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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
MemSQL just made it super easy to deploy Apache Spark
MemSQL Inc., builder of the fast, in-memory MemSQL database for transactions and analytics, has taken the wraps off of an integrated Apache Spark solution to give enterprises an easy way to access real-time analytics. Called Spark Streamliner, the solution gives enterprises a …