So here’s some irony for you: For years, Andy Palmer and his oft-time startup partner Michael Stonebraker have pointed out that database software is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Companies, they said,… Read more »
Early Altiscale customers include digital media and advertising companies eager to take advantage of big data but don’t necessarily know a node from a hole in the wall. Read more »
NewSQL database player sees big opportunity from a new generation of Internet of Things-enabled applications and will use this money to attack it. Read more »
This is a tough question that White House advisor John Podesta and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab brain trust wrestled with on Monday. Read more »
The week in cloud: Dell, Microsoft, HP trot out a bewildering array of alliances hoping to entrench their respective cloud technologies worldwide. Already entrenched, AWS scrambles to meet demand for new… Read more »
The metro Boston area has good database DNA dating back to Digital’s Rdb. Those good genes are resurfacing in a fresh crop of database startups clustered in the area. Here are… Read more »
Big data’s fine; the right data’s a game changer. Serial database entrepreneur Andy Palmer — who co-founded Vertica Systems and VoltDB — sees this massive amount of diverse big data as… Read more »
It may not be Silicon Valley but the Boston-Cambridge metro area has a lot going for it — infrastructure expertise, a deep talent pool, and VC funding. Facebook famously went elsewhere,… Read more »
In this era of cheap-and-reliable renta-data centers run by Amazon, Rackspace, and others, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on it’s own? Unsurprisingly, Amazon’s… Read more »