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Wikibon view: ODP clarifies choices in chaotic Hadoop market
Industry consortia have a mixed track record in computer industry history. At their best, they create standards the market can rally around, thereby simplifying user decision making (think W3C). At their worst, they foster bickering and divisiveness that shoves innovation into a corner. So we approached the announcement of the Open Data Platform (ODP) two ...
Syncsort acquires William Data to boost mainframe-Splunk integration
Syncsort, Inc., one of the most durable independent software vendors, has acquired U.K.-based William Data Systems as part of its campaign to help enterprise mainframe users leverage the power of modern Big Data technologies to make more efficient use of their big machines. William Data makes network monitoring and security software products for the IBM z/OS ...
SolidFire fills in mid-tier product line and unbundles its storage OS
Coming off a year in which it claims enterprise sales grew by nearly 600%, SolidFire, Inc. is introducing its latest all-flash array, citing forward-compatibility guarantees and flexible deployment options as incentives. The company is also unbundling its Element OS storage operating system for licensing by vendors building hyper-scale computing systems. The five-year-old startup, which has ...
Violin Memory says throw out those disks with its new all-flash arrays
Violin Memory, Inc. is rolling out two new all-flash arrays, pitching them as the first flash storage systems that can run primary workloads at less than the cost of traditional disk. The company is also releasing an overhauled version of its Concerto storage operating system and Symphony simple management control suite, along with a pricing ...
Pentaho adds Amazon Redshift, Cloudera Impala to stable of data sources
A pending acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems isn’t slowing the pace of development at Pentaho Corp., which is opening its flagship analytics platform to Amazon Redshift and Cloudera, Inc.’s Impala in release 5.3 announced today. The open-source provider of reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow software is continuing to broaden its integration with third-party ...
MemSQL extends in-memory database with Apache Spark connector
Continuing its campaign to evangelize the virtues of the SQL query language while also embracing alternatives, MemSQL, Inc. is rolling out a connector for the popular Apache Spark framework that it says enables rapid and seamless data transfer between the platforms. The MemSQL Spark Connector combines the in-memory processing and distributed architectures of both MemSQL ...
DataStax buys TitanDB developer, enters red-hot graph database market
In a bid to bring together two of the hottest new database management technologies – the Apache Cassandra NoSQL columnar store and graph databases – DataStax, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Aurelius LLC, developer of the popular open source TitanDB graph engine. Datastax said the combination of the two companies will create the ...
Cisco puts hundreds of software products in the cloud
Acceding to the growing ranks of customers who are demanding that software be divorced from hardware and delivered as a service, Cisco Systems, Inc. Is putting hundreds of its formerly bundled software services in the cloud and offering them on a subscription basis. Cisco One is an umbrella offering that covers both licensing and new services. ...
Dells adds Chromebook support, agentless monitoring to management appliance
With investors no longer breathing down its neck for growth in its hardware business, Dell is continuing to invest in its $2.5 billion software business with enhancements to its KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance. Billed as a major upgrade, version 6.3 of the K1000 features what the vendor claimed is industry-first support for Chromebooks (right), as ...
MapR to give away Hadoop training to the tune of $50M
In a move that should put a dent in the global shortage of trained Hadoop professionals while boosting its own corporate citizenship image, MapR Technologies, Inc. today announced that it is giving away $50 million in in-kind training services via an online learning platform that anyone can access. The initial curriculum includes seven self-paced courses ...