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InfiniteGraph Plays Nice in NoSQL Sandbox, Launches New Tool
When it comes to managing big data, there’s an emerging number of ways to go about things, depending on your needs for structured data, unstructured data, volume, speed and accessibility. NoSQL in particular is gaining a lot of attention in recent months, namely as more companies look to this language for refined ways of analyzing ...
How Can Big Data make Captcha Human Friendly?
Who would’ve thought that the cloud could help Captcha become more human? NuCaptcha has leveraged big data in a big way, creating the “human-friendly” Captcha campaign in an effort to gain new clients around its service. What NuCaptcha offers is a platform for adding Captcha in your website, enhancing security and warding off botnets. But ...
Cloudera Freely Offers Hadoop Knowledge Base. Kumbaya!
Cloudera’s been on a tear lately, launching a new Enterprise program, gaining support from some influential partners including Dell, and readily establishing its leadership position within the open cloud industry. Today’s news comes as a celebration of all Cloudera’s done up to now, extending its principles and growth efforts to the next level. A leading ...
HotLink Sizzles out of Stealth, Launches Transformation Platform for Clouds
One of the biggest issues enterprises face today is managing their server stacks and keeping up with new technology. There’s established systems to upend, complex connections to consider, and compatibility issues to address. No wonder there’s a flood of startups and services that offer enterprise-level products that minimize cloud management, extend APIs to centralized dashboards ...
Google+ Beats Facebook for Mobile Developer Interest: Report
The iPad rocks, Android tablets are determined to catch up, and everyone’s mixed up in some legal battle involving patents, code, or something of the sort. Got it. But as summer winds down and a new season approaches, what does the mobile industry have to look forward to? We’ve seen a few major developments since ...
A New Language for Unstructured Data. Just Call Him UnQL.
There’s a whole lot of data floating around this world, and an increasing portion of it is unstructured (for a review of unstructured vs. structured data and content, see here). The matter of managing this data is another story, borne of opportunity and promise for startups and large corporations alike. Some look at big data ...
Big Data, Mobility Feed the Market’s Cycle of Success
We’re at the mid-mark of the fiscal year, when companies set aside some time to discuss their finances, earnings and profits. And for the most part, the tech sector is doing well. Some key companies showed stellar performances, including Apple, Google and Verizon. Others still beat Wall Street expectations, demonstrating high growth and strong revenue ...
Gluster’s First Major Update for OpenStack Frees Data Across VMs
Gluster, the software-only open source storage solution, has released its first major update for OpenStack since joining the initiative a few months back. It’s the latest in a string of updates Gluster has had, rounding out the summer with a big bang. To OpenStack’s benefit, Gluster will be offering its Connector capabilities, providing a highly ...
Citrix Sees a BYO Utopia for the Office of the Future
In today’s world, every day is Bring Your Own Computer to work day. But the mobile scene is stretching into corporate environments with workers roping in smartphones and tablets under the Computer umbrella. And there’s not much anyone can do about it, including management and IT. We all know that coworker that pre-ordered their iPad, ...
YouSendIt Greatly Expands Cloud Service, Competes with Dropbox
YouSendIt is a file-sharing service that you’re probably familiar with. If you’re like me, you’ve used YouSendIt on an as-needed basis, shooting over video files to your coworkers to edit, not really thinking much of YouSendIt beyond your specific needs. YouSendIt is pretty good for this, but it’s ready to move on. The service is ...