How Google Music Compares to iTunes, Spotify
There are so many music services available today that you’d have to ask why Google Music is such a big deal. I’ll tell you why, because Google Music takes on two giants: Apple and…
Hadoop Gets Another Vote of Confidence From Microsoft
It appears Hadoop has yet another fan: Microsoft. ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is putting LINQ to HPC, its distributed runtime and associated programming model for unstructured data analysis at scale, on ice. Codenamed…
Cisco and Vyatta: Competitive or Compatible?
Earlier this week, Vyatta raised another $12 million for its virtual network security technology. In an interview with Vyatta executives on Monday I asked about their competitors. Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell said they are…
DDN Storage Fusion Gets Boost from IBM, New Offerings
Data-aware storage systems maker DataDirect Networks has expanded its big data appliance strategy with a new team-up with IBM. The Big Blue is consolidating its clustering solutions under a new name, the IBM Intelligent…
Informatica Rolls Out Cloud 2012
By Klint Finley
Today Informatica announced the pre-release of its new data integration platform called Informatica Cloud 2012, which should be generally available in January 2012. Among its features is a contact validation service that verifies postal…
New Relic Gets $15M for Performance Monitoring App
Software-as-service provider New Relic announced it has closed a $15 million round of funding led by DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group. Investors Allen & Company, Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Trinity Ventures also…
Digital TV Gains Investor Interests on a Global Scale
We can’t deny the fact that digital TV is a quickening trend. It is estimated that at the end of 2011 there will be more than 35 million connected TVs and by 2012, over…
Occupy World of Warcraft: The Allure of Virtual Gold
By Kyt Dotson
With the Occupy Wall Street protests reaching the hearts and minds of millions and raising the specter of the difference between the haves and the have-nots, the economy of many nation-states come into question.…
Apache Hadoop Update Marks Milestone for Ecosystem
This week, Hadoop received its first update in more than a year. Apache 0.23.0 features a number of new and extended functionalities including HDFS federation, which improves the data analytics engine’s ability to scale;…
DataSift Launches Twitter Data Analysis and BI Platform in the US
By Saroj Kar
Twitter real-time analysis platform DataSift has pushed out official launch in the US today. The British company, which built its commercial filtering and organizing through reams of Twitter data in real time, is moving its…