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Data-driven applications returned to the headlines this week after Hortonworks announced that it will bundle the open source Cascading development framework into its flagship Hadoop distribution. Created and maintained by a company called Concurrent, Cascading is a Java-based abstraction layer that allows …
Weekly Cloud review: from containers to Hadoop-powered hybrid security
It’s been yet another eventful week in the cloud, with Amazon adding support for the open source Docker Linux containerization engine to its Elastic Beanstalk service, which is used by application developers to automate certain administrative tasks such as capacity provisioning and …
IBM pushes the envelope on open source with latest Power servers
A week and a half after IBM Cloud and Smart Infrastructure head Deepak Advani took to the stage at Red Hat Summit to detail how big of a role open source technology has in his company’s long-term vision, Big Blue is putting …
Brown University’s data protection journey: from one-size-fits-all to DR-as-a-service | #CUBEConversations
The disaster recovery landscape has changed considerably over the last few years as disk-based backup appliances slowly but surely displaced legacy tape in enterprise environments, a transition that Brown University’s Nancy Magers says has enabled her team to reduce hardware costs and …
We’re a partner in the industrialization of IT, says Red Hat CEO | #RHSummit
The Red Hat Summit is different than most other vendor shows in the sense that, although it naturally centers on the company and its particular vision for technology, it also places a large emphasis on the ecosystem. And that doesn’t just encompass …
FICO gobbles up Hadoop startup Karmasphere
A good few years into the Big Data revolution, the market is finally seeing some much-needed consolidation as the competitive swimming lanes begin to crystallize and those that are unable to keep up in the race either go out of business or …
HP revives “bulletproof” XP storage family with new system
Converged infrastructure and flash may be all the rage these days, but disk arrays still form the backbone of enterprise storage environments. And even as the information explosion continues to gather pace, strengthening that existing foundation is often preferable to embracing a …
Hortonworks boosts Concurrent team up for Big Data applications
The elusive promise of the Big Data app economy has inched a little closer to reality on Monday after Hortonworks expanded its partnership with Concurrent to package the startup’s Cascading development framework into its flagship Hadoop distribution. Available for free under an …
Key to Red Hat’s business is ambition for OpenShift, OpenStack| #RHSummit
Red Hat is not just a Linux company anymore. In the last few years the vendor has managed to extend its reach to every corner of the enterprise, from the network through the virtualization layer to the public cloud and beyond, while …
Straight from the source: Dell CTO details cloud roadmap | #RHSummit
The open source revolution is spilling over to the cloud as more and more incumbent data center vendors rally behind OpenStack in response to Amazon’s growing enterprise gains. Sam Greenblatt, the vice president of technology and architecture and CTO for Dell’s core …