Maria Deutscher
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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 …
Criteo’s VP of Engineering on the Applications of MongoDB in Advertising
Julien Simon is the vice president of engineering for Criteo, a French firm that works with retailers to serve personalized banner ads to consumers. He recently stopped by theCube to discuss how his company uses MongoDB to turn petabytes of data into …
Cisco Injects Programmability into Networking Lineup @ Cisco Live
Cisco will support software-defined networking across its entire portfolio within the next 12 months, starting with the two new routers it unveiled at this week’s Cisco Live 2013 conference. The ISR 4451-AX is a high-performance branch platform that offers up to 2Gbps …
Datameer Simplifies Analytics with Self-Service Functionality
Datameer wants to make Big Data more accessible for decision makers with “Smart Analytics,” a set of self-service machine learning capabilities built into the newest release of its flagship solution. The toolset empowers users to “identify patterns, relationships, and even recommendations based …