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Zenoss updates monitoring solution to address root cause of downtime
Monitoring is becoming increasingly important for organizations as they expand beyond the firewall to the cloud in pursuit of cost savings and enhanced management flexibility. But there’s a catch: the many benefits of the hybrid cloud add complexity, making it more difficult for IT organizations to identify and resolve technical issues. Zenoss is tackling this ...
Cloud analytics takes center stage @ Big Data Week in NYC | #bigdataNYC
The next evolution of self-service analytics, cloud-based Hadoop is making a big splash at this week’s Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 summit in New York. Web hosting provider Rackspace was the first to jump on the bandwagon with a new service that lets users spin up and spin down Big Data clusters as needed. ...
The best of theCUBE: Ray Wang
SiliconANGLE and Wikibon have tracked the vendor ecosystem through changing market requirements and emerging technology trends, from the rise of social networking and mobility to cloud computing and Big Data. Constellation Research co-founder Ray Wang has followed us on this journey over the years, making regular appearances on theCUBE and sharing his insight into how ...
3 keys to rule Big Data economy : tech, people + culture | #BigDataNYC
The volume of information being stored and applied to business practices today continues to grow at an astonishing rate, with the digital universe set to expand more than 25 percent annually through 2012, according to research from EMC. Driven by the rapid adoption of connected devices and Big Data technologies, this trend is creating new ...
Pentaho Sets Big Data Priorities for 2014
With Big Data continuing an upward trend in the enterprise, decision makers are increasingly looking beyond traditional BI for operational visibility and competitive advantage. Not to be left in the dust, open source business intelligence firm Pentaho is shifting its focus to making information more consumable for end-users. The company hit its first major analytics ...
Weekly Cloud Review: On-Demand Hybrid Hosting and APIs
As data volumes continue to grow, the hybrid cloud becomes an increasingly attractive proposition for enterprises. Integrating on- and off-premise infrastructure enables CIOs to safeguard sensitive information behind the firewall while taking full advantage of the affordability and flexibility of the public cloud. But with most hybrid platforms, provisioning resources, enforcing policies and managing data ...
Weekly Big Data Review: From HDP to Next Gen BI
Hortonworks became the center of attention this week after upgrading its Hadoop distribution with a YARN-based architecture that lets enterprises store and manage all of their data in one place. HDP 2.0 achieves this by providing support for stream processing and rapid ad hoc analysis via Hive 0.12, a faster and more feature-rich fork of ...
Internet of Things Review: Tablets Are All the Rage
It’s been an exciting week for mobile enthusiasts on both the Apple and Microsoft camps, but it was the former that stole the stage with the iPad Air. The fifth generation tablet sports a cutting edge 64-bit A7 processor that provide twice the performance of its predecessor and 72 times the graphical horsepower of the ...
Weekly Security Review: Aaron Swartz’s Legacy and the Cyber Grand Challenge
Before his untimely death in January, hacktivist Aaron Swartz was working on an open source dead-drop tool that would enable journalists to securely accept documents from whistleblowers without exposing their identities. Continuing his legacy, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has recently taken over the project in an effort to solve the technical issues that ...
DataStax Snags Former Fusion-io CFO
Apache Cassandra distributor DataStax announced today that it has appointed Dennis Wolf as chief financial officer. The Silicon Valley veteran joins the company from flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io, which posted a first-quarter loss of $27.9 million, or 28 cents a share on Wednesday. Wolf brings more than 30 years of experience to the company. ...