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Opening Keynote | Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud – Myth or Reality?
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 Appcara, an innovator in cloud application management solutions, is using next week's Cloud Expo New York to spotlight technology advances for simplified launching and managing of large, distributed Hadoop workloads into both private and service provider clouds through the use of new c...Jun. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,049 |
 Hadoop is delivering on its promise to provide Big Data analytics for enterprises at a fraction of the cost of proprietary MPP systems. The combination of industry-standard hardware and open source software is the key combination behind this success.
In his session at the 12th Intern...Jun. 8, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,120 |
 In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Chris Swenson, Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services, and Ilya Musayev, a CloudStack Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation, will explain how the most common enterprise setups of bare metal and some virtuali...Jun. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,085 |
 The Open Group is planning a tweet jam around what it calls Platform 3.0 issues -- big data, cloud computing, the consumerization of IT and other current trends.
Over recent years a number of technologies -- cloud, mobile, big data, social -- have emerged and converged to disrupt the ...Jun. 4, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 809 |
 In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tony Shan, who was one of the key drivers inside IBM for the cloud reference architecture, and also helped coin "Cloud Engineering," will discuss lots of valuable best practices and lessons learned in designing cloud architecture and...Jun. 3, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,386 |
 Splunk, the software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, the Hadoop Big Data distribution start-up, have allied so organizations can get operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop.
Their pact means that data can be moved between Splunk Ente...May. 28, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,688 |
 Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that dat...May. 18, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,520 |
 Infor, the software company where former Larry Ellison lieutenant Chuck Phillips went after he was bounced out of Oracle to make room for ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd, is working on a Big Data initiative called Sky Vault that will leverage its own ION Business Vault and Amazon’s Redshift gussie...Apr. 30, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,689 |
 If you are interested in getting started with Java, or just object oriented programming, this is a great book to start with.
The book starts off with a high level overview of the Java platform and goes straight into an example of creating a hello world application. While creating the ...Apr. 30, 2013 08:55 AM EDT Reads: 1,418 |
 Big Data has made a huge splash in the enterprise world, but the legal and risk management implications are seldom discussed. It’s critical for businesses to assess these issues and develop a proactive strategy to protect the enterprise from costly errors.
Corporate policies and regu...Apr. 27, 2013 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,997 |
 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, intents to sponsor a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate public-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and tec...Apr. 25, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,219 |
 Big Data start-ups are like ants at a church picnic. They’re everywhere and they’re getting fed.
Guavus, which is focused on tier-one communications service providers and has kept a low profile for the past seven years, has just raised another $9 million, which makes a whopping $87 m...Apr. 22, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,234 |
 The Hadoop framework and SSD technology augment cloud data systems ranging from analytics to on-line transaction processing (OLTP) to data warehousing. The resulting balance of processing, networking, SSD storage, and Hadoop optimization results in improving Big Data sort responsivenes...Apr. 15, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,875 |
 Federal agencies spent close to $4.9 billion on Big Data resources during fiscal year 2012 and that number could grow to $5.7 billion in 2014.
Research firm Deltek estimates federal big data spending will grow to $7.2 billion by 2017 as agencies strive to handle ever-increasing volume...Apr. 11, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,615 |
 Enterprises can't close their doors just because integration tools won't cope with the volume of information that their systems produce. As each day goes by, their information will become larger and more complicated and enterprises must constantly struggle to manage the integration of ...Apr. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,965 |
 Xyratex, the UK data storage house that spun out of IBM in a management buy-out 20 years ago, is now a strategic supplier to AMD, which picked the Brit’s OneStor Modular Enclosure as a building block for its Big Data and storage-intensive solutions.
The Xyratex widgetry has been opti...Apr. 4, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,672 |
 The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has made CloudStack, which it took in as an incubator project a year ago, a Top-Level Program (TLP).
That’s supposed to mean that Citrix, which donated the IaaS OpenStack rival to Apache after acquiring it from Cloud.com in 2011, doesn’t have much...Apr. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,493 |
 After two years in development and six months in private beta, Platfora, the native in-memory Business Intelligence (BI) platform for Hadoop, has gone on sale.
The widgetry is meant to put business users directly in touch with Big Data and eliminate the need for complex and expensive...Mar. 28, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,977 |
 Move to the cloud, save some cash. So says a pair of recent surveys from CDW and Rackspace.
Companies that move IT capabilities to the cloud are saving money and growing profits, which are then put back into the business to increase headcount, boost wages and drive innovation, accordi...Mar. 28, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,572 |
 inovex GmnbH has just announced its partnership with C12G Labs to support the deployment and operation of OpenNebula-based enterprise cloud infrastructures, and the automation and migration of legacy systems. With OpenNebula as their software platform, inovex experts can set up cloud i...Mar. 24, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,074 |
 Today's applications need fast access to data for maximum performance.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software, will discuss how in-memory data grids combine distributed caching with powerful in-memory analysis an...Mar. 21, 2013 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,522 |
 MapR Technologies, the Hadoop technology concern, has gotten a $30 million C round of financing led by new investor Mayfield Fund. Existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures participated. The new money brings total funding to $59 million.
