Maria Deutscher
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The race to to the stock exchange in the Hadoop ecosystem is entering its second phase. A month and a half after Hortonworks Inc. became the first distributor of the data crunching framework to begin trading on the NASDAQ, the founder and …
Google takes on Amazon in its own back yard with new cloud monitoring service in a week
Days after launching a new service for tracking the performance of applications running on its public cloud, Google is rolling out another monitoring option that takes the fight against Amazon to an entirely new front: the retail giant’s own platform. Google Cloud …
Intel-backed consortium seeks to connect Internet of Things
After seven months of collaboration, Intel and its partners in the Open Interconnect Consortium are finally launching the initial release of their much-anticipated standard for machine-to-machine communications. The protocol is meant to allow the billions of connected devices set to fly out …
MongoDB seizes surging investor interest in NoSQL for another $80 million round
MongoDB Inc., the most well-funded startup in the NoSQL database world, has climbed higher still on the venture capital chart with a $80 million round that brings its total raised to nearly double that of itsnearest competitor. The funding round is a landmark …
Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction
New data from Deutsche Bank Group AG suggests that the explosive adoption of Hadoop will have a tangible impact on enterprise technology spending in 2015. The research counters some recent dour assessments of Hadoop’s enterprise-readiness and should put a smile on the …
Investors rain $40M on Ionic to build enterprise encryption solution
Ionic Security Inc. became the latest startup to catch the wave of investor interest in enterprise privacy protection on Tuesday after raising a healthy $40.1 million to lay down the groundwork for its imminent launch. The team hasn’t revealed much about exactly …
Gartner: Docker not ready for enterprise prime time quite yet
Linux containers are the service delivery mechanism of choice for many of the world’s top web companies, including Google, which employs the technology to serve up billions of application instances each and every week. But the paradigm is still a long way …
Citrix acquires Sanbolic to open new converged infrastructure front against VMware
Citrix Systems Inc. is apparently plotting an entry into converged infrastructure that could catch rival VMware Inc. off guard in the race to the software-defined data center. The company showed its hand on Monday by acquiring Sanbolic Inc. to fill the missing storage …
What you missed in Big Data: mining value from unstructured data
The enterprise analytics crowd kicked off the new year with a string of major developments aimed at addressing the explosion in use cases for unstructured data over the past 12 months. FoundationDB Inc. set the train in motion on Monday after revealing …