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IBM bets big on Spark, calling it the Linux of Big Data analytics
IBM was late to the Hadoop party, and has had to settle for playing a supporting role. It isn’t going to make the same mistake again. The company is putting a major stake in the ground in support of Apache Spark, the high-speed analytics and machine-learning engine that is the hottest thing in Big Data ...
MapR 5.0 edges Hadoop closer to real-time processing
Continuing its drive to bring the batch-oriented Hadoop Big Data platform into the real-time world, MapR technologies, Inc. today is announcing a host of new features designed to support on-the-fly decision-making. MapR 5.0 is also crafted to support bigger workloads, responding to what MapR says is a trend toward customers running more applications on individual clusters. ...
Wikibon sizes up the skeptics as #HadoopSummit love fest begins
As Hadoop Summit prepares to kick off tomorrow in San Jose, CA, the Big Data platform that is shaking up the database industry is also struggling with an adolescent crisis and questions about whether it can support a full commercial ecosystem in the long term. Forecasts for the overall Big Data market continue to be ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for June 4 – stats about the sheer size of HP’s split
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News The HP split by the numbers: 2,800 apps and 75,000 APIs – Computerworld This story notes that HP has laid off 50,000 people over the last two ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for June 3 – HP sets breakup date for Nov. 1
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News Google has reportedly acquired sensor company Lumedyne for $85M – Venture Beat Obvious use is in driverless cars, but Lumedyne has other sensor patents that could be ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for June 2 – Cisco execs head for the door
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior is out: Report – Business Insider COO Gary Moore and president Rob Lloyd have also resigned in the wake of Cisco’s appointment of Chuck ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for May 29 – IBM goes vertical with analytics
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Product News IBM pitches analysis software for select industry verticals – Computerworld There’s a strong vertical focus to this new line of applications, which are heavy on predictive analytics. ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for May 28 – GigaOm resurrected – sorta
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News CA buys Rally Software for DevOps and cloud-based agile development in $480m deal – Computing Company says its customers need to develop software faster. Rally claims users ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for May 27, 2015 – IRS breach has creepy implications
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News EMC Buys Virtustream To Expand Its Cloud Offerings – InformationWeek If you want to really understand Virtustream and how it will fit into the EMC ecosystem, check ...
CloudBolt aims to make VM provisioning dead easy
Betting that multi-cloud complexity is becoming a time sink for corporate IT administrators, CloudBolt Software, Inc. is bulking up its namesake platform for virtual machine (VM) self-provisioning. The three-year-old company has a new CEO in Jon Mittelhauser, co-developer of the first Windows Web browser and a co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp., and is boasting of ...