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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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” …
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 …