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0xdata extends Hadoop abstraction layer with Scala support
Abstraction is key to effective enterprise analytics, with most companies unable or unwilling to hire a team of statisticians possessing the necessary know-how to make sense of their massive data troves. An emerging startup called 0xdata is trying to fill this talent gap with a unique machine learning platform that abstracts the complexity of MapReduce ...
Datameer raises $19M to keep up with “exploding” demand
Datameer, a provider of data analytics solutions for business users, announces this morning that it has bagged $19 million in a Series D financing round led by Next World Capital, an expansion-stage VC that that also backs Cassandra distributor DataStax and hybrid array maker NexGen Storage. Workday, Software AG and Citi Ventures also participated, alongside ...
IBM wins cloud security patent 1 day after getting hit by privacy lawsuit
In an ironic twist of fate, IBM announced that it has patented a new technique for detecting and blocking malicious code a day after being slammed with a lawsuit over its ties to the NSA’s espionage operations, which involve – among other things – the use of sophisticated malware. Big Blue’s newly received U.S. Patent ...
AWS and hyperspecialization: the more the better
Infrastructure is the secret to Amazon’s cloud dominance, so naturally the company has kept quiet about it. But last month at re:Invent 2013, vice president James Hamilton, an early advocate of commodity hardware who helped architect Microsoft’s data centers, opened up about the technologies that enable AWS to disrupt the economics of IT at petabyte ...
Amazon chooses Cloudera for stream analytics
Amazon has added support for Cloudera’s open source Impala project to its cloud-based Hadoop distro as part of a push to help customers gain faster insight into their growing troves of unstructured information. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) had previously only worked with Hive, an abstracted warehousing layer that Facebook cooked up back in 2009 to ...
HP and Broadcom innovate with open standards | #HPDiscover
Jerome Riboloun of HP and Greg Scherer, the vice president of server and storage strategy at Broadcom, hopped into theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit to discuss SDN with Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante. Hewlett-Packard recently upgraded its server lineup with Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge processors and added portfolio-wide support for some of the more advanced ...
HP helps ExactTarget run faster with flash | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard’s Vish Mulchand and Pete Robinson, a storage manager at ExactTarget, dropped by theCUBE at HP Discover to share how the Salesforce subsidiary is leveraging the 3PAR StoreServ 7450 all-flash array to provide better quality of service for its end-users. The Indiana-based ExactTarget sells digital marketing software that enables companies to engage their customers across ...
HP hyperscale director on the converged data center | #HPDiscover
Hewlett-Packard is bringing high-density computing into the enterprise mainstream, John Gromala, the company’s senior director of hyperscale product management, told theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at last week’s HP Discover summit. At the core of the hardware maker’s strategy is Moonshot, a line of low-power servers designed to help customers operate their data ...
HP Vertica boss on Big Data and innovation | #HPDiscover
In his latest appearance on theCUBE at last week’s Discover summit in Barcelona, Colin Mahony, VP and GM of HP Vertica, shared how the database maker fits into Hewlett-Packard’s analytics strategy. After being acquired by HP in March 2011, Vertica gained access to hardware, service expertise and channel resources that enabled it to expand into ...
Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation and virtualization
ServiceNow is doing its part to move the public cloud deeper into the traditional enterprise with an online ITSM platform that consolidates traditional IT silos into an easily manageable and highly automated single system of record. Last week the firm broadened its value proposition with a new tool that aims to change the way customers ...
