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Survey: 70 percent of IT pros prefer open source to proprietary software
An overwhelming majority of IT professionals favor open source software over proprietary alternatives, according to a new study from the Ponemon Institute conducted on behalf of Zimbra Inc., the enterprise collaboration provider. That mirrors a similar pattern among enterprise developers, over 80 percent of whom share that sentiment according to an earlier Forrester Research report. The ...
Splice Machine says it has world’s only relational DBMS running on Hadoop
After two years in development, Splice Machine Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s only Hadoop-based relational database management system (RDBMS) into general availability with the promise of providing a cheaper and more scalable alternative to the Oracle Corp. databases that have ruled the enterprise for the last few decades. While the idea of running ...
Salesforce.com expands beyond marketing with brand engagement platform
Salesforce.com Inc. is taking social media analytics beyond the marketing department with a new iteration of its Social Studio that promises to help professionals in other parts of the business gain a better understand of customers, too. The move follows barely a month after IBM teamed with Twitter Inc. to try to reach a similar ...
Cisco leverages Hadoop for latest contribution to open security framework
Although Cisco Systems Inc. is best known for selling proprietary data center switches, it also plays an active role in the open-source ecosystem, ranking as the sixth most prolific contributor to OpenStack and listing several community projects under its belt. The networking stalwart added another notch to its repertoire this week with the release of ...
CipherCloud scores $50 million to make the cloud safe for corporate data
CipherCloud Inc. became the second cloud security startup to announce an eight-figure funding round this week after revealing on Wednesday that it has raised $50 million from a group of prominent investors to make the public cloud safer for storing sensitive corporate data. The financing comes hot on the heels of Veradocs Inc. exiting stealth ...
Veradocs nabs $14 million to secure corporate data outside the firewall
The growing amount of corporate data moving outside the firewall to the cloud is making it more difficult than ever for CIOs to defend against security leaks, a challenge that Veradocs Inc. has taken upon itself to address once and for all. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with $14 million in funding to bring ...
Teradata and MapR ink sweeping Hadoop alliance
Teradata Corp. and MapR Technologies Inc. are joining forces to make their vision for Hadoop more appealing to organizations that are adopting the open source framework in pursuit of cost savings and better business insights. The collaboration builds on the existing integration between the firms’ respective platforms. Under the agreement, Teradata will expand its relationship ...
IBM touts collaboration platform as the reinvention of email
IBM is rolling out a new collaboration service that puts an analytic spin on the traditional email formula in a bid to help enterprise workers share information with peers more effectively. Hyped as a reinvention of email itself, the platform is the first fruit of the $100 million investment in user experience that the company ...
Facebook redefines data center design to support the next billion users
Facebook Inc. is marking the launch of its latest data center in the central Iowa town of Altoona by providing the public with a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the 140-megawatt facility, which implements a brand new network topography that replaces clusters with “pods” as the basic building block. The move to release ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hortonworks files for IPO and SAP gets vertical
No week passes without the data analytics space marking at least a handful of major milestones in its breakneck evolution, but this time around, it’s a truly historic occasion on the trend’s advance towards the enterprise. Hortonworks Inc. became the first Hadoop distributor to file for a public offering, beating Cloudera Inc. and MapR Technologies ...