Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Trend Watch: Vertical Funds for HTML5, Big Data and More

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

One trend we’ve seen in the past few months is a rise in venture capital funds dedicated to specific verticals. There’s the Accel big data fund, Accel’s new India fund, the Atlas Venture\Bocoup HTML5 fund, the Intel AppUp fund for cross-platform mobility …

Who Keeps the ZooKeeper? Netflix Open Sources Apache ZooKeeper Tools

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Dell’s Crowbar plugin for Apache Hadoop wasn’t the only new Hadoop tool open sourced by a major company yesterday. Netflix released Curator, a set of libraries for working with Apache ZooKeeper. Zookeeper is a coordinator for distributed applications such as Hadoop. It’s …

Box Giving Away 50 Gigs of Free Storage to LG Android Users, Adds Offline Features and More

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Box today announced a partnership with LG along with new features for its Android app. As part of the new partnership, users who log into Box for Android on any LG phone running Android 2.1 or higher between now and March 31 …

Hadoop Alternative HPCC Now Available on Amazon Web Services

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

If you’ve been waiting for an easy way to test HPCC, the alternative to Apache Hadoop built and open sourced by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, then you’re in luck. Starting today HPCC Thor clusters will be available on Amazon Web Services. At the …

Amazon Web Services Planning Real-Time, Big Data Stream Processing Service

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

According to a job ad posted by Amazon Web Services, the company is planning to launch a new service for processing streams of big data. Here’s the job listing: Amazon Web Services is looking for a Senior Development Manager to lead the …

Dell Open-Sources Code for Hadoop Deployment Tool

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Crowbar is an open source deployment tool developed by Dell originally as part of its Dell OpenStack Cloud service. It started as a tool for installing Open Stack, but can deploy other software through the use of plug-in modules called “barclamps.” Today …

Puppet Labs Gets $8.5 Million from Google, Cisco, VMware and Existing Vendors

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Puppet Labs announced today that it closed $8.5 million in C-Seies funding with Google, VMware and Cisco as new investors. The investment brings Puppet’s total raised to $15.5 million. Its previous investors – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures and Radar …

What Are the Best Cities for Tech Jobs? A Look Beyond the Valley

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Joel Kotkin, a professor of urban development, and Forbes Magazine have published a list of the top 10 best cities for tech jobs in the U.S. The results are surprising – the Bay area doesn’t even hit the list. That’s because Kotkin …

Cloudant CEO: We’re Still Committed to Apache CouchDB

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

On Monday Canonical announced that it will no longer use Apache CouchDB as the basis for its structured data synchronization in Ubuntu One and would replace it with a custom built solution. The news was met with indifference from Couchbase, the company …

Google: Too Nerdy, or Not Nerdy Enough?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY15 YEARS AGO

Google has been catching a lot of flak over the past couple years, much of it along the lines of this post about Google Plus. The gist of it is that Google products are built by nerds, for nerds. In other words, …

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Latest from Klint Finley

Who Keeps the ZooKeeper? Netflix Open Sources Apache ZooKeeper Tools

Amazon Web Services Planning Real-Time, Big Data Stream Processing Service

Dell Open-Sources Code for Hadoop Deployment Tool

Puppet Labs Gets $8.5 Million from Google, Cisco, VMware and Existing Vendors

What Are the Best Cities for Tech Jobs? A Look Beyond the Valley

Cloudant CEO: We’re Still Committed to Apache CouchDB

Google: Too Nerdy, or Not Nerdy Enough?

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