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Hortonworks, IBM and Pivotal standardize Hadoop with “common core”
The heavyweight members of the Open Data Platform (ODP) are making waves today with an announcement that shows they’re deadly serious about their plans to “standardize” Hadoop. Speaking at the Hadoop Summit in Brussels earlier today, Hortonworks, Inc., IBM and Pivotal Software, Inc. said that from this point onward all three would use a standardized version ...
IDC: Cloud adoption accelerates in manufacturing industry
Almost two-thirds of manufacturing firms have at least two applications residing in public or private clouds, and say they will pursue “cloud-first” or “cloud-also” strategies in the future, according to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC). The study, Worldwide Cloud Adoption in the Manufacturing Industry, is based on data from surveys such as ...
Google set to face formal charges in EU for search dominance abuse
Google’s European antitrust troubles have reared their head again, with reports from several sources suggesting the European Union is about to accuse the search engine giant of violations. After years of painfully slow investigations, The Competition Office at the European Commission, which is charged with ensuring fair trade practices within the EU, is about to ...
DataStax brings enterprise grade Cassandra database to HP Moonshot
DataStax, the company that commercializes the open-source Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, has teamed up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to deliver an enterprise-grade version of its software on HP Moonshot, the low-power, hyperscale servers that “changed the industry”, according to ex-HP executive Dave Donatelli. Called DataStax Enterprise (DSE) on HP Moonshot, the two companies are billing the ...
HP’s Hilf backtracks: We’re not quitting the public cloud
Just days after Hewlett-Packard Co’s Bill Hilf hinted that the company was giving up the fight in the public cloud, the executive has gone and back-tracked, saying HP will continue to offer its OpenStack-based Helion cloud product for the forseeable future. Hilf, Senior vice president of Helion Product Management, clarified that his earlier comments were ...
Pivotal open-sources GemFire in-memory database under Project Geode
Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on an earlier promise to open-source some of its Big Data software, releasing the source code behind the GemFire, one of the integral parts of its Big Data Suite Hadoop product. Released under the name Project Geode, Pivotal said its decision means customers will have more insight into what ...
Hortonworks-Pivotal alliance bears fruit with updated Apache Ambari
The new tie-up between Hortonworks Inc. and Pivotal Labs, cemented with their recent founding of the Open Data Platform (ODP), is showing signs of bearing fruit with the release of the Apache Ambari 2.0 management component for Hadoop. Amabari 2.0 promises to make life much easier for Hadoop admins who struggle to keep their projects ...
Twitter cuts off ‘firehose’ access, eyes Big Data bonanza
Twitter upset the applecart on Friday when it announced it would no longer license its stream of half a billion daily tweets to third-party resellers. The social media site said it had decided to terminate all current agreements with third parties to resell its ‘firehose’ data – an unfiltered, full stream of tweets and all ...
Frustrated security pros try a new approach: Let the bad guys in
With recent, high-profile security breaches at companies like Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. and Target still fresh in our memories, most enterprises are all too aware of just how costly such incidents can be. The hidden costs of such incidents can add up for years, and can easily stretch into the millions of dollars, and perhaps ...
DARPA announces project to build evolving software that never dies
The United States’ leading madcap military boffins over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a plan to create self-adapting software that can live for over one hundred years without becoming obsolete. The project is being dubbed “Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems”, or BRASS, and aims to build an entirely new software ...