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In a bid to counter China, U.S. government will spend $258M on exascale supercomputer research
The U.S. Department of Energy said today it will pump $258 million worth of funds into six technology firms to help them develop the first exascale supercomputer. Exascale computers are systems that can achieve a “million, trillion calculations per second,” the DoE said. No such machine exists yet, but if it did, its computing power would ...
Amazon still dominates cloud computing as Microsoft and Google struggle to catch up
Amazon Web Services Inc. has retained an impressive lead in Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, with Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. failing to make up much if any ground over their biggest rival. The picture at the top, according to the ranking released Thursday, is much the same as ...
Yahoo unloads Bullet for querying streaming data in real time
Yahoo Inc. probably hasn’t been given enough credit for its contributions to the open-source software community over the last couple of decades. The company, which famously developed the Apache Hadoop software that’s at the heart of most big data projects today, is an active participant in numerous popular open-source projects. Today, Oath Inc., the new Verizon ...
IDC: Internet of Things will become a $1.4 trillion industry by 2021
Technology analyst firm International Data Corp. has updated its spending estimates for the Internet of Things, saying it will grow 16.7 percent in 2017 to just over $800 billion. IDC also said global IoT spending will jump to almost $1.4 trillion by 2021, driven by investments in IoT connectivity, hardware, software and services. IDC reckons that ...
Virtustream combines its managed services with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Two Dell Technologies Inc. companies are teaming up to offer a new cloud service they claim will be able to speed up the deployment of cloud-native applications on Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform as a service offering through which developers can build, deploy and run applications in data centers or in public clouds. ...
Talend ramps up support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in new release
Data integration software provider Talend Inc. has updated its Data Fabric platform, introducing broader support for a multitude of public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Snowflake. Talend Data Fabric Summer ‘17, as the new release is called, is software that’s designed to help companies integrate data from multiple ...
MarkLogic’s NoSQL database platform lands on Microsoft Azure
NoSQL database provider MarkLogic Corp. hit a milestone of sorts Tuesday, announcing that its MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database platform is now available on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud. The company said there’s a growing need for agile database platforms in public cloud environments. It said MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database platform on Azure provides this kind of flexibility ...
Doubling down on open-source software, Microsoft joins Cloud Foundry project
Extending its embrace of open-source software, Microsoft Corp. today released a bunch of new tools for the cloud platform Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform as a service offering through which developers can build, deploy, run and scale applications in data centers or in public clouds. The idea is that developers can write new software ...
IBM taps Hortonworks to inject machine learning into big-data software
IBM Corp. today said it’s teaming up with Hortonworks Inc. in a partnership that will combine IBM’s data science offering with Hortonworks’ software platform for managing huge amounts of data. The two companies said the integration was all about helping customers better analyze and manage their data, but it also has some big consequences for ...
Hazelcast Jet beefs up its real-time data stream processing capabilities
In-memory data grid provider Hazelcast Inc. is updating its Hazelcast Jet platform for stream processing with new features that should improve the accuracy of the data analysis it performs. Hazelcast Jet is an open-source distributed processing engine for big data that was released by Hazelcast earlier this year. At the time, the company said its ...