The new financing...Mar. 20, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,311 |
 Big Data applications such as Hadoop and Hive are becoming more widely adopted and mainstream. There is an increasing number of users who will select the cloud – whether private or public – as an efficient and scalable deployment vehicle for these large-scale distributed apps. Hadoop i...Mar. 17, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,489 |
 VMware’s top management vented at Amazon last week during the company’s annual Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas, telling the audience that they’re all doomed if the corporate world moves to Amazon’s infrastructure.
“We want to own the corporate workload,” CEO Pat Gelsinger sa...Mar. 11, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,784 |
 In the last couple of years Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data. This framework is so vast and popular that Microsoft recently announced, for the first time in its history, that it is going to invest in this large-scale, open-source project as its solution for Big Data.
In his ...Mar. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,572 |
 Finally, a low-cost cloud-based QA testing tool hits the market. After an extensive beta program by software testers at 500 companies from 23 countries, QASymphony announced general availability of qTest, a cloud-based enterprise test management solution.
The testing tool is aimed at ...Mar. 6, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,592 |
 A software-defined networking (SDN) consortium is forming – if that’s the right tense – the lines may have already been drawn.
It’s using the password “Daylight.” It’s supposedly got in mind an open source SDN controller. And it’s supposedly got it in for VMware. At least that’s the ...Mar. 5, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,372 |
 The worldwide public cloud market is projected to grow 18.5% this year to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, according to Gartner.
That number includes a 47.3% jump in Infrastructure-as-a-Service to $9 billion. IaaS was up 42.4% to $6.1 billion last year.
Gartner expects...Mar. 4, 2013 08:15 AM EST Reads: 4,168 |
 Intel has gone into the open source Apache Hadoop business with its own distribution, which it calls the Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop or simply the Intel Distribution.
Its reason for joining the Hadoop push is to sell more high-end Xeon server chips into scalable Hadoop clust...Mar. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 2,700 |
 Hortonworks said Tuesday that it’s put Apache Hadoop on Windows with its new enterprise-grade, production-tested Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows.
The 100% open source widgetry is the first and only Apache Hadoop distribution for both Windows and Linux. There’s an identica...Feb. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,317 |
 Compuware Corporation has partnered with Hortonworks to optimize the performance of Hadoop applications on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The integration of the Compuware application performance management (APM) solution with Hortonworks Data Platform provides complete visibility...Feb. 26, 2013 10:05 AM EST Reads: 2,916 |
 Skyera has gotten $51.6 million in series B financing led by Dell Ventures and a syndicate of other strategic investors to accelerate its next-generation enterprise solid-state storage solutions.
Skyera is supposed to be positioned at the forefront of the hyper-growth solid-state sto...Feb. 22, 2013 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,697 |
 Red Hat on Wednesday announced its Big Data direction and solutions to satisfy enterprise requirements for highly reliable, scalable, and manageable solutions to effectively run their Big Data analytics workloads. In addition, Red Hat announced that the company will contribute its Red ...Feb. 20, 2013 03:45 PM EST Reads: 4,093 |
 More. Better. Faster. Those are common themes development teams hear on a daily basis. In the rush to get new products out to market quickly, companies expose themselves to the risk of software failure. Java developers often turn to open source solutions to help protect themselves from...Feb. 19, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,081 |
 Apple has cut the price of its 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop by $200 and updated its processors. It’s also put out new models with faster processors and more memory. It said the MacBook Pro with a Retina display and 128GB of flash memory will now cost $1,499, down from $1,699. A new model...Feb. 17, 2013 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,847 |
 This book is both board and deep. Meaning it covers a ton of topics and goes in-depth on all of them. This book is great for the beginner, but also has a lot of advanced material.
After a nice introduction that explains the structure of the book the author starts off Part 1 covering t...Feb. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,554 |
 While enterprise IT is transitioning form on-premise deployment to an emerging architecture of hybrid cloud, IT professionals are facing unprecedented challenges to change from managing servers deployed on premise to managing services in hybrid cloud, at the same time extraordinary opp...Feb. 8, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,001 |
 IBM says it is buying the software portfolio of Star Analytics Inc, a privately held business analytics firm in California, on undisclosed terms.
The acquisition, another in a string of Big Data and analytics acquisitions, is supposed to advance IBM’s business analytics initiatives s...Feb. 5, 2013 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,982 |
 10gen, the outfit behind the open source MongoDB database, which has been downloaded 3.8 million times, has named its president Max Schireson CEO.
Former CEO Dwight Merriman becomes chairman.
Schireson has been at 10gen since 2011. He was once chief applications architect and VP fo...Feb. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 12,397 |
 Hard drives are dying and Flash is coming into its own.
So, sensing an inflection point, STEC, which has a long history in Flash, figures to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the fashionably huge volumes of data of late that have to go somewhere, the increasing availabili...Feb. 4, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,573 |
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