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The Open Data Platform rebrands as ODPi under the Linux Foundation
The members of the controversial Open Data Platform for Hadoop initiative have formally moved the project under the Linux Foundation, in a move that will further irritate those who’re opposed to it. In addition, the group has also announced a fresh batch of new members, plus an update on its work to introduce a core ...
Holberton School tackles software skills shortage with hands-on learning
The dearth of capable software and systems engineers is getting so great that a group of industry veterans have taken it upon themselves to tackle the problem, establishing a new “hands-on” school to train budding full stack software engineers in the latest and greatest IT technologies. Opened this week, the Holberton School in San Francisco ...
Rackspace gets fanatical with new managed security offering
Rackspace Inc., which has carved out a niche for itself as a provider of “fanatical support” for all manner of cloud services, is now getting into the security and compliance game with a new managed offering for small and medium-sized enterprises. The demand for cybersecurity skills has been on the rise in the enterprise, but ...
Pivotal open-sources Apache HAWQ & Apache MADlib
Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its HAWQ SQL engine for Hadoop, and it’s also done the same for its MADlib machine learning technology. As of today, the development of both HAWQ and MADlib will now fall under The Apache Software Foundation, although Pivotal will ...
Hortonworks brings DataFlow to the enterprise
Hortonworks Inc. has announced the availability of support subscriptions for its advanced stream processing platform DataFlow, following a quiet launch late last week. DataFlow, which is based on the NSA-developed Apache NiFi project, was first introduced to an audience of oil and gas companies during a webinar last week as the solution to the processing ...
Altiscale delivers ‘Spark-as-a-Service’ cloud platform
Apache Spark and Hadoop are widely regarded as the marquee tools in the box when it comes to crunching and consuming Big Data, but their complexity makes them extremely difficult for many organizations to deploy. Add to that their resource hungry nature, and the challenges for organizations can often be insurmountable. Now though, Big Data-as-a-Service ...
Adobe delves into Big Data insights with Analysis Workspace
Adobe Inc. has come up with a way for data scientists and marketers to analyze and get insights out of their data. Called Analysis Workspace, the platform allows users to curate customized dashboards jammed with data and insights they can share with colleagues. Adobe said it developed Analysis Workspace after learning from its experience in ...
Accenture revenues top $30B for the year
Technology consulting and outsourcing giant Accenture Plc. reported strong end-of-year financials with a five percent increase in sales revenues to $30 billion for its fiscal 2015, compared to the year before. However, the company’s net income slipped by 10 percent to just $3.2 billion for the year, thanks to a spree of acquisitions made over ...
CSC & AT&T team up to transform hybrid cloud management
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) has teamed up with AT&T Inc. on a new solution that promises to revolutionize workload management across hybrid cloud networks. The two companies have just unveiled the AT&T NetBond® with CSC Agility Platform™ to help businesses increase their agility and drive down costs by shifting critical applications to the cloud. Using ...
Economic data-gatherer Premise Data raises $50 million
There’s been a lot of talk about the staggering growth of Big Data in the world, with some experts saying the amount of data stored on servers across the globe is increasing at an exponential rate, practically doubling as each year passes us by. That may be so, but in Third World countries with poorly ...