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Red Hat & San Disk hook up to push Ceph open-source storage
Red Hat Inc. is teaming up with San Disk Corp. in the realm of open-source distributed storage. The two companies have just announced a new partnership that’ll see them deliver an integrated storage solution based on the scale-out storage platform Ceph. Ceph was developed by Inktank Storage, a Los Angeles-based startup acquired by Red Hat ...
Amazon in talks to take a stake in HERE maps
Reports are surfacing that Amazon.com, Inc. is looking to acquire a stake in the digital mapping company HERE, which is the subject of a $2.8 billion buyout offer from auto makers Audi AG, BMW AG and Mercedes-Benz. The German automobile makers entered into an agreement to acquire HERE last August, as part of their plans ...
Michael Dell’s compensation package cut by $11m ahead of EMC acquisition
Michael Dell’s salary has been slashed by $11 million a year as his company Dell Inc. prepares to complete its $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. later this year. Details of Dell’s pay cut came in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, which Dell the company was obligated to make as part of its ...
Cloudera has 38% wiped off its valuation by Fidelity
Fidelity Investments has slashed its estimated valuation of Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. by 38 percent in response to concerns over high-value startups which have attracted a lot of private capital, but have delayed an IPO. Fidelity, which has become one of the largest investors in pre-IPO companies through mutual funds that include the $100 billion-plus ...
AtScale simplifies BI on Hadoop with new release
AtScale, which offers a self-service Business Intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop, is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to run Big Data analytics atop of their Hadoop clusters. Hadoop has gained a lot of traction among enterprises in recent years, with many companies hopeful that it can power their BI operations and deliver useful ...
Global majority wants the dark web to be shut down
The reputation of the so-called Dark Web, the part of the Internet that can only be accessed via anonymity tools like the Tor browser and at one time home to the notorious Silk Road website, has gotten so bad that more than two out of three people would like to see it shut down. That ...
Apache Spark will dominate the Big Data landscape by 2022, Wikibon says
The Apache Spark Big Data processing framework will account for more than a third of all Big Data spending by 2022, according to new research by Wikibon. Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert’s latest report, Forecasting Spark’s Adoption in the Context of Systems of Intelligence, is the first-ever forecast on the Spark industry and how ...
Wikibon names IBM as #1 Big Data vendor by revenue
Wikibon has just released its latest 2015 Big Data Market Shares report, highlighting the hardware, software, and services vendors that are likely to lead a Big Data market that’s set to hit $92.2 billion by 2026, according to the research firm’s latest projections. Wikibon’s latest figures show the overall Big Data market grew from $18.3 ...
Wikibon forecasts Big Data market to hit $92.2B by 2026
The global big data market will grow from $18.3 billion in 2014 to a whopping $92.2 billion by 2026, representing a strong compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to Wikibon’s newly published 2016 – 2026 Worldwide big data Market Forecast. The research firm called 2015 “a breakthrough year for big data”, with the market ...
Altiscale teams up with Tableau Software to simplify Big Data analysis
Big Data-as-a-Service provider Altiscale Inc. wants to make it easier than ever for its customers to get to grips with their data, and its teaming up with Tableau Software to do just that. The two companies have just announced a strategic partnership they say will “bring the visual agility of Tableau to Altiscale customers” at ...