Today Hadoop COO Kirk Dunn and NetApp Senior Director of Data Center Solutions Jeff O’Neal appeared on our show theCube live at HadoopWorld, followed by Hadoop CTO Amr Awadallah. The execs talked about Hadoop washing, Cloudera unique differentiators, how Hadoop is different from Linux, the Cloudera’s new partnership with NetApp and more. Dunn provided an ...

Today Salesforce.com finally unveiled Do.com, the new service we covered previously. VentureBeat has coverage and a sign-up code. I expected Do.com to be a rebranding of Manymoon, the project management and collaboration application the CRM company acquired earlier this year. Instead, it’s a new application based on Manymoon. It’s not clear whether Salesforce.com will keep ...

Everyone will be watching the big names at HadoopWorld, particularly Cloudera and HortonWorks. Oracle is sort of the elephant in the room, as it tries to hijack the NoSQL and Hadoop conversations. But there are many companies here doing interesting things. Here are a few to keep your eye on during the event. We’ll be ...

New Relic added a free server monitoring service to its application performance management tool. The new service will measure CPU, memory, network activity and processes. New Relic already offered developers the ability to monitor application performance on the server and browser side. Now it’s adding the ability to track what’s happening further down the stack, ...

ScaleMP sells a virtualization solution that enables you to create one big virtual server out of several smaller physical servers (previous coverage). It’s sort of the opposite of what most virtualization vendors do, where you run multiple virtual servers on one physical server. The latest version of ScaleMP will now enable users to run other ...

Cloudera announced today that it raised $40 million in series D funding from Greylock and Accel amongst other returning investors. This is a nice big round to help Cloudera keep up the Hadoop wars with Horton Works. Clouder COO Kirk Dunn told me in an interview today that the company plans to spend the money ...

A video of Alex Soojung-Kim Pang‘s talk earlier this year at the LIFT 2011 has been posted. Pang talks about his concept of “contemplative computing,” a subject he’s writing a book on. You can also read the text of Pang’s talk here (PDF). Pang’s work is hinged on an idea from psychology called flow. Contemplative ...

Yesterday I looked at several of the alternatives to Apache Hadoop that are coming from companies like HPCC Systems, Twitter and Microsoft. These projects differentiate themselves from Hadoop by providing a more robust set of integrated tools and/or more accessible ways of performing analysis. But Hadoop has a large ecosystem, with many projects being built ...

Karmasphere announced that its Apache Hadoop tools Karmasphere Analyst and Karmasphere Studio will be available via Amazon Web Services Elastic Map Reduce as a pay-as-you-go service. Users will still need to download the tools, but will be able to pay via AWS. Karmasphere is one of several vendors trying to make Hadoop more accessible. Karmasphere ...

I just published a list of Apache Hadoop alternatives, but here’s another one for the list: Spark. Spark is an distributed in-memory data analytics platform that uses the Scala programming language. IBM claims that Spark should be must faster than Hadoop because it uses in-memory analytics instead of Hadoop’s cluster file system approach. Spark was ...