate system, but the technology can help retailers figure out how weather changes will influence the shopping habits of their customers. That’s one of the many features …
Intel among investors in Cisco vets’ mysterious security startup
A stealthy startup called Skyport Systems Inc. received its first share of the limelight this morning after landing $30 million in funding from a group of investors by Index Ventures and including Intel Capital to drive a “fundamentally new approach to security”. …
Nginx 6 gives a DevOps leg-up to cloud applications
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 …