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Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop distros, cloud analytics and everything in between
This week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference saw the usual slew of Big Data announcements from around the industry, but a handful of vendors managed to stand out from the crowd despite the overwhelming buzz. The first is Hadoop distributor MapR, which unleashed a string of new and updated products on day 1 of the Santa Clara ...
CloudPassage nets $25.5 million to meet demand for software-defined security
Security automation specialist CloudPassage announced on Thursday that it has raised $25.5 million in a third round of funding led by existing backer Shasta Ventures, an early-stage VC notable for its investments in a number hugely successful tech firms including Mint and the recently acquired Nest. New investors Meritech Capital Partners and Seagate chief exec ...
Hewlett-Packard goes after BYOD with yet another corporate app store
Thursday morning, Hewlett-Packard unveiled an enterprise app store designed to give today’s increasingly mobile workforce unhindered access to company data across multiple devices while enabling CIOs to minimize the additional risk exposure. The solution supports both Android and iOS through native clients and includes a web interface for traditional desktops. HP Access Catalog is built ...
Google challenges Amazon RDS with Cloud SQL
More than four years after the launch of Amazon RDS, Google can now boast of having a database-as-a-service solution of its own. Released into general availability on Tuesday after an extensive test period, Cloud SQL provides a much-needed relational backbone for applications running on App Engine and GCE. The service supports databases up to 500 ...
VMware streamlines partner program to drive growth
Attendees at this week’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2014 in San Francisco were greeted with a number of welcome updates, including a major channel refresh meant to make things a little simpler for software vendors, service providers and distributors selling virtualization software. “The enhancements we are making to our award-winning partner program are designed to ...
MapR laps ahead of rivals with SQL query + YARN backward compatibility and more
MapR has established itself as a frontrunner in the race to deliver the first truly enterprise-ready Big Data platform by diverging from the traditional open source approach to Hadoop, earning the scorn of rivals and others in the community. But by adding value-added features not supported directly in the batch processing platform, the firm has ...
Big Data apps + cloud steal the spotlight : Strata day 2 | #BigDataSV
The O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara is abuzz with the promise of making analytics power more accessible than ever before through new applications of Big Data. Tresata, the brainchild of former Bank of America data science chief and theCUBE regular Abhishek Mehta, is leading the way with a new software solution that runs on ...
Brocade reiterates support for Gen 6 FC + adds flash qualification program
Storage switch and router maker Brocade has started developing SAN solutions based on the sixth-generation Fibre Channel (FC) standard, which was officially announced on Tuesday by the FICA industry association. Fully backward compatible with the previous two releases, the specification doubles the throughput of Gen 5 FC to 32Gbps and can be configured to provide ...
Couchbase updates NoSQL database with new enterprise features | #BigDataSV
Couchbase, the startup behind the open source database of the same name, released a new version of its commercial offering that better addresses the availability requirements of mission-critical workloads. The announcement comes less than six months after the company raised $25 million in Series D funding from Adams Street Partners and existing investors to drive ...
Strata Conference day 1 : Making the database more accessible to users | #BigDataSV
The Strata Conference is now in full swing with a flurry of announcements from the biggest names in analytics. A major theme of this year’s event is making insights more consumable for business users, a challenge that Paxata is addressing with patent-pending technology for transforming raw data into information that can be used by front-end ...