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Sqrrl beefs up Big Data platform with security analytics
Sqrrl, a startup with links to the NSA, has announced a new update to its Big Data security platform that’s built around technology used to protect the US from terrorist attacks and other national security threats. In addition, the company has just secured $7 million in Series B funding to help build out its customer ...
MapR’s new Hadoop distro brings ‘big and fast’ data to the enterprise
Open source Hadoop vendor MapR Technologies Inc. is expanding the functionality of its Big Data platform with the release of MapR 4.1, with the headline feature being new table replication features designed to extend access to “big and fast” data. The release comes as the company unwraps a trio of Quick Start Solutions it says ...
Pivotal strikes Hadoop alliance with Hortonworks, open-sources Big Data suite
EMC spin-off Pivotal Software Inc. has upset the Hadoop world’s applecart by announcing a plan to open-source the majority of its Big Data and analytics software. The company is releasing its products as open-source software under the Pivotal Big Data Suite banner, and will allow anyone to download and use them for free, modify them ...
IBM expands into SDN & hybrid clouds with Spectrum Storage
IBM is pushing ahead with its plans for the hybrid cloud, in the belief that actions and words speak louder together. First up, it’s making a big promise – $1 billion to be invested in the development of its software storage portfolio over the next five years; and second, the release IBM Spectrum Storage, a ...
Syncsort updates DMX platform to ease Hadoop integration
Syncsort is stepping up its game in Big Data, releasing an updated version of its data migration software that makes it easier for large organizations to extract information from legacy silos into platforms like Hadoop. The idea behind its DMX-h platform is to make it easier for organizations to adopt Hadoop. The service is pegged ...
Datameer’s Big Data platform heads to the clouds
The big Hadoop vendors Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies grab most of the headlines due to their primary focus on large organizations, but there’s another set of companies offering Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) to meet demand from companies with limited IT resources. Vendors like Altiscale and Bigstep are leading the HaaS charge, and now business intelligence specialist ...
InboxVudu reads your emails so you don’t have to bother
Keeping track of your most important email messages is a tough job at the best of times, even with the aid of tools like Gmail’s priority inbox and various anti-spam filters. If you’re one of those people who receives massive volumes of email every day, you’ll appreciate how just a single day’s worth of messages ...
HP acquires Voltage Security in Big Data encryption push
Hewlett-Packard Company has stepped up its enterprise security software game with the announcement of its forthcoming acquisition of data-encryption specialists Voltage Security Inc., for an undisclosed sum. Voltage Security has built a data encryption and tokenization solution that can be applied to distributed file storage systems like Hadoop, databases, application and email data, no matter ...
AWS’ ECS Container Service taps into Apache Mesos to simplify clustering
Amazon Web Services is hoping to bolster customers’ cluster-management options by integrating Apache Mesos and the Marathon framework with its EC2 Container Service (also known as ECS), according to a blog post by ECS founder Deepak Singh. The company has just unveiled a new Apache Mesos scheduler driver as a proof-of-concept integration with Marathon. The ...
Obama snags VMware’s Tony Scott to be the next Federal CIO
Barack Obama might be a bit of a lame duck President these days, but he does at least get to decide who’s in charge of the government’s IT operations. And to hammer that point home, he’s just gone and appointed VMware CIO Tony Scott as the new U.S. CIO. Scott assumes the role that was ...