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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 ...
Brocade touts higher-density with new SDN-Enabled VDX switch
Brocade is pushing further into software-defined networking (SDN) territory with an update to its VCS fabric portfolio that includes a new high-density switch which can be deployed automatically in less than a minute. In addition, it’s also adding support for its Vyatta Controller as well as third-party controllers based on OpenDaylight standards, and Puppet and ...
Will the mysterious Apache Flink find a sweet spot in the enterprise?
The Apache Software Foundation raised a few eyebrows last week when it announced Apache Flink as its latest Top-Level Project (TLP). The move was surprising because up until now very few people had even heard of the project, let alone put it into production. Flink doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Nevertheless, IT now ranks ...
IBM adds analysis, speech, text & visuals to Watson Developer Cloud
IBM is adding to Watson’s roster of online services that developers can use to enhance their applications with data processing and analysis capabilities. Since its October 2013, the Watson Developer Cloud has built up a 5,000-strong user base of developers, and its services are currently deployed in more than 6,000 apps. For now, all of ...
Oracle throws its Linux distro into the Docker mix
The hype around Docker shows no signs of abating, and now Oracle is hoping to get in on the action and potentially make a profit. The database giant has just made images of the Oracle Linux distro available on the Docker Hub, a registry developers use to choose which tools and components they want to ...
Flocker creator ClusterHQ gets $12M to simplify container data management
ClusterHQ, a little-known startup that’s driving development of the open-source Flocker container manager, believes there’s a fortune to be made by whoever can capitalize on the nascent technology. And now, thanks to a new $12 million Series A funding round, it believes that it’s well positioned to do just that. The startup, which is based ...