Rejecting the wheel: IBM and IoT | #SparkSummit
As the Spark Summit East 2016 event drew to a close on Thursday, energy and enthusiasm for the topics and technologies addressed at the gathering were still high, with attendees still engaged as they…
Red Hat Gluster Storage now available on Google Cloud
Building on its efforts to get its technology onto the major cloud service providers’ platforms, Red Hat Inc. announced that its Red Hat Gluster Storage software will be available on Google Compute Engine (GCE).…
A new model of data with streaming and Spark | #SparkSummit
Streaming data is changing the way people look at Big Data processing. The benefit of streaming is that data can be used as it comes in, rather than waiting for it to be sorted,…
Nvidia sets sights on PC gaming, VR, deep learning and self-driving cars after record year
By Kyt Dotson
Gaming and industrial graphics card chipmaker Nvidia Corporation has seen a record year—with 2016 fiscal revenue $5.01 billion, up 7 percent from $4.68 billion from last year. Quarterly earnings reported by Nvidia for Q4…
Nothing to sneeze at: Next gen sensors detect allergens, decode physical matter
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) and Consumer Physics, Inc. (CP) announced a collaboration to develop a sensor-to-cloud personal and industrial Internet of Things platform that analyzes liquids and solids, including food, plants, drugs, chemicals, the…
Zoombdata depends on Spark for its middle tier | #SparkSummit
Youth has its advantages. At less than four years old, Zoomdata, Inc., a visual analytics tool for Big Data, didn’t have to rebuild to accommodate cloud platforms and other newer technology. Its modern architecture, combined…
Is Spark more than just ‘special plumbing’? | #SparkSummit
As the Spark Summit East 2016 event continued into its final day, more discussion of Spark’s potential and how to bring it to consumers was shared by attendees. Looking at how to address its…
The Big Data revolution: How long will Spark be useful? | #SparkSummit
The Big Data revolution has changed almost everything in business, but what it hasn’t changed is the need for the right information, in the right hands, at the right time. This is the domain…
Twitchcon 2016 adds an extra day and moves to San Diego
By Eric David
Last year, Amazon-owned livestreaming service Twitch held the first ever Twitchcon in San Francisco, California, and the event was a huge success, with over 20,000 people attending. Twitch announced today that Twitchcon will be…
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NetApp to axe 1,500 workers in cost-cutting push
The global economic turmoil is starting to take its toll on the rank and file of the enterprise storage industry. NetApp Inc., the second largest array maker by revenue, this week launched a drastic…