Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called Airpal that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… Read more »
Google has a new real-time messaging system available in beta for its cloud service called Google Cloud Pub/Sub, the company said on Wednesday in a blog post. The system in theory… Read more »
Google announced on Wednesday that the company is open sourcing a MapReduce framework that will let users run native C and C++ code in their Hadoop environments. Depending on how much… Read more »
Datadog, a startup that monitors the performance of users’ cloud computing servers, has acquired big data startup Mortar Data and intends to shutter the company’s existing cloud service. Mortar launched in… Read more »
There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is preparing to release its Cosmos big data system as… Read more »
The big stories this week all seem to revolve around numbers. Apple sold a whopping 74.5 million iPhones sold last quarter, for example. Qualcomm shipped 270 million mobile processors for devices in the last three… Read more »
Hadoop software company Cloudera has worked with Google to make Google’s Dataflow programming model run on Apache Spark. Dataflow, which Google announced as a cloud service in June, lets programmers write the same… Read more »
True disruption doesn’t mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. Read more »
Mark Cavage was Joyent’s former VP of engineering who spearheaded the company’s Manta object storage service and Ben Rockwood was Joyent’s former director of cloud operations. Read more »