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SwiftStack raises $16 million to mobilize OpenStack for unstructured data
OpenStack continues to draw interest from the venture capital community, with SwiftStack Inc. raising $16 million on Monday to make the cloud operating system more attractive for ingesting the vast amounts of unstructured data pouring into the corporate network. The funding comes days after Mirantis Inc. closed a record-breaking $100 million round to drive the adoption ...
It’s adapt or die for system integrators in the Hadoop era, according to Cloudwick’s CEO | #BigDataNYC
Traditionally, organizations that want to implement new technology hire a small army of consultants to make up for the lack of in-house skills, but Cloudwick Inc. CEO Mani Chhabra believes that data analytics is reversing that pattern. He believes professional services are actually catalyzing the adoption of new solutions such as Hadoop. The industry veteran ...
Aerospike CTO touts need for speedy database to supplement Hadoop | #BigDataNYC
Hadoop provides a highly efficient means of storing and processing unstructured data, but for all the buzz surrounding the project, it doesn’t address the equally burning need to make the results available to users when they need them – which these days means on the spot. For that, companies have to turn to vendors such ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack fever and an uneasy alliance
The battle for the enterprise cloud continues to heat up as players on both sides of the competitive divide step up their efforts to secure dominance in the future of corporate computing. Last week saw a shotgun wedding of sorts between two technology titans, but it was the open-source camp that set the pace when Canonical ...
SUSE bundles Docker and processor optimizations into major new Linux distro
SUSE LLC, the longtime second fiddle of the commercial Linux universe, is introducing a brand new version of its flagship distribution that levels the playing field against arch-rival Red Hat Inc. on multiple key fronts while adding several distinctive enhancements. The launch comes two months after the German firm unveiled the latest release of its ...
What you missed in Big Data: Oracle, eBay join Hadoop open-source party
The past week has seen not one but two technology giants take on a bigger role in the open-source community’s efforts to bring modern analytics within the grasp of the traditional enterprise. Online retail giant eBay Inc. led the charge with the contribution of a homegrown OLAP engine that it said makes querying Hadoop both ...
HP launches commercial OpenStack distro along with developer and customer goodies
Hewlett-Packard Co. has moved another step closer to realizing its lofty vision for a homegrown hybrid cloud with the introduction of the long-awaited commercial version of its OpenStack distribution and two complementary products aimed at helping customers make more of the software. The launch comes hot on the heels of the soon-to-split enterprise giant upgrading ...
Riding container craze, Bracket Computing exits stealth backed by $85 million
The notion of encapsulating applications into standardized containers that can be seamlessly moved across different types of infrastructure has turned originator Docker Inc. from an unknown service provider into the center of the hybrid cloud frenzy in the span of just a few months. Now, a new player called Bracket Computing Inc. is looking to steal ...
Pew says 40 percent of online adults have been harassment victims
Amid growing concerns over trolls and online harassment, Pew Research Center has released a released new research that concludes that nearly three-quarter s of online adults have witnessed the phenomenon and 40 percent have been victims themselves. While the results may be unsurprising, they put hard numbers on the dark underbelly of an experience that many ...
eBay joins open-source community with ultra-fast OLAP engine for Hadoop
Like arch-rival Amazon.com, the soon-to-split eBay Inc. is something of an oddity in that it hasn’t historically been a big contributor to the open-source community. But the e-commerce pioneer hopes to change that with the release of the source-code for a homegrown online analytics processing (OLAP) engine that promises to speed up Hadoop while also ...
