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Oracle takes aim at Hadoop governance with Metadata Management suite
Amid exploding demand for data integration software in the Hadoop community, Oracle Corp. is rolling out a new way for organizations to track their information as it progresses through the analytics lifecycle. The launch completes the database maker’s lineup of governance solutions into a full suite on par with competing offerings from the likes of Talend ...
IBM unloads money-losing chip business, shocks investors with Q3 earnings surprise
After many months of wrangling, IBM finally managed to convince Globalfoundries Inc. to take over its unprofitable chip-making operations in a deal that will see Big Blue pay its long-time semiconductor supplier for the trouble rather than the other way around. The costly transaction marks a much-needed high point in the enterprise technology stalwart’s push ...
OpenStack landmark: Mirantis closes record-breaking $100 million funding round
Mirantis Inc. has snagged $100 million in funding to step up its campaign for OpenStack dominance amid increasing competition from both fellow startups and larger incumbent vendors vying for a slice of the hottest trend in the cloud. The record-breaking round, the company’s second, marks the biggest venture capital infusion in the history of the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Microsoft expands open source reach
Mirroring the trend in the data analytics space, open source is emerging as a key driver of innovation in the cloud, where the big vendors are wasting no time jumping on the bandwagon. Microsoft Corp. is leading by example and throwing its weight behind Docker in a landmark move set to bring the most buzzed-about ...
Hadoop maturity drives demand for data integration software, says Informatica VP
Data integration software has become the single most widely used category of solutions in new analytics projects, according to recently published Wikibon research, a trend that Informatica Corp.’s Todd Goldman sees as a natural part of the evolution of Hadoop. He appeared on theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently concluded BigDataNYC 2014 meet-up to explain why that’s ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop love fest in the Big Apple
The characteristically active analytics ecosystem went into overdrive for last week’s landmark Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 summit in New York to produce some of the most significant product updates in recent memory. Cloudera set the tone for the event the evening before the official kickoff with a major update to its flagship distribution of the ...
Attunity marketing boss: Hadoop moving into the mainstream | #BigDataNYC
The burgeoning analytics ecosystem is at an important crossroads, not only in terms of the strategic shift towards the cloud among the top Hadoop distributors but also – and more importantly – in user adoption, according to Attunity Inc. marketing head Lawrence Schwartz. The executive from the respected enterprise data management vendor returned to theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recently ...
Docker beefs up security in nod to enterprise developers
Docker Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake container engine that brings security to the fore for the first time since the project hit the scene a year and a half ago. Perhaps not coincidently, the launch follows hot on the heels of the startup teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to make ...
Hortonworks adds object storage and spiffier query language to Hadoop
Hot on the heels of Cloudera Inc. upgrading its version of the batch processing framework, rival Hortonworks Inc. is following suite with a new version of its own distribution that focuses on many of the same core areas as its better-funded competitor. The new release of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) places the emphasis not ...
Cray unveils Hadoop supercomputer in surprising marriage of old and new
Bucking the notion that Hadoop has to be run on off-the-shelf commodity servers, supercomputer maker Cray, Inc. surprised attendees at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 summit with the introduction of an integrated high-performance computing appliance built specifically to run the batch analytics framework. The launch of the Urika-XA follows months of testing with ...