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Rackspace Helps CERN Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
Rackspace has teamed up with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to develop a federation service that connects its platform-as-a-service solution with OpenStack and the Rackspace Private Cloud architecture. According to the company, its developers will collaborate with CERN’s openlab unit and a “full-time member of the CERN personnel team” to create a reference architecture ...
IBM to Make New York’s Lake George the “Smartest Lake” in the World
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Fund for Lake George commissioned IBM to build a sophisticated monitoring system that will help scientists gain new insights into the lake’s ecosystem. Big Blue said that it will provide the hardware, software and know-how needed to assemble a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at Rensselaer’s Margaret A. and David M. ...
Hadoop Summit Recap: Who Will Come Out Ahead in the Race to Zero?
TheCube stopped by Hadoop Summit in San Jose to bring you the latest news and analysis from the Big Data ecosystem. Near the end of Day 1, SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly assembled for a special discussion about the industry and the intense price competition in the Hadoop ...
CIOs Need to Become More Active, Visible to Fix IT
Bridging the gap between a company’s IT organization and business users is a daunting task, but not an impossible one. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, argues that it is within the CIO’s power to prove that IT is an “equal and capable business partner” so long as he or she receives a ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Amazon Hot on the Heels of Microsoft
This week, Microsoft announced that a leading provider of cloud-based automation software added its solution to the Azure marketplace, and Amazon revealed that it has allied with GE to analyze sensory data from a wide range of devices in AWS. WANdisco also got a spot in the limelight after it launched its S3-enabled analytics platform, ...
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s All About Abstraction (and Hortonworks)
The Big Data space saw a lot of activity this past week. Hortonworks nabbed $50 million from investors, Datameer unveiled software that can churn out insights faster than any data scientist, and Splunk introduced a tool that ingests information on the fly. Pentaho also grabbed a few headlines after it introduced a vendor-agnostic platform that ...
Stu Miniman on VMware’s Plan to Virtualize Hadoop
VMware is hoping to secure its place at the intersection of cloud and Big Data with Project Serengeti, a set of open-source tools designed to speed up the deployment of Hadoop in virtualized environments. At this week’s Hadoop Summit in San Jose, the company announced that the initiative is entering the next phase of its ...
WANdisco Brings Cloud Storage to Hadoop with WDD 3.6
Three months after introducing Linux support, WANdisco is unleashing an S3-enabled version of HDPS that brings public cloud functionality behind the firewall. WANdisco Distro (WDD) 3.6 supports all the features of Amazon’s popular file storage service, including searchable metadata tagging, snapshots, and data object versioning. The platform is compatible with the S3 API and packs ...
Hortonworks’ Funding Round a Win for the Ecosystem
Earlier this week, Hadoop distributor Hortonworks announced that it raised $50 million from Tenaya Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group and existing backers Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Yahoo. According to SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier, the round is a “big shot of adrenalin” for the Big Data industry. In Furrier’s view, the capital injection confirms that ...
Stamp of Approval from Oracle a Big Win for Hyper-V
Hyper-V, once considered an unworthy and incapable competitor to vSphere, recently gained an advantage over VMware’s platform in the form of Oracle support. On Monday, Larry Ellison’s firm announced that it has certified its Windows Server software lineup to run on the latest version of Microsoft’s hypervisor. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, ...