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Obama signs executive order to build world’s first exascale supercomputer
The next big breakthrough in supercomputing may not come from IBM Corp, Cray Inc. or any of the other original pioneers of the field but rather a new interagency task force formed through an executive order this week with the goal of building the world’s first exascale cluster. That represents a more than order of ...
DataTorrent debuts free data integration service to complement its ultra-fast Spark alternative
DataTorrent Inc. is wasting no time adjusting to its new status as an open-source company. Merely two months after releasing its homegrown data crunching engine for Hadoop under an Apache 2.0 license, the analytics provider is launching a free companion tool designed to help users move their information into the analytics framework more easily. There are already ...
HP buys Stackato, the PaaS powering its hybrid cloud, from long-time partner
The latest acquisition in Hewlett-Packard Co.’s renewed shopping spree should come as little surprise to customers. The technology giant has bought Stackato, a platform-as-a-service toolkit developed by a Canadian partner called ActiveState Software Inc. that has been shipping with its public cloud for the last three years. There reason why HP chose the technology over ...
Alibaba invests a billion dollars to dethrone Amazon in the public cloud
Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is opening a new competitive front against arch-nemesis Amazon Inc. with a billion dollar investment in its cloud business that will help fuel expansion to three additional continents. It’s an ambitious move taken straight out of the IBM Corp. playbook, or perhaps more appropriately, checkbook. The enterprise technology ...
Amazon launches its ultra-fast relational cloud database out of beta
Another week, another new service from Amazon Inc. hitting the market. Originally revealed at its re:Invent cloud conference last year, Aurora is a homegrown relational database with automated scaling that promises to provide five times the price-performance ratio of traditional alternatives, particularly the open-source MySQL system. In practical terms, that means that a single instance ...
Google to cloud buyers: No need to trust us, use your own encryption keys
The growing concern over privacy has finally caught up to Google Inc., at least in the public cloud, where its widely used infrastructure-as-a-service platform received a small but important update this morning that brings customers the ability to protect their data using their own encryption keys. That provides a much-needed alternative to the default security functionality It’s not ...
CliQr revamp its hybrid cloud portability platform for a containerized world
The shift towards containerized applications is causing major strategic changes even for vendors that have been early to recognize the demand for portability and fast release cycles that is driving the trend. The latest example is CliQr Technologies Inc., which debuted a new iteration of its flagship hybrid cloud management platform this morning that aims to ...
Yozio raises $7 million to help companies supercharge their mobile presence
Even though consumers now spend considerably more time on their smartphones and tablets than PCs, organizations often struggle to drive adoption for their mobile apps due to the lack of many of the marketing capabilities available on more traditional platforms. That’s according to a startup called Yozio Inc., which raised $7 million in funding this ...
IBM ups the scalability ante for its cloud-based data warehouse
After a series of high-profile investments in cloud-based data warehousing startups, IBM Corp. is joining the fray with an update to its own managed analytics platform aimed at leveling the playing field against the younger competition. The focus in the new iteration of dashDB Enterprise is scalability. The service combines the company’s homegrown in-memory storage management ...
What you missed in Big Data: Security smarts
Security took back the spotlight in the analytics world last week after Palantir Technologies Inc. raised another $450 million from investors in a round that brings its valuation to a reported $20 billion, an exceptional figure even in a time when Silicon Valley’s ten-figure club is at its biggest in recent memory. The capital will go straight ...
