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Stu Miniman on VMware’s Plan to Virtualize Hadoop
VMware is hoping to secure its place at the intersection of cloud and Big Data with Project Serengeti, a set of open-source tools designed to speed up the deployment of Hadoop in virtualized environments. At this week’s Hadoop Summit in San Jose, the company announced that the initiative is entering the next phase of its ...
WANdisco Brings Cloud Storage to Hadoop with WDD 3.6
Three months after introducing Linux support, WANdisco is unleashing an S3-enabled version of HDPS that brings public cloud functionality behind the firewall. WANdisco Distro (WDD) 3.6 supports all the features of Amazon’s popular file storage service, including searchable metadata tagging, snapshots, and data object versioning. The platform is compatible with the S3 API and packs ...
Hortonworks’ Funding Round a Win for the Ecosystem
Earlier this week, Hadoop distributor Hortonworks announced that it raised $50 million from Tenaya Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group and existing backers Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Yahoo. According to SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier, the round is a “big shot of adrenalin” for the Big Data industry. In Furrier’s view, the capital injection confirms that ...
Stamp of Approval from Oracle a Big Win for Hyper-V
Hyper-V, once considered an unworthy and incapable competitor to vSphere, recently gained an advantage over VMware’s platform in the form of Oracle support. On Monday, Larry Ellison’s firm announced that it has certified its Windows Server software lineup to run on the latest version of Microsoft’s hypervisor. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, ...
Criteo’s VP of Engineering on the Applications of MongoDB in Advertising
Julien Simon is the vice president of engineering for Criteo, a French firm that works with retailers to serve personalized banner ads to consumers. He recently stopped by theCube to discuss how his company uses MongoDB to turn petabytes of data into clicks and conversions. Simon tells co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly that Criteo ...
Cisco Injects Programmability into Networking Lineup @ Cisco Live
Cisco will support software-defined networking across its entire portfolio within the next 12 months, starting with the two new routers it unveiled at this week’s Cisco Live 2013 conference. The ISR 4451-AX is a high-performance branch platform that offers up to 2Gbps of forward performance with native WAN optimization. It’s complemented by the ASR 1000-AX ...
Datameer Simplifies Analytics with Self-Service Functionality
Datameer wants to make Big Data more accessible for decision makers with “Smart Analytics,” a set of self-service machine learning capabilities built into the newest release of its flagship solution. The toolset empowers users to “identify patterns, relationships, and even recommendations based on data stored in Hadoop” using a simple point-and-click interface. Smart Analytics covers ...
10gen’s VP of Education + Cloud on Online Courses and Backup
Andrew Erlichson, the vice president of education and general manager of cloud at 10gen, is very enthusiastic about his job. He told us all about it in a chat with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at last week’s MongoDB Days conference. Erlichson views the event as a golden opportunity to engage partners and ...
hackNY’s Founders Discuss the Local Hacker Scene
Evan Korth and Chris Wiggins, two computer science professors who run hackNY, stopped by theCUBE at MongoDB Days 2013 to discuss how their organization helps young developers enter the job market. Host Dave Vellante starts the interview by highlighting that hackNY is not an incubator; it’s an educational initiative that aims to federate the next ...
Wikibon to CIOs: Automate to Reduce Downtime
Scott Lowe, Wikibon analyst and founder of The 1610 Group, identified downtime as a major pain point for traditional IT shops. He advises CIOs who are struggling with system availability to adopt the following technologies and methodologies in order to “maximize their availability potential” of their infrastructure. Automation In Lowe’s experience, “the more that people ...
