ResearchThe importance of benchmarking clouds
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Before you choose a cloud provider, evaluate factors like geography, certification, service level agreements, price and performance. Read more »
The social network giant’s new database management system will supposedly improve reliability and cut down on the downtime that occurs when a region server fails. Read more »
Nginx touts new numbers showing the use of its web server is on the rise, especially by the biggest websites. Read more »
Big data startup Continuuity has teamed with AT&T Labs on an open source project called jetStream that pairs a high-throughput SQL database with a real-time data-processing engine. The goal is to… Read more »
DataTorrent, a startup building a stream-processing engine for Hadoop that it claims can analyze more than 1 billion data events per second, announced on Tuesday that its flagship product generally available. Stream processing… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption for Hadoop environments, as well as others next-generation data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB. Read more »
Big data startup Concurrent has raised a $10 million series B round of venture capital from Bain Capital Ventures, Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures (Disclosure: True Ventures is also an investor in Gigaom)… Read more »
Investors are betting that companies will take to Trifacta’s interactive, visual management capabilities that allow users to organize and clean data without having to deal with coding. Read more »
Analytics is all the rage, with Hadoop and big data leading the hype. But the new technologies are not yet mature, a market full of startups is yet to shake out,… Read more »
Big data experts Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker launched a new data automation cleanup tool as part of the duo’s company Tamr. The software tool helps big companies organize sloppy data… Read more »