Hadoop Summit 2014 is just around the corner. But before we get a chance to see what has been happening in the world of Hadoop, let’s take a look back at some of the developers development at last year’s conference. Announcements came from tools across the industry including Hortonworks support of YARN, MapR and Fusion-io ...

Hadoop Summit, now in its third year, is the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community. The Apache Hadoop community project took its brands to Europe in April this year in Amsterdam. Hadoop Summit Conference in Amsterdam doubled its audience in a year, illustrating the growing interest in the framework in Europe and showcasing use ...

Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, ESG, recently talked to Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick at theCUBE at just concluded EMC World 2014, in which she spoke on changing role in IT, increase in enterprise file sharing and the role of EMC’s Syncplicity in enterprises. The interview started with Vellante asked the current trends of file sharing ...

During the TechEd 2014 conference in Houston, Microsoft announced several new features for its cloud productivity suite. The most interesting is called the Office Graph and it is a service that allows users to highlight the relationships between people and information. Office Graph operation is similar to that of Facebook or other social networks, but ...

Backend-as-a-service provider Firebase started out as a database backend service infrastructure company that helps build web applications in real time, aimed to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, online collaboration tools, multiplayer games, messaging and other types of apps. Now, the company is taking a step in another direction. Firebase has expanded its range ...

Mojang has announced the arrival of Minecraft Realms for PC and Mac worldwide. The new subscription service for Minecraft allows users to create and manage their own servers intuitively without technical knowledge. Starting from $13 per month, subscribers can open private servers and invite up to 20 players, with 10 playing simultaneously. The servers will ...

AlchemyAPI has been working in the artificial intelligence machine learning space for some time now. The deep learning-based artificial intelligence company provides advanced cloud-based and on-premise text analysis infrastructure that eliminates the expense and difficulty of integrating natural language processing systems into your application, service, or data processing pipeline. Now the company has embarked into ...

Cloudyn provides a monitoring service platform built using Amazon Web Services (AWS), which then analyzes performance and offers optimization suggestions. Cloudyn also provides similar functionality in Google Compute Engine (GCE) cloud platform. With OpenStack available for cloud-interested companies, the company has opened up an offering that takes advantage of the open source cloud-enabled stack. Cloudyn for ...

As DevOps begins to loom large in the industry, especially in startups where there is no clear distinction between developers and the IT department, JumpCloud seeks to offer tools to help IT and DevOps achieve high levels of reliability. This means the the ability to avoid unplanned downtime and manage development environments without disruption and delays. ...

During the IBM Impact 2014 event, the big blue company introduced an expansion of its IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio and Cloud Marketplace. Offerings which include new tools and resources to help organizations easily create, test, and deploy mobile and cloud applications. These new products complement IBM SmartCloud and IBM MobileFirst portfolios. Cloud and mobile have grown ...