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Trend Watch: Vertical Funds for HTML5, Big Data and More
One trend we’ve seen in the past few months is a rise in venture capital funds dedicated to specific verticals. There’s the Accel big data fund, Accel’s new India fund, the Atlas Venture\Bocoup HTML5 fund, the Intel AppUp fund for cross-platform mobility and American Express’ fund for e-commerce. Funds dedicated to certain verticals are nothing ...
Who Keeps the ZooKeeper? Netflix Open Sources Apache ZooKeeper Tools
Dell’s Crowbar plugin for Apache Hadoop wasn’t the only new Hadoop tool open sourced by a major company yesterday. Netflix released Curator, a set of libraries for working with Apache ZooKeeper. Zookeeper is a coordinator for distributed applications such as Hadoop. It’s part of BigTop, the Hadoop distribution that includes the “extended family” of Hadoop ...
Box Giving Away 50 Gigs of Free Storage to LG Android Users, Adds Offline Features and More
Box today announced a partnership with LG along with new features for its Android app. As part of the new partnership, users who log into Box for Android on any LG phone running Android 2.1 or higher between now and March 31 2012 will get 50 GBs of free storage space. The offer is good ...
Hadoop Alternative HPCC Now Available on Amazon Web Services
If you’ve been waiting for an easy way to test HPCC, the alternative to Apache Hadoop built and open sourced by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, then you’re in luck. Starting today HPCC Thor clusters will be available on Amazon Web Services. At the moment this is just a beta and it’s offering by HPCC, not as ...
Amazon Web Services Planning Real-Time, Big Data Stream Processing Service
According to a job ad posted by Amazon Web Services, the company is planning to launch a new service for processing streams of big data. Here’s the job listing: Amazon Web Services is looking for a Senior Development Manager to lead the team that is building a disruptive new service for processing Big Data streams. ...
Dell Open-Sources Code for Hadoop Deployment Tool
Crowbar is an open source deployment tool developed by Dell originally as part of its Dell OpenStack Cloud service. It started as a tool for installing Open Stack, but can deploy other software through the use of plug-in modules called “barclamps.” Today Dell released the source code for its Apache Hadoop barclamp on Github. The ...
Puppet Labs Gets $8.5 Million from Google, Cisco, VMware and Existing Vendors
Puppet Labs announced today that it closed $8.5 million in C-Seies funding with Google, VMware and Cisco as new investors. The investment brings Puppet’s total raised to $15.5 million. Its previous investors – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures and Radar Partners – are also participating in the new round. Puppet Labs sponsors the open ...
What Are the Best Cities for Tech Jobs? A Look Beyond the Valley
Joel Kotkin, a professor of urban development, and Forbes Magazine have published a list of the top 10 best cities for tech jobs in the U.S. The results are surprising – the Bay area doesn’t even hit the list. That’s because Kotkin and company looked at some alternative metrics, such as job market stability, when ...
Cloudant CEO: We’re Still Committed to Apache CouchDB
On Monday Canonical announced that it will no longer use Apache CouchDB as the basis for its structured data synchronization in Ubuntu One and would replace it with a custom built solution. The news was met with indifference from Couchbase, the company formed after Membase acquired CouchDB sponsor company CouchOne earlier this year. “We’re not ...
Google: Too Nerdy, or Not Nerdy Enough?
Google has been catching a lot of flak over the past couple years, much of it along the lines of this post about Google Plus. The gist of it is that Google products are built by nerds, for nerds. In other words, Google is too nerdy. It’s not a new idea. Sometimes it’s expressed as ...