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The characteristically active analytics ecosystem went into overdrive for last week’s landmark Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 summit in New York to produce some of the most significant product updates in recent memory. Cloudera set the tone for the event the evening before …
Attunity marketing boss: Hadoop moving into the mainstream | #BigDataNYC
The burgeoning analytics ecosystem is at an important crossroads, not only in terms of the strategic shift towards the cloud among the top Hadoop distributors but also – and more importantly – in user adoption, according to Attunity Inc. marketing head Lawrence Schwartz. The …
Docker beefs up security in nod to enterprise developers
Docker Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake container engine that brings security to the fore for the first time since the project hit the scene a year and a half ago. Perhaps not coincidently, the launch follows hot …
Hortonworks adds object storage and spiffier query language to Hadoop
Hot on the heels of Cloudera Inc. upgrading its version of the batch processing framework, rival Hortonworks Inc. is following suite with a new version of its own distribution that focuses on many of the same core areas as its better-funded competitor. …
Cray unveils Hadoop supercomputer in surprising marriage of old and new
Bucking the notion that Hadoop has to be run on off-the-shelf commodity servers, supercomputer maker Cray, Inc. surprised attendees at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 summit with the introduction of an integrated high-performance computing appliance built specifically to run the …
HP extends OpenStack support to disaster recovery
Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday unveiled a series of enhancements to the disaster recovery component of its OpenStack-powered public cloud portfolio that are designed to make it easier for organizations to protect data stored on some of their less accessible – but nonetheless critical – …
Microsoft continues open source love affair with Apache Storm endorsement
Microsoft Corp., the poster child of proprietary software, has developed a sudden appetite for open-source technologies. Barely three days after revealing plans to make future versions of Windows Server compatible with the Docker container engine, which currently only runs on Linux, the Redmond …
Loggly raises $15 million to take the fight against Splunk up the stack
Analytics startup Loggly Inc. has raised another $15 million from a group of top investors to beat Splunk Inc. at its own game with a higher-level approach to uncovering useful patterns in the vast amounts of data coming off of technology infrastructure …
Red Hat and Cloudera join forces for Hadoop-on-OpenStack
Red Hat Inc. and Cloudera Inc. are teaming up to make it more practical for organizations to deploy Hadoop on OpenStack in a landmark partnership that takes advantage of the new capabilities included in the latest version of the open-source cloud operating …
Broadcom leaves Internet of Things group it helped found
Broadcom Inc. has quietly left a key industry consortium that is trying to bring much needed communications standards to the connected universe in what marks the first major setback on the long and predictably bumpy road toward universal interoperability. Broadcom was one of …