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VMware’s Former CTO Stephen Herrod on Software-Led Infrastructure: Fodder for His New Gig
General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage tech startups, nabbed VMware CTO and SVP of research Stephen Herrod. The Stanford-educated executive joined the virtualization giant in 2002, helping to spearhead his company’s development efforts while quickly climbing the corporate ladder. “Over the last 11 years, Steve Herrod has helped to ...
Tokutek Meets the Big Data Challenge, Doubles Users in 2012
MySQL developer Tokutek boasts that its customer base grew by 200 percent last year, a statistic it credits to rapidly accelerating adoption of its TokuDB database engine. The company landed lucrative deals with Evidenzia, Swaylo, SWRI and several other major corporations throughout the year. Demand grew so rapidly, in fact, that Tokutek had to hire ...
AMD Launches Facebook-Inspired Motherboard for Enterprise Workloads
AMD is rolling out a new motherboard designed to run inside specialized servers purpose-built for specific workloads. The Open 3.0 chipset, codenamed Roadrunner, couples speedy processes with design methodologies developed by one of the biggest web-scale companies around. The 16” x 16.5” board can fit into 1U, 1.5U, 2U or 3U servers and features two Opteron ...
MapR Launches Hadoop Ops in EMEA
MapR has opened a new office in London to serve as its European headquarters. The Hadoop distributor says that the outlet will provide more direct technical support and sales assistance to clients in the entire EMEA region. The man in charge of MapR’s UK HQ is Steve Jenkins, who talked a bit about the significance ...
Husband of Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Defends Her Actions on Twitter
The death of Internet prodigy Aaron Swartz has triggered a massive, viral protest that is still in full swing today. Mike Wheatly provided an elaborate breakdown of the circumstances that led up to Swartz’ apparent suicide last week. It all began when the Reddit co-founder was charged with downloading MIT’s JSTOR archive, a repository that contains several ...
Aerospike is 10x Faster than What You’re Using Now
Citing the results of a recent benchmark study conducted by Thumbtack Technology, NoSQL startup Aerospike boasts that its database offering is 10 times more powerful than the leading alternatives on the market today. Aerospike was pitted against Apache Cassandra and MongoDB; Couchbase Server was also supposed to be on the list, but Thumbtack apparently encountered ...
HortonWorks Updates HDP: More Metrics on Hand, Less Manual Monitoring
HortonWorks introduced the latest release of its open Hadoop distribution yesterday morning. Version 1.2 features several major features and improvements, including the addition of Ambari. Apache Ambari is a provisioning and monitoring utility for Hadoop clusters. The web-based tool displays usage and performance metrics that can come in very handy when troubleshooting technical difficulties in ...
Workplace Startup LiquidSpace Bags $6M
LiquidSpace pegs itself as a “professional workplace marketplace” acting as a broker that lets travelers rent cubicles and offices in the same manner they would book a hotel room. The startup operates across 50 locations throughout the U.S., and its catalog features 2000 listings that range from sub-$100 workspaces to luxurious offices you’d reserve for ...
CEO Pressure Forces Yahoo Chief to Jump Ship After e-Mail Security Fail
Yahoo chief information security officer Justin Somaini abruptly resigned this week, according to people familiar with the company. AllThingsD reports that the same sources believe his departure is the result of a poorly patched vulnerability in Yahoo Mail that allowed hackers to flood users’ inboxes with spam. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was brought aboard last year ...
Alibaba Founding CEO + Board Drop Out, Make Room for New Talent
Jack Ma, a former English teacher, is one of the richest men in China. The 49 year old entrepreneur is the mastermind behind Alibaba Group, a company that operates six of the most popular sites in China including Alibaba.com, Taobao Marketplace and Yahoo! China. Reuters reports that Ma is resigning from his post to assume ...