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WANdisco takes version control to the next level with SVN MultiSite 1.2
WANdisco, a provider of high availability solutions that’s making a name for itself in the Big Data space, is now simplifying version control for geographically dispersed teams with SVN MultiSite Plus 1.2. Like the company’s Non-Stop Hadoop offering, which recently got certified for Cloudera’s CDH4 distro, the software leverages homegrown active-active replication technology to make ...
MuleSoft beefs up Cloud integration service with enterprise features
MuleSoft, a San Francisco-based API connectivity startup, has updated its CloudHub service to provide better support for enterprise use cases that involve both in-house infrastructure and off-premise applications. The new release of the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering packs a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) option that provides an isolated environment encrypted by a ...
Dell funnels $16M into end-point security startup
Invincea, a cyber security vendor that focuses on combating zero-day attacks, has received $16 million in equity from Dell Ventures and Aeries Capital. Existing backers Grotech Ventures, Harbert Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures also participated in the round, which brings in the firm’s total funding to an impressive $26.2 million. The Series C investment was ...
QLogic certifies adapters for software-defined storage
The emerging software-defined storage space hit a new milestone on Tuesday after QLogic announced that it has added support for DataCore’s SANsymphony-V virtualization offering. Pegged as the “first, and only, true storage hypervisor,” the platform aims to streamline operations through improved manageability. QLogic’s FlexSuite 2600 16Gb Gen 5 Fibre Channel adapters and FabricCache 10000 Series ...
HP expands HAVEn ecosystem
Hewlett-Packard entered the Big Data platform race in June with HAVEn, an integrated offering that combines Hadoop with technology from Vertica and Autonomy in a unified platform for analytical applications. It features more than 800 connectors for structured, multi-structured, and unstructured data sources, as well as expanding software ecosystem that returned to the limelight at ...
0xdata extends Hadoop abstraction layer with Scala support
Abstraction is key to effective enterprise analytics, with most companies unable or unwilling to hire a team of statisticians possessing the necessary know-how to make sense of their massive data troves. An emerging startup called 0xdata is trying to fill this talent gap with a unique machine learning platform that abstracts the complexity of MapReduce ...
Datameer raises $19M to keep up with “exploding” demand
Datameer, a provider of data analytics solutions for business users, announces this morning that it has bagged $19 million in a Series D financing round led by Next World Capital, an expansion-stage VC that that also backs Cassandra distributor DataStax and hybrid array maker NexGen Storage. Workday, Software AG and Citi Ventures also participated, alongside ...
IBM wins cloud security patent 1 day after getting hit by privacy lawsuit
In an ironic twist of fate, IBM announced that it has patented a new technique for detecting and blocking malicious code a day after being slammed with a lawsuit over its ties to the NSA’s espionage operations, which involve – among other things – the use of sophisticated malware. Big Blue’s newly received U.S. Patent ...
AWS and hyperspecialization: the more the better
Infrastructure is the secret to Amazon’s cloud dominance, so naturally the company has kept quiet about it. But last month at re:Invent 2013, vice president James Hamilton, an early advocate of commodity hardware who helped architect Microsoft’s data centers, opened up about the technologies that enable AWS to disrupt the economics of IT at petabyte ...
Amazon chooses Cloudera for stream analytics
Amazon has added support for Cloudera’s open source Impala project to its cloud-based Hadoop distro as part of a push to help customers gain faster insight into their growing troves of unstructured information. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) had previously only worked with Hive, an abstracted warehousing layer that Facebook cooked up back in 2009 to ...