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Spark muscling in on Hadoop’s territory, says Wikibon analyst
Is Apache Spark the successor to Hadoop? Some people think so. Given the batch-oriented Hadoop’s complexity and the notorious performance problems of the MapReduce processing framework and the components that depend upon it, the integration and speed that the in-memory Spark analytics engine brings to the table has a lot of appeal. The big news ...
MemSQL raises $36M to advance its in-memory analytical database
MemSQL Inc., developer of a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, closed an over-subscribed series C financing round of $36 million, bringing its total funding to $85 million and setting the stage for international expansion. Previous investors Accel Partners LP, Khosla Ventures LLC, Data Collective, IA Ventures and First Round Capital all bought in to the ...
Canonical courts enterprises, developers with new Ubuntu release
With a newly signed deal with longtime antagonist Microsoft under its belt, Canonical Ltd. is rolling out the sixth major release of Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS), adding features that should improve the Linux distribution’s appeal to developers and enterprises. An LTS release is supported and maintained by Canonical for five years, making it an attractive choice for long-term, ...
EMC misses earnings target but says Dell merger is on track
EMC isn’t doing itself any favors in helping along its merger with Dell Inc. The storage giant reported weaker-than-expected earnings this morning, citing an “excess of unfulfilled orders.” Earnings per share were 31 cents, flat from a year ago and two cents below consensus analyst estimates. Revenue was down 2.5 percent to $5.48 billion, also below ...
Upbeat VMware says future’s so bright it’s gotta wear shades
Looks like things aren’t so troubled at VMware Inc. after all. Coming off the first quarter of what management has termed a “transition year,” and following a string of executive departures as well as confusion about its cloud strategy, the virtualization giant beat first-quarter revenue and earnings estimates, reaffirmed guidance for the year and surprised investors ...
Cloudera’s Olson sees innovation flourishing amid consolidation
With Pivotal Software Inc.’s announcement that it is formally abandoning Hadoop development in favor of standardizing on Hortonworks Inc.’s platform, the field of active competitors in the Hadoop market has been culled to just a handful. With that as a backdrop, we thought it was a good time to check in with Mike Olson, who ...
Microsoft to offer Talon distributed storage through StorSimple cloud service
Distributed storage vendor Talon Storage Solutions, Inc. scored a coup by gaining Microsoft’s endorsement of its CloudFast cloud-based file-caching software as a joint offering in the Azure Marketplace with Microsoft’s StorSimple hybrid cloud storage appliance. CloudFast centralizes file-based data in a global network with features like caching, file locking, “differencing” and transport optimization to provide ...
IBM revenue beats Street, but its overall business is still shrinking
IBM beat first-quarter revenue expectations and matched profits forecasts but did little to alleviate concerns about the company’s long contraction. Revenue for the quarter was $18.68 billion, down 4.6 percent from $19.59 billion one year ago but slightly ahead of analyst expectations of $18.29 billion. It was IBM’s 16th straight quarter of revenue decline. Earnings ...
IBM mounts video push with new customers and products
IBM is demonstrating that it’s serious about video this week with a series of new customer announcements and technology enhancements that it says make it possible to provide live, high-quality video anywhere in the world with sub-one-second startup delays and a “glitch-free viewing experience.” Among the new customers of the company’s new Cloud Video unit ...
Earnings preview: What to watch as giants reveal their cards
Quarterly earnings season kicks off in earnest this week, and a lot of attention will be focused on a clutch of top enterprise players that are negotiating difficult transitions. Here’s what to look for when the numbers come over the wire. IBM (April 18) – New markets key to growth Big Blue, which reports on ...