In the new world of “data lakes,” where raw data is collected for subsequent discovery and analysis, lies the task of managed data ingestion. While data lakes may dispense with the… Read more »
Sqrrl, the big data startup whose founders used to work for the NSA, plans to announce Thursday that it is shifting its focus to cyber security with a new release of… Read more »
DataStax, the rising NoSQL database vendor that hawks a commercial version of the open-source Apache Cassandra distributed database, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has acquired graph-database specialist Aurelius, which… Read more »
Netflix is revamping the computing architecture that processes data for its streaming video service, according to a Netflix blog post that came out on Tuesday. The engineering team wanted an architecture… Read more »
NoSQL startup MongoDB is aiming to raise $100 million and has already taken in $79.9 million, according to a SEC document that the company filed this week and has confirmed to… Read more »
That Diet Coke in your hand didn’t invent itself. It’s the result of years of focus groups, surveys and data crunching—more commonly known as market research. Companies that produce consumer packaged… Read more »
Database startup MemSQL said today that it open sourced a new data transfer tool called MemSQL Loader that helps users haul over vast quantities of data from sources like Amazon S3… Read more »
For most organizations, building a modern-day cloud application that rivals something as clean and fast as Uber or Facebook is, obviously, not an easy-to-do task. The art of crafting a responsive… Read more »
If you want to hold onto your Bitcasa infinite-drive data long enough to move it somewhere else, you’ll need to pay Bitcasa $99 for an additional month, according to an order… Read more »