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Pentaho offers blueprint to keep data lakes from becoming swamps
Pentaho Corp. is throwing information-addled big data teams a lifeline with a blueprint that helps them create a stable and repeatable process for ingesting big data into Hadoop data lakes. “Filling the Data Lake” is a framework and process for untangling the web of incompatible data that many big data projects must contend with. Ventana ...
Former DoD chief talks leadership, big data and the ‘superficial’ 2016 Presidential campaign
TheCUBE has hosted thousands of technology executives, IT practitioners and gurus over the past five years, but rarely does a guest have the kind of big picture perspective of Dr. Robert M. Gates. As the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, he oversaw the world’s largest organization. He guided the transformation ...
Wikibon calls for security to become a board-level issue
Siloed organizations, lack of awareness of the value of data and the growing inevitability of attack are holding organizations back from taking a coordinated approach to information security, writes Wikibon Chief Research Officer David Vellante in a new report on Wikibon.com (membership required). Organizations have historically focused on perimeter defenses and keeping attackers out, but ...
Storage ‘whiz kid’ Walsh returning to IBM to run storage division
He just couldn’t stay away. Less than three years after leaving a position as vice president and business line executive for IBM Storage, Ed Walsh is returning, this time to run the whole show. Walsh confirmed that he will become general manager of IBM’s storage division on July 1, replacing interim GM Greg Lotko, who becomes vice ...
European facilities management giant buys in to IBM Watson IoT
European facilities provider ISS A/S has signed an agreement with IBM to use the Watson IoT cognitive computing platform to change the way it manages more than 25,000 buildings worldwide. The $75 billion firm will use Watson to manage its buildings more efficiently and improve the experience of people working in them. It plans to ...
IBM adds cloud option to mobile app development platform
IBM has taken its MobileFirst development platform to the cloud. The toolset, which was previously available only on premise, can now be provisioned quickly in the IBM Bluemix cloud. IBM is positioning the offering as a mix-and-match option, with customers having the choice of where to develop and deploy their applications without compatibility concerns. “We ...
Hortonworks tightens Hadoop security, intros Spark-based notebook for data scientists
As Hadoop Summit opens today in San Jose, CA, Hortonworks Inc. has some new goodies for the 4,000-plus people who are expected to attend. Version 2.5 of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) boosts security with improved dynamic classification capabilities that can be managed by policies. Customers can use Apache Atlas to classify and assign metadata ...
Dropped Wi-Fi making you crazy? Startup says it’s got your back
It happens to everyone. You’re at a conference, struggling to get a Wi-Fi connection while people around you are surf happily. You can see the Wi-Fi access point 50 feet away but can’t connect. Or even worse, you can connect but can’t receive or send any data. The founders of Mist Systems Inc., a startup ...
Catalogic copy management adds Oracle, SQL, EMC Unity support
Catalogic Software Inc. has added support for Oracle and SQL databases to its ECX software-defined copy data management (CDM) platform, along with integration with EMC Unity flash and hybrid storage arrays and native support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). ECX 2.4 also deepens integration with the Puppet automation platform. Catalogic claims to reduce enterprise ...
MapR to help admins peer into dense Hadoop clusters
MapR Technologies Inc. is tackling Hadoop’s administrative complexity with the announcement today of a new campaign it calls the Spyglass Initiative. It’s also taking steps to make its own product updates simpler to manage. The company is making a long-term commitment to deliver a series of enhancements to its Converged Data Platform that provide improved ...
