What Did Dell Have to Do with Curiosity the Mars Rover?
Dell apparently had a hand in sending Curiosity to Mars, or at least in getting it to the red planet’s surface in one piece. According to a fresh release that the company must have…
TRILL and Brocade Prove Central to 300% Annual Growth for IaaS Vendor
Denver-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider PeakColo may not have the name recognition of Amazon and Google in the marketplace, but with 300% annual growth, it has the market mojo to challenge these market leaders. PeakColo’s…
Accenture Boosts Pharma Business with Octagon Buy
IT consultancy Accenture has expanded its presence in the healthcare market with the acquisition of Octagon Research Solutions, a company that deals with clinical data management and offers regulatory services. Terms of the deal…
Most Professionals Aren’t Smart Enough for Big Data
By Saroj Kar
Today, companies see social networking and big data as an opportunity to develop their business. But before embarking on a promising big data strategy, a company must educate itself on the value of social…
How Big Data Helps African Youth Shape the Future of Their Continent: Q&A with Appfrica Founder Jon Gosier
As a data scientist, social entrepreneur, and founder of data analysis startup, MetaLayer, Jon Gosier aims to make complex technological knowledge, once reserved for specialists, accessible to a broad audience. MetaLayer’s simple interface offers…
Jaspersoft, DataStax Set Out to Make Cassandra Easier
Jaspersoft is a maker of BI tools that enables business users interact with their organization’s big data. This technology will be integrated with DataStax Enterprise, a platform that’s built on top of the Cassandra…
Tintri Targets SIs, Services with New Partner Program
Tintri offers a VM-enabled NAS solution that is partially based on flash, specifically optimized to run in virtualized environments. Today the startup launched the Tintri Lightning Partner Program, which offers more incentives to the…
eBay Using OpenStack Open Source Cloud and Nicira For Dev/Test
The OpenStack open source cloud platform has a major e-commerce backer in its corner, now that eBay’s gone public with details of its implementation, as InfoWorld reports. Of special note: Even though eBay is…
MapR Partners with Nimbula to Bring Hadoop to the Private Cloud
MapR is joining forces with software startup Nimbula to get its Hadoop distribution running in the private cloud, and there are a few solid very reasons why it decided to go with this particular…
How we do Big Data to Compute for the Large Hadron Collider
By Isha Suri
We have seen Big Data utilized for several big computing applications, and it will now serve for computing for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It’s because the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) is…