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MapR add JSON support to flagship NoSQL database
Looking to extend the scope of its high-performance Hadoop distribution, MapR Technologies Inc. today is announcing the addition of native JSON support to its NoSQL database. JSON (Javascript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format that is commonly used to represent simple data structures and objects. It is widely used in Web browser-based ...
Scott McNealy’s new venture raises $15.4M
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy’s re-entry to the computer industry is drawing some serious interest from vendors as a handful of well-heeled industry veterans have just poured $15.4 million into Wayin, the real-time social marketing company he now heads. In addition to McNealy himself, investors in this latest round include David Duffield, founder of ...
Control hybrid clouds before they control you, experts advise
The tone for today’s Hybrid Cloud Summit in Cambridge Massachusetts was summed up by Bruce Richardson, chief enterprise strategist at Salesforce.com Inc. “We’re a pure public cloud vendor, so I was wondering why I was asked to speak on the topic of hybrid cloud,” he told the audience during a panel session. “Then I realized ...
Omniata wants to unify all your data silos
Venture-backed data analytics firm Omniata Inc. is bringing it namesake data analytics platform out of beta test today with claims that it can integrate data from nearly any source to provide analytics in near real time. Founded by gaming industry veterans, Omniata is tuned to deliver the kind of rapid insights that game makers used ...
Wikibon analyst sees urgent need to simplify Hadoop ecosystem
What do Sqoop, Flume, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, Hortonworks Dataflow, Samza, Data Torrent, and Storm have in common? They can all be used to deliver data in batch or streaming modes to Hadoop clusters. The difficulty for enterprise IT organizations is deciding which ones to use, not to mention finding the skills necessary to operate ...
Keen IO targets enterprises with embedded analytics engine
Keen IO, a company founded four years ago to provide high-speed custom analytics for developers, is going upscale with a new release of its platform targeted at the enterprise. The new enterprise-oriented Keen Pro product is designed to be white labeled and embedded in other commercial products. In a crowded analytics market that sometimes seems ...
Check Point takes new approach to zero-day detection
Asserting that sandbox security is both inconvenient and unreliable, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has come out with a variation that it claims provides vastly improve performance by detecting threats at the CPU level. The SandBlast platform, which is available both on premise and as a service, identifies malware at the exploit phase before common ...
Brocade skips complexity to unify enterprise apps for mobile users
Many organizations are facing a crushing backlog of development request for mobile applications, driven by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement and the competitive pressure to make field sales and service people more efficient. The problem is that many vendors’ mobile apps aren’t all that good. And even the ones that are don’t integrate seamlessly with apps ...
HP’s new security technology looks for malware phoning home
Reflecting the growing realization that traditional signature-based approaches to malware detection aren’t working any more, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is rolling out an analytics-based tool that identifies infected hosts by inspecting an enterprise’s Domain Name System (DNS) traffic. The HP DNS Malware Analytics (DMA) service inspects all of an organization’s DNS records and applies a Big ...
Birst’s ‘Networked BI’ lets users play but keeps data safe
Fast-growing analytics startup Birst, Inc. is announcing a new way for organizations to democratize business intelligence, enabling individual users to customize their views and applications without compromising the central data store. A concept the company calls “Networked BI” is designed to “virtualize the entire BI ecosystem, transforming every aspect of an organization’s approach to analytics,” ...
