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Big Data integration software provider Syncsort Inc. is teaming up with Dell Inc. and Cloudera Inc. in a bid to make Hadoop easier for enterprises to get up and running. Syncsort and Dell have introduced a new reference architecture that will, among …
Cloudera hires Google exec to lead its Hadoop development team
Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. has made an interesting hire in the shape of Daniel Sturman, an 8-year Google exec who was most recently a VP of Engineering at the Internet giant. Sturman joined Cloudera as its new VP of Engineering on Monday, …
SAP HANA expands its reach into Big Data analytics and the IoT
SAP SE has rolled out an updated version of its flagship HANA in-memory database and application platform this week, with the emphasis on Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). Released yesterday, SAP said HANA service pack 10 brings more …
Mesosphere sets Spark flying on its Data Center Operating System
Mesosphere Inc. is partnering with Typesafe Inc. to provide support for an instance of Apache Spark that can be run atop of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) on the Amazon Web Services cloud. The integration makes it much easier to …
Google improves Sheet’s analytics, visualization features
Google is adding new visualization and analytical tools to its Sheets software to help business users to better understand the data on their spreadsheets. In its latest effort to bring Big Data analytics capabilities to the masses, Google has announced a new …
Deutsche Telekom teams up with Huawei to target Amazon in Europe
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom is looking to muscle in on Amazon turf in Europe, where it’s ramping up its cloud business by expanding its partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The telecoms firm said that by linking with Huawei it would be …
Analyst report casts a shadow over Hortonworks
Few experts doubt the Hadoop market is an extremely promising one, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all of the major players in the space are going to make the grade. Despite the incessant “hype” around Hadoop, none of the major vendors have …
Databricks updates Spark with support for R and Python 3
Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for data scientists. As well as support for Python 3, Apache …
Sungard banks on Google’s cloud to land massive SEC Big Data contract
Sungard Financial Systems is relying on Google’s cloud expertise in a bid to land a multi-million dollar contract from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The two firms are working together to build a prototype cloud computing system that can store six …
Nutanix may sell its software via subscription
Nutanix Inc., which provides to large enterprises and service providers, is mulling the idea of selling a software-only version of its product, executives said on Wednesday. Even more enticing though is that Nutanix is also considering selling its software to those customers …