Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers… Read more »
There has been a spate of product announcements and integrations over the past few weeks signaling that many big data workloads — including, and especially, Hadoop — will soon be ready… Read more »
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly just switched its entire IT footprint to Amazon Web Services, saving money and improving performance in the process. As clouds keep getting cheaper and better, resistance to… Read more »
Parse.ly Co-founder and CTO Andrew Montalenti shares his views on how startups can best keep their costs down and options open by using cloud computing wisely. But it’s a fast-moving market,… Read more »
Rackspace revenue continued to rise during the third quarter, but growth was slow and profits were down year over year. The company chalks up the latter to increased forward-looking investments, but… Read more »
Rackspace has opened its Hortonworks-powered Hadoop service for early access customers, about a year after announcing it would be building the offering. It’s neither the first nor the last managed Hadoop… Read more »
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly moved its production application off of Rackspace in 2011 to save costs. Two years later, it has watched Amazon Web Services costs drop precipitously, and now CTO… Read more »
Rackspace VP of Technology Nigel Beighton shared his thoughts on the most important tools in the cloud at Structure: Europe. If you want to get the most out of the cloud,… Read more »
Rackspace grew its public cloud revenues 36 percent year over year, to $99 million. That’s steady growth, although hardly the meteoric growth its chief rival Amazon Web Services seems to be experiencing. Read more »
Rackspace VP of Intellectual Property Van Lindberg was one of six tech-industry executives testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about intellectual property on Thursday. He highlighted the value of open source… Read more »