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Alation and Paxata partner to help companies navigate data lakes
Big data companies Alation Inc. and Paxata Inc. say they’re teaming up to help enterprises navigate their way through so-called “data lakes” more easily. Data lakes are storage repositories that hold vast amounts of raw data in its native format until it’s needed. Whereas a hierarchical data warehouse stores data in files or folders, a ...
Cisco sharpens its ax for more job cuts at San Jose HQ
Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. is set to ax 310 more staffers from its corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The company revealed its intentions in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filing that it provided to state government officials, The Mercury News reported Wednesday. Cisco has spent a number of years restructuring its businesses in order ...
Google launches Cloud IoT Core device management service in beta
Google LLC announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing its new Cloud IoT Core service into public beta testing following a limited launch last May. Google Cloud IoT Core is described as a fully managed service available on the Google Cloud Platform. It’s designed to securely connect and manage “internet of things” devices at scale. The ...
Google beats Amazon to the post with immediate availability of per-second billing
Barely a week after Amazon Web Services Inc. said it would introduce a per-second billing option for its cloud customers, Google has announced it’s giving its customers the same choice. Google today said the new per-second payment option is available for its Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc and App Engine services. But whereas ...
Google snaps up cloud identity and access management startup Bitium
Google LLC Tuesday said it’s acquiring Santa Monica-based cloud services startup Bitium Inc. as it looks for ways to increase its share of the public cloud market. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Bitium’s co-founders said they’ll be joining Google’s cloud team. Founded in 2012, Bitium offers range of identity and access ...
Yahoo open-sources Vespa, its most important software release since Hadoop
Oath, the subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. that was created when the company acquired Yahoo Inc. earlier this year, said today it’s open-sourcing some of its most important internal software for executing web searches and generating recommendations and targeted advertisements. The software is called Vespa, and Oath said it’s used to tackle the tricky problem ...
Cloudera adds new tools for building data-hungry apps
Big data pioneer Cloudera Inc. is trying to ease the burden for companies building complex applications that leverage new technologies such as machine learning. To do so, today it added a new service called the Shared Data Experience to its Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub platform. SDX, as the service is called, is a suite of ...
In major product overhaul, MapR adds real-time analytics and SQL database support
Big Data specialist MapR Technologies Inc. made waves at the Strata Data Conference on Tuesday, announcing a major overhaul of its flagship Converged Data Platform. The company has introduced a slew of new capabilities for its MapR-DB NoSQL database – a key component of its Converged Data Platform – designed to power a new generation ...
Accelerite eases hybrid cloud management with Rovius Cloud
Cloud infrastructure company Accelerite is getting into the hybrid cloud management game with the launch of its new Rovius Cloud platform. Rovius Cloud is a new product geared toward enterprises that’s designed to simplify the deployment of on-premises and public cloud-based compute, storage and networking resources. It also helps companies to federate on-premises resources with those of ...
Report: 75% of enterprises would pay more for cloud security, performance guarantees
The desire for greater security and performance, along with a skills gap in many cloud deployments, is creating new opportunities for cloud providers to more deeply integrate with their customers, according to a new report from 451 Research Inc. The report, Voice of the Enterprise: Hosting and Cloud Managed Services – Organizational Dynamics, found that ...