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Apache Arrow zooms to top-level status with promise of fast memory access for all
The latest project to reach top-level status in the Apache Software Foundation is a no-lose proposition for everyone, or at least that’s how the project leaders are positioning it. Apache Arrow achieves that elite ranking today under the direction of veterans of other notable Apache projects like Parquet, Drill, Pig and Calcite, and with the support ...
Move Guides synchs up with PwC in bid to transform relocation
Cloud relocation platform Move Guides Ltd. has entered into a partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) to add the Big Four consulting firm’s mobility tax, immigration, consulting and compliance offerings to its service lineup. The four-year-old Move Guides, which has raised more than $25 million in venture funding, is aiming to shake up the manually intensive ...
Linux Foundation lines up big guns for open I/O standard push
The Linux Foundation has teamed with a blue-chip group of corporate sponsors on a project to build an open source input/output (I/O) services framework, primarily focused on networking and storage software. The project, called FD.io (“Fido”) also announced an initial release of its software and the formation of a validation testing lab. FD.io is intended ...
Startup aims to turn tech recruiting process upside down
A new website for technology professionals launches today with a mission to turn the traditional recruiting process on its head. Woo enables tech professionals to define their criteria for employment via anonymous profiles. Prospective employers can then pick and choose promising candidates and pay a fee to connect with them. The service is aimed at ...
Big data has turned the corner; here’s what happens next | #CUBEconversations
For the past four years, big data consultancy NewVantage Partners LLC has surveyed a group of executives at large enterprises to determine their strategies surrounding big data. This year’s survey confirms that big data has turned the corner. In fact, 62.5 percent of firms reported that they now have at least one instance of big ...
Hadoop creator buoyant despite framework’s complexity woes
When Doug Cutting created the open-source Hadoop framework while working at Yahoo! Inc. in 2006, he didn’t imagine his invention would spawn an ecosystem of breathtaking scope and complexity. The dozens of projects that have sprung up to extend and enhance the core framework have brought big data to the mass market, in the process ...
IBM, Catalogic team up to automate storage provisioning
One unintended consequence of the popularity of cloud computing is that it has cast a harsh spotlight on the inability of many enterprise data centers to match the automated convenience of the public cloud. IBM and Catalogic Software Inc. are hoping to make a dent in that perception by teaming up to apply Catalogic’s ECX ...
Netronome takes the overhead out of network virtualization
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) offer some pretty compelling price/performance advantages, but they harbor a dirty little secret: Virtualization and software overhead can eat up 80 percent of hardware capacity. That cuts into cost savings but, more importantly, increases complexity as IT organizations have to layer on additional servers to match the ...
HotLink bids to lower the cost of disaster recovery
HotLink Corp. today is announcing a new disaster-recovery-as-a-service offering that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide data protection and business resiliency at a price point it thinks midsize businesses will like. The new offering combines the company’s disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity software with managed services and cloud delivery on a turnkey basis ...
Study finds data quality problems plague N. American companies
A new report paints a pretty dismal picture of the state of data quality in North American enterprises, even as data increasingly becomes a critical strategic asset. The State of Enterprise Data Quality: 2016 report, which was prepared by 451 Research LLC and commissioned by Blazent Inc. found that just 40 percent of C-level executives ...
