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Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some
Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data company that spun out from EMC and VMware in 2013, is open sourcing its entire…
Read MoreHow EMC’s CTO is trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal orbiting the same sun
EMC CTO John Roese has a tough, but important job trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal all moving in the same direction. While the three are separate companies, their fates are also very much aligned.…
Read MoreWith Impala now GA, Cloudera’s CEO sizes up the SQL-on-Hadoop market
Cloudera's Impala engine for interactive SQL queries on Hadoop data is now generally available, and CEO Mike Olson gives his lay of the competitive landscape.…
Read MoreMeet Kaggle Connect: matchmaker for data scientists and companies that need them
Putting the right brains on the right problems is the goal of Kaggle Connect.…
Read MoreEMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”
EMC Greenplum rolled out a new Hadoop distribution that fuses the popular big data platform with its flagship MPP database technology. Co-founder Scott Yara thinks the company's huge investment puts it in the catbird seat among Hadoop vendors.…
Read MoreVMware sharpens its focus — and its knife
Hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, and end-user computing are all in. Other VMware efforts will be out in the upcoming year as the company seeks to regain focus.…
Read MoreGreenplum and Kaggle launch big data matchmaking service
EMC's Greenplum division hopes to encourage users of its Chorus big data application to reach out to the Kaggle community of data scientists to do real-world work. The company also inked partnerships with Gnip and Tableau and open-sourced a version of Chorus.…
Read More6 things we need to know from VMware
As VMware transitions from CEO Paul Maritz to CEO Pat Gelsinger and keeps pushing beyond its server virtualization roots, there are a lot of questions about where the company is headed. Here are 6 key issues the company should address at VMworld.…
Read MoreVMware’s non-denial denial on CloudFoundry spin-off
A recent internal VMware memo that has emerged via CRN says that our previously published report about VMware and EMC pooling assets such as Cloud Foundry and GreenPlum and spinning them off into a separate entity was "unfounded." It sounds like a classic non-denial denial.…
Read MoreWell played, EMC.
EMC might be smarter than we thought it was. If it handles the rumored spin-out and the Maritz-Gelsinger transition well, the companies under its banner could do great things. Of course, there are a lot of moving parts here and the transition won't be easy.…
Read MoreEMC plan: Let Pivotal be Pivotal
Pivotal Labs will keep on doing what it does best after EMC's acquisition, according to Pivotal CEO Rob Mee. There has been concern over Pivotal's future as part of the EMC behemoth, which Rob Mee did his best to alleviate at Structure: Data 2012.…
Read MoreEMC gets it: big data needs apps, too
EMC's acquisition of Pivotal Labs proves the company really understands the big data market. Namely, that big data won't go anywhere without great applications, and EMC isn't the company to help customers figure out how to build theirs.…
Read MoreWhen big IT goes after big data on the smart grid
With many utilities facing the task of storing petabytes of smart meter data for as long as seven years in order to satisfy regulatory requirements, the ability to house and leverage the massive load of data accumulating from the smart grid is a significant IT challenge.…
Read MoreCisco’s servers now tuned for Hadoop
Cisco and EMC have come up with a reference architecture featuring Cisco UCS server gear that's designed to run the EMC Greenplum MR software, the company's "enterprise-class" Hadoop distribution that features technology it OEMs from Hadoop startup MapR.…
Read MoreBig data adoption issues – What’s the big deal?
Big data today, is what the web was in 1993. We knew the web was something and that it might get big, but few of us really understood what “big” meant. Today, I believe we aren’t even scratching the surface of the big data opportunity.…
Read MoreEMC delivers on Isilon-Hadoop bundle
As promised, storage kingpin EMC has integrated its Isilon NAS product with Hadoop in a way that will bring Isilon's OneFS file system to bear on data. EMC isn't alone. Vendors from Amazon to Oracle are trying to tame this big data beast.…
Read More5 low-profile startups that could change the face of big data
The great thing about big data is that there's still plenty of room for new blood, especially for companies that want to leave infrastructure in the rearview mirror. At this point, the data-infrastructure space, including Hadoop, is well-funded and nearly saturated, but it also needs help.…
Read MoreWhy the era of big data is just beginning
With all the talk of big data, cynics think the whole notion has jumped the shark. Get ready, they say, for the next tech bubble to burst. EMC CMO Jeremy Burton is not among them. Granted, he's a marketer, but what he says makes sense.…
Read MoreIBM tunes big data appliance to retailers
IBM is working the reins of its Smarter Commerce initiative by rolling out a new Netezza analytics appliance designed to help retailers churn through potentially petabytes of consumer sales data in real time. It's trying to capitalize on the increased importance of e-commerce to revenues.…
Read MoreBirst, ParAccel team to put a pretty face on big data
In a meeting of analytics minds, Birst and ParAccel are putting Birst's graphical reporting gloss atop ParAccel's analytics database. Deals like this are the latest proof that big data is important but the ability to put that data into a useable format is also key.…
Read MoreNo more access to Google’s Hadoop cloud for researchers
Google announced that it's ending its Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, a joint program with IBM and the National Science Foundation that gave researchers access to a massive Hadoop cluster on which to run their data-intensive projects. The company says access to such resources is now common.…
Read MoreOracle learns the dark side of hardware
Oracle is finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the company's Sun Microsystems-rooted servers fell 14 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-ago period. And gross margin on those hardware sales is returning to earth.…
Read MoreIBM buys Emptoris for supply chain analytics smarts
IBM is buying Emptoris, a specialist in supply chain and contract management analytics, in what is the latest example of an entrenched IT provider's buying analytics and cloud capabilities. The move comes a week after IBM's $440 million buyout of DemandTec.…
Read MoreFrom privacy to cake pops: 5 deep insights on big data
Beyond Hadoop, there's a lot more to think about when it comes to big data, ranging from where companies will actually find workers to how they'll deal with an impending privacy-policy onslaught. The answers won't be easy to come by, but they could be critical.…
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