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Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

By Alex Williams Aug 18, 2011

Amazon Web Services is combining two Amazon EC2 features: Spot Instances and Elastic MapReduce that will allow customers to launch and manage Hadoop clusters using unused EC2 capacity. According to Jeff Barr on the Amazon Web Services blog, customers will be…

Hewlett-Packard Splitting up after Earnings Call Shocker

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2011

Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard reported fairly flat Q3 results, and took the opportunity to make some major announcements regarding the company’s outlook and brand. HP reported revenue of $32.1 billion, up from $30.7 billion a…

BI Provider GoodData Raises $15M from Andreessen-Horowitz

By Saroj Kar Aug 18, 2011

SaaS startup GoodData has raised $15 million in a second round of funding, led by none other than Andreessen-Horowitz, along with other investors, Windcrest Partners, Fidelity Growth Partners and General Catalyst Partners. GoodData has…

Dell’s Sales Slump a Downer for U.S Stocks

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2011

U.S stocks took a dive after hardware giant Dell reported slow growth in Q2, and cut its forecast for the next quarter. Dell’s net income rose by 63 percent compared to the same period…

What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

By Alex Williams Aug 18, 2011

Krishnan Subramanian and I were chatting over Skype yesterday. Krishnan is a well-known analyst and blogger. He asked a question about a post I wrote this week that looked at ten startups in the…

Citrix Invests in 2 More Startups for Accelerator Program

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2011

Virtualization firm Citrix has recently invested in two up and coming startups as a part of its seed funding program, the Citrix Startup Accelerator. The two companies are Nukona, the maker of an app…

VMware Strengthens Offerings with Growing Partner Base

By Maria Deutscher Aug 18, 2011

VMware, EMC’s virtualization subsidiary, is taking several approaches to becoming even more established, as well as providing newer offerings that are more attractive to customers, one of them being the expansion of its partner base and…

Fix Big Data Issues with Big Data Insight: the Promise of Revolution

By Kristen Nicole Aug 18, 2011

There’s a new position that’s emerged from the booming big data sector–that of the data scientist. It’s a job that’s as fluid and pliable as the term big data itself, lingering between two worlds…

Clean Tech Boldly Going Where No Man has Gone Before

By Maria Pila Aug 18, 2011

There are a lot of Star Trek fans out there, and one of them is King Abdullah of Jordan. The Middle Eastern monarch, who was once an extra in an episode of Star Trek…

Windows 8 App Store to Compete with Apple, Google

By Mellisa Tolentino Aug 18, 2011

With the launch of the “Building Windows 8″ blog, project president Steven Sinofsky listed the features that Windows 8 will have but there was one particular feature that caught everyone’s eye, and it’s the…

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Amazon Web Services Offers Spot Market Capabilities for Managing Hadoop Clusters

Hewlett-Packard Splitting up after Earnings Call Shocker

Dell’s Sales Slump a Downer for U.S Stocks

What’s the Future of In-Memory Databases with SSDs Coming into Fashion?

Citrix Invests in 2 More Startups for Accelerator Program

Clean Tech Boldly Going Where No Man has Gone Before

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