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IBM launches a cloud-based IDE for data scientists
The $300 million initiative that IBM Corp. launched last year to broaden the adoption of Apache Spark is kicking into high gear. At an event held in San Francisco today for users of the…
SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite
By Paul Gillin
SIOS Technology Corp. is giving system administrators in big SQL Server shops reason to smile in release 3.7 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software for managing VMware Inc. environments. SIOS iQ is an agentless…
Watch LIVE: Accelerating the digital transformation journey | #HPEdiscover
In today’s business environment, organizations that reinvent quickly are more likely to succeed. And as enterprises continue to transform digitally, technology that enables them to do so continues to advance at a rapid pace.…
Watch LIVE: Data science and engineering at scale | #SparkSummit
Apache Spark’s rapid adoption by a wide range of enterprises, including Yahoo, Baidu and Tencent, has made it the largest open-source community in Big Data, according to The Apache Software Foundation. It now has…
Data services startup Iguaz.io aims to untangle Big Data hairball
By Robert Hof
Two-year-old Israeli startup Iguaz.io aims to untangle the current hairball of ways to store and move big data for analytics.
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Splice Machine open-sources its Hadoop-based RDBMS
Two years after hitting the scene with its Hadoop-powered relational database, Splice Machine Inc. is opening a new chapter in its growth effort. The startup this morning announced plans to release the code for…
Helpshift takes in $23M to build out mobile support technology
By Paul Gillin
Helpshift Inc. raised a $23 million series B funding round for its in-app customer service technology , bringing total capital raised to $36.2 million. Participants in the new round include Microsoft Ventures Inc., Salesforce Ventures,…
Uber tries to get its drivers smiling with latest app update
By Collen Kriel
Claiming it wants to ease “very real pain points” raised by its drivers, Uber Technologies Inc. has introduced a variety of new changes for its driver-dedicated app. Changes include the ability for drivers to have…
Low: Mt. Gox victims targeted in new Bitcoin-stealing phishing scam
By Duncan Riley
Victims of failed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox are being targeted by scammers pretending to represent Kraken, Inc., the Bitcoin firm tasked with recovering funds from the company. The discovery was made by the security…
Report: Samsung planning to bring fully bendable smartphones to market in 2017
By Duncan Riley
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. may be bringing bendable smartphones to market as soon as 2017, according to one report Monday. Bloomberg, referencing “people familiar with the matter,” wrote that one model is said to fold…