The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreGreenplum has announced its Unified Analytics Platform, a packaging of the Greenplum Database and Hadoop distribution along with its long-awaited Chorus software. Chorus is really what ties everything together, providing a platform to explore both types of data and to share interesting data sets and findings.…
Read MoreStorage giant EMC is adding more muscle to its Hadoop strategy with a 1,000-node cluster for testing new Apache Hadoop releases and a new analytics appliance combining EMC's Hadoop distribution with the EMC Greenplum Database.…
Read MoreBloomberg is reporting that HP plans to announce a $10 billion deal to buy Autonomy, a U.K. based software company that has bought up a variety of assets over the years to create an unstructured data storage and analyzing powerhouse.…
Read MoreAlpine Data Labs, a predictive analytics startup that incubated within Greenplum (now part of EMC), is expanding its support beyond the Greenplum Database and into Oracle's Exadata appliance and the open-source Postgres database. Alpine tries to distinguish itself by running entirely within companies' analytic databases.…
Read MoreInfobright today announced version 4.0 of its analytic database designed for machine-generated data, complete with a handful of innovations that should significantly the speed and accuracy of poring through piles of big data.…
Read MoreBeing able to process and understand big data has enabled new business models to emerge. But for the next generation of applications to flourish, EMC CTO Luke Lonergren says that data will need to be accessible even to folks that aren't necessarily data scientists.…
Read MoreA Yale computer science project has turned into a company giving Hadoop the ability to perform analytics on both structured and unstructured data. Hadapt launched today with an undisclosed amount of funding and the goal of making Hadoop more broadly applicable for analytics.…
Read MoreBig Data has been at the forefront of many vendors’ agendas lately. Perhaps no one has been leading the charge as vocally as Cloudera, but the question now is when Cloudera's stewardship and alliances will result in it getting snatched up by a large vendor.…
Read MoreBoxee CEO Avner Ronen stopped by our NewTeeVee Live conference last week to officially announce the first Boxee-branded hardware, a set-top box…
Read MoreWe are in the midst of a data mining renaissance. Traditionally, data warehousing implementations were large, complex and expensive, meaning only the…
Read More[qi:110] Aster Data Systems, a Redwood City, Calif-based startup that makes data warehousing software, has raised $12 million in new funding from…
Read MoreGigaOM’s Structure 08 event offered a terrific opportunity to survey the changing landscape of computing infrastructure. But as with all technology shifts,…
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