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MemSQL5 seeks to bridge transaction, analytics processing
MemSQL, a scalable SQL-based in-memory distributed database, is getting major performance enhancements in version 5, announced today at Strata+Hadoop World in San Jose, CA. Most significant is the addition of technology to deliver low-latency query compilation for interactive data exploration through the use of LLVM, a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies ...
Apache Flink creators snag $6M for stream-processing startup
Just when you thought you had finally wrapped your brain around the importance of Apache Spark for event processing, there’s a new real-time player to consider. Data Artisans, a startup founded by the original creators of the Apache Flink stream data processing framework, is today announcing Series A funding of $6 million to develop analytics products based ...
EMC’s flash strategy – simplified
Amid turmoil in the storage industry driven by customers’ rapid adoption of flash technology, software-defined infrastructure and hyper-convergence, EMC has come under some fire for offering a confusing product strategy. Between its homegrown VMAX and XtremIO arrays and the technology it acquired with the purchase of DSSD Inc. last year, the company now has three all-flash ...
Oracle bids to take hybrid cloud to the next level
Although late to the cloud, Oracle appears to be intent on making up for lost time. The company made a strong bid for leadership in the market for hybrid clouds today with a series of announcements ta Oracle CloudWorld in Washington under the banner of “Oracle Cloud at Customer.” Leading the parade is the Oracle Cloud ...
Game of Thrones mania gets cloudy
The folks at CloudEndure, a cloud-based disaster recovery and data migration service provider, tell us they’re big Game of Thrones fans. They’re also pretty good at content marketing. For the third year, CloudEndure has scrubbed the Amazon Web Services Marketplace to find the most highly rated apps. The company said it pored over 4,107 apps ...
Red Hat becomes first $2 billion open-source software vendor
It turns out there is money to be made in open source. Red Hat Inc. beat Wall Street expectations and edged over the $2 billion annual revenue threshold, reporting fourth-quarter revenues of $544 million, beating analyst estimates of $534 million. Revenues were up 17 percent year-over-year. Perhaps more importantly, subscription revenues were up 18 percent ...
Cloudera certification boosts DataRobot’s machine learning platform
Well-funded data science startup DataRobot Inc. it taking a big step into the enterprise market by achieving the highest level certification on Cloudera Inc.’s Enterprise 5, the most popular commercial Hadoop platform. Top-level certification means that the DataRobot predictive analytics engine can now be managed from the Cloudera management console and that it complies with Cloudera’s ...
MapR adds Docker support, bulks up security on converged platform
MapR Technologies, Inc. today is adding support for persistent, stateful Docker containers along with security and performance improvements that make it easier for organizations to run Docker and analytics operations across a mix of Hadoop and non-Hadoop file systems. The company’s Converged Data Platform combines Hadoop, Apache Spark, web-scale storage, NoSQL and streaming capabilities into ...
B2B marketers grumble about ad spending results
B2B marketers see a lot of room for improvement overall in their digital advertising programs, but at least they’re happy with the advertising results their ads on social networks deliver, according to a new report by Demandbase Inc. The results of the survey of 500 management-level B2B marketers, which was conducted by Wakefield Research, casts ...
This new search engine is strictly business
The newest entry in the search engine market has a terrible name but an intriguing value proposition. Plonked Inc. describes its namesake search engine as a tool to significantly improve users’ ability to discover, analyze and connect with businesses. You can search on a company name to get detailed a profile or keywords to find ...