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Hortonworks Brings in eBay’s Data Expert as Hadoop Distros Demand Best of Breed Execs
Fresh of a big week of forward-thinking developments and a strategic partnership with Microsoft at Strata, Hortonworks just announced that it has appointed Bob Page as its new vice president of products. The release can be found here. Page has 17 years of experience in the analytics business. He founded a web analytics firm in ...
Violin Memory Prices New PCIe Chip to Win, Teams with Toshiba to Streamline Supply
It’s turning out to be a big week for flash. Violin Memory, one of the largest suppliers of SSD-based storage solutions, announced a new product line-up called Velocity. The lineup features three PCIe server cards with 1.37, 2.75, 5.5 and 11TB of raw storage. Now for the specs. Sustained performance using 4KB blocks measures at 120,000 ...
Seagate Pulls the Plug on Disk Lineup as Flash Performance Proves Better
Seagate just announced that it will stop producing of 7200RPM 2.5 inch disk drives. The manufacturer’s high-end Momentous 7200.4, 7200.2, Momentus Thin 7200, and Momentus XT drives will no longer by the end of this year. “We are going stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013,” said David Burks, ...
EMC the Only Big Player to Truly “Get” Big Data
And the Oscar goes to…Hadoop! The promising technology behind Big Data’s unwavering buzz was in the spotlight for an entire week during the Strata Conference last month, and now that we’ve had time to wind down from the festivities, we can reflect on Hadoop’s starring role in the enterprise. Abhishek Mehta, the founder of Tresata, recapped the ...
Cloud Wars: VMware Steps Up Its Campaign against Amazon
There’s a tug of war over the enterprise cloud. On one side is VMware with its licensed, private cloud offering, and on the other is Amazon, with its cost-efficient set of public cloud services. AWS is gaining a lot of traction with corporate users, thanks to a combination of a solid pitch and “rogue IT” – the name ...
Big Data “Doubts Turned into Big Data Deals” at Strata 2013
It’s funny how much life can change in just one short year. Twelve months ago the world was still grasping the concept of Big Data, exploring its applications and use cases. In 2013 many doubters have come full circle, not only excited about Big Data, but finding innovative ways to make it work in the ...
Hobbit, Game of Thrones Spur Hollywood’s Latest War Against YouTube
John Casaretto appeared on NewsDesk earlier to discuss the latest copyright infringement news from Hollywood with our host, Kristin Feledy (full video below). Earlier this week, Warner Brothers Studios sent Google a takedown notice for an app called “Hobbit 3D Wallpaper HD.” The application, as the name would suggest, contains unauthorized snapshots from the studio’s hit ...
Hadoop Overdose @ Strata: This Week in Big Data
The OReilly Strata Conference was this week’s big data epicenter. Several noteworthy companies attended the gathering, a few of them launched new Hadoop distributions, and many others announced specialized solutions designed to either run or supplement all this new software. Cloudera unveiled a new version of its flagship enterprise management suite, Cloudera Enterprise. The bundle ...
The FCC in Favor of Jailbreaking, Against DMCA
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, bans consumers from jailbreaking their phones – or at least, that was the plan. According to SiliconAngle contributing editor John Casaretto, the law is not only ineffective but also harmful to both consumers and innovation. He shared his take on the legislature during a Thursday NewsDesk segment with ...
PaaS on the Rise, webOS Dumped on LG: This Week in the Cloud
This past week Rackspace announced two major updates, Continuuity intrudes the market with new software, and Hewlett-Packard finally got rid of webOS. Rackspace lowered its storage rates by 33 percent and promised to roll out tiered pricing for its OpenStack services. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante believes that the cloud host is “trying to turn the crank” ...