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Cloudera broadens appeal, targets hybrid clouds in major update
Cloudera Inc. is coming prepared to the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 in New York this week. The company fired the opening shot for the landmark conference last night with a volley of major updates that significantly up the ante for rival Hortonworks Inc. The launch represents the first major update from Cloudera since ...
Eyeing unstructured data, EMC throws Isilon’s weight behind Cloudera Hadoop
Enterprise storage juggernaut EMC Corp. is rolling out support for Cloudera Inc.’s market-leading Hadoop distribution to its Isilon line of scale-out arrays in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the unstructured data pie, which is expected to account for 79.2 percent of all capacity shipped by 2017. The move is equal part necessary ...
With EMC, Lumenate is taking the 4 Ps approach to protecting its data | #CubeConversations
In the marketing world, the “four Ps” stand for price, product, promotion, and place. Lumenate Technologies LP has adapted the age-old formula for an entirely different item on the corporate agenda: data protection. Jamie Shepard, who heads backup and recovery operations for the Texas firm, returned to theCUBE for the second time in as many months ...
MongoDB gets more scalable with refocused (hybrid) cloud management service
MongoDB Inc. is stepping up efforts to monetize its wildly popular open-source database with a major upgrade to its complementary management service designed to taking some of the hassle out of configuring and provisioning the system. The launch comes as Oracle Corp., the kingpin of the enterprise database market, is also ramping up its cloud ...
Startup VoloMetrix nets $12M for people-focused analytics
There are countless solutions that apply analytics to streamlining the flow of enterprise operations, but the people who make the corporate machine tick don’t get as much attention. Startup VoloMetrix Inc. raised $12 million in Series B funding on Monday to fill the gap and help organizations improve the efficiency of their employees. Founded in ...
Box acquires medical collaboration startup MedXT to accelerate vertical pivot
Corporate file sharing powerhouse Box Inc. stepped up its efforts to reach vertical markets last week by announcing plans to acquire MedXT Inc., a little-known startup with a service for sharing medical data. No financial terms were disclosed. MedXT is the second graduate of the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator to have been picked up by ...
The Internet of Things will function like an organism, says Cisco exec | #Splunkconf
Today’s web is mostly the domain of people, but the Internet of Things is about to change all that, according to Cisco vice president of advanced services Sanjay Pol. Speaking on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded Splunk Worldwide Users Conference, Pol predicted that tomorrow’s Internet of Things will be as much about the devices as ...
Syncsort and Splunk cozy up to improve mainframe data analysis | #Splunkconf
Splunk Inc. provides a comprehensive platform for collecting and analyzing logs from a broad spectrum of devices ranging from the tiniest of sensors to the biggest and meanest enterprise servers. But the company’s definition of “comprehensive “didn’t extend to mainframes until late last month then Syncsort Inc., a mainstay of the big iron world, introduced a ...
Apache Spark heats up with support from 0xdata’s machine-learning platform
Hot on the heels of Hadoop distributor Hortonworks Inc. throwing its weight behind Apache Spark, the ultra-fast analytics engine has found another backer in 0xdata Inc., an emerging provider of machine learning software founded by industry veteran SriSatish Ambati. The Silicon Valley startup is launching a new addition to its flagship platform specifically optimized to ...
What you missed in Cloud: EMC making lock-in work as startups push for openness
The sheer number of moving parts involved in piecing together a full-blown hybrid cloud with comparable scalability and cost-efficiency as top infrastructure-as-a-service platforms make it all but impossible for the majority of organizations to fully realize the model. For EMC Corp., however, the solution to one of the biggest challenges that the industry has faced ...
