After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of items: Microsoft’s collection of cloud data announcements (which also… Read more »
The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and… Read more »
Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »
The week in cloud. If you want to know how big your favorite vendor’s cloud business is — in scale, in revenue, in profitability … yeah, good luck with that. Read more »
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don’t gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA. Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »