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Harmony or Hail Mary? Experts debate need for the Open Data Platform
Will the Open Data Platform (ODP) association bring harmony to the Big Data market or dive a wedge into it? Experts have been debating that point since the blockbuster announcement last week, with the consensus being that, at best, ODP has a long and difficult road ahead. The new consortium, which is led by Pivotal ...
Coolan wants to keep tabs on your data center in the cloud
A new startup led by one of the founders of Facebook’s Open Compute Project is bidding to make data centers more economical by gathering and analyzing performance data from thousands of users, with a service it calls “community-based analytics”. Coolan is the brainchild of Amir Michael, who worked on the team that founded Facebook’s Open ...
HP goes shopping: Targets Aruba Networks acquisition
Hewlett-Packard Co. could be poised to make one last acquisition before it splits itself in two, with a report from Bloomberg suggesting it’s looking to snap up wireless networking infrastructure technology outfit Aruba Networks Inc. Bloomberg cites the usual anonymous sources in its report, and says the deal could be announced as soon as next ...
Hortonworks’ Big Data revenues fall short of expectations
The entire Hadoop industry has been anticipating yesterday’s first-ever quarterly earnings report from Hortonworks, Inc., but the results were neither a home run nor a strikeout. The company that grabbed the stock symbol HDP said its losses continue to grow, but it painted a rosy picture of the future. The stock market chose to look on the ...
Mirantis and Google bring Kubernetes to OpenStack
Google has teamed up with OpenStack pure-play vendor Mirantis Inc. in order to make it easier to use the Docker cluster manager Kubernetes on the cloud platform. Mirantis, one of the major OpenStack vendors, said today it’s added support for Kubernetes, an open-source technology built by Google that’s designed to manage containerized applications. The integration ...
Apache HBase 1.0 launched after 7 years of development
After almost seven years of careful development and nurturing, the Apache Software Foundation has finally signed off on the first stable release of HBase 1.0, which is often more simply referred to as the Hadoop Database. The release of HBase 1.0, which has been built to work with various different flavors of Hadoop, was described ...
HP reshuffles Helion cloud leadership as Mårten Mickos steps down
Hewlett-Packard Company’s cloud division is in the midst of a management reshuffle, with reports suggesting that senior vice president Marten Mickos, formerly the CEO of cloud vendor Eucalyptus, has stepped down from day-to-day operations to be replaced by some familiar faces. GigaOM first broke the news on Monday, while The Register later published details of ...
Microsoft brings Machine Learning in the cloud
Microsoft believes that too much of the world’s Big Data is going to waste, and so it’s just launched a new intitiative to help organizations process it all, build APIs and finally make some sense out of it. The technology, called Azure Machine Learning (ML), is a new cloud based service that can be accessed ...
Hidden costs of Sony’s data breach will add up for years, experts say
If there’s one positive to come out of last year’s catastrophic security breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., it’s that the incident highlighted just how expensive a serious data breach can be. That’s an important consideration for enterprises because security infrastructure doesn’t come cheap, and justifying the return on problems that don’t occur can be ...
Qubole’s Big Data-as-a-service platform Sparks into life
Big data-as-a-service player Qubole is getting up to speed with the addition of Apache Spark to its Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform. The company, which was founded by the team that developed Facebook’s data infrastructure, claims that the addition of Spark broadens the types of workloads that can be performed on QDS via the cloud, ...