Google: Computing’s ADD child
Google last week made a number of interesting announcements, many related to Android and its Google Drive and applications products. How many of these will actually become real and then live on is anyone’s…
CoreOS takes the fight to Red Hat with Managed Linux
CoreOS, one of the youngest new distros in the Linux family that relies on Docker containers to manage both the system and applications, has announced $8 million in series A funding. At the same…
Gartner predicts IT spending to grow, but only just
Enterprises are spending a less than anticipated amount of money on IT, according to the latest tidbit from Gartner. The analyst firm blames price pressure due to increased competition, a lack of product differentiation,…
MapR funding signals slow-rolling IPO, support for hybrid business model
Mere weeks after Cloudera earned funding support from Intel for its Hadoop-driven Big Data platform, rival MapR revealed its own massive round of $110 million in combined equity and debt financing. The $80 million…
Dataguise enters the governance horse race with new suite
Having established a name for itself as a provider of Big Data security tools, Dataguise is is tackling governance. The company used last week’s concluded Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in Washington to…
Smart homes get Quirky with Wink hub + connected devices
This week’s Smart Living roundup features INSTEON smart home devices hitting Microsoft retail stores, Quirky’s serious efforts in smart home market, and GE’s newest smart bulb. Insteon now available in Microsoft retail stores …
DataStax becomes latest vendor to jump on the Apache Spark bandwagon
The limitation of historical data analysis as a forecasting tool is spawning a rush by analytics providers to add real-time processing functionality to their offerings. DataStax, a company that sells an analytics suite based…
Life is like a tennis match; IBM brings mobile and analytics muscle to Wimbledon experience
Before I got out of bed this morning I checked the latest scores from Wimbledon on my smart phone and also listened to the match between French star Alize Cornet, who defeated number 1 seed…
California clears legal obstacles to Bitcoin’s use as money
By Kyt Dotson
The LA Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that removes obstacles to businesses legally accepting and trading in bitcoins in California. Assembly Bill 129 repeals part of California’s Corporations Code…
4 use cases for Spark : Transforming large-scale data analysis | #BigDataSV
Matei Zaharia, an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and the initial creator of Apache Spark, took the stage at Strata 2014 to speak about the Spark open source project and about the…