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Microsoft Azure Cloud: Can They Compete with Google Compute Engine in a World of Cloud and Big Data
With the sweeping global tech impact of social, mobile, big data and cloud, it’s becoming rather clear that Google is poised to rock the cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market while Microsoft is pushing the Azure strategy as their alternative to the Amazon and Google cloud plays. Google announced at Google IO their Google ...
Analysis: Hortonworks Plays it Smart by Partnering for Mainstream Adoption
Much of the challenge for any early market player, particularly those in open-source software, is the ability to deliver solutions with broad appeal to mainstream customers in a timeframe that meets market demand. Hortonworks is doubling down on its Big Data market development and after just one-year of being in business is today showcasing its ...
Analysis: Hortonworks Puts Stake in Ground with New Hortonworks Data Platform – Focus on Big Deals and Ecosystem Growth
Hortonworks announces Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Hortonworks is including all the normal features around a distribution for Hadoop such as Pig, Hive, Ozzie, etc. The key features are the new things that they are providing as differentiators in their open source distribution. The new Hortonwork Data Platform key features include bundling of new software for provisioning, ...
Hadoop Open-Source Community Disrupting The Rapidly Growing Big-Data Market
The HBase conference (HbaseCon.com)in San Francisco was a gathering of the who’s who of open-source technical developers for the most advanced Big Data projects. These elite developers, architects, and open source contributors shared their development and operational experiences with using Hbase and Hadoop in both nonproduction and production environments. SiliconANGLE.com had the chance to cover ...
Mass Governor Creates Big Data Initiative Announces Supports for R&D and Big Data Incubator HackReduce
Governor Deval Patrick today announced the creation of the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, a number of steps and initiatives that will expand Massachusetts’ position as a world leader in the rapidly expanding Big Data sector. Massachusetts houses some of the biggest industries that can leverage so called “big data” – biotech, information technology, healthcare, academic, ...
Hbase Conference HbaseCon.com in SF – The Real Time Value Proposition
As SiliconANGLE is on the ground in Vegas covering #emcworld 2012 we will also be covering the historic first Hbase Conference in SF. This week introduces the first ever Hbase conference (Hbasecon.com) in SF and SiliconANGLE will be covering it live with a live broadcast of theCUBE. At the Hbasecon there will be all the ...
Facebook IPO Mania – Intoxicating Yet Elusive – Similar to the Netscape Moment for Silicon Valley; Bubble? No; Future Yes!
On the eve of the Facebook IPO which will be the largest in technology IPO history. Living in Palo Alto, California I can’t help feel proud and excited about the big day tomorrow. I love when an entrepreneurial venture hits the big time. For Facebook’s founders, early employees, and investors it’s a massive pay day. ...
Changes in the East Coast VC Scene – Atlas Ventures Adopting Andreessen Horowitz Playbook With Chris Lynch Hire
Venture Capital has been under massive change over the past 5 years. We’ve seen the emergence of new “products” from angel, super angel, to new institutional firms like Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz business model is the “gold standard” in technology investing. Andreessen in a short time has become the dominate venture capital firm on the ...
AppSense Upgrades Virtualization Platform – Quietly Becoming Big Player In Tech Field
AppSense is quietly becoming a big player in the enterprise tech community. They have been profitable from the start with year after year growth. In 2011 AppSense locked up a cool $75 million from Goldman Sachs – the second largest venture raise they’ve delivered to a company besides Facebook – to further drive global expansion ...
Vinod Khosla VC Firm Invests In Cloud Storage Firm Nirvanix – What SUN would be if around today.
Legendary investor Vinod Khosla’s VC arm—Khosla Ventures—revealed today that it led a Series C investment in hot enterprise cloud storage startup Nirvanix. Lots of coverage on Techcrunch, Venturebeat, SearchTechTarget, DatacenterKnowledge, and Gigaom. {editors note: SiliconANGLE has been covering Nirvanix (and other soon to be hot startups) and it’s great to see the mainstream traction. ...