GigaomThe 5 stories that defined the big data market in 2014
There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk about what’s possible are finally giving way to some… Read more »
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There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk about what’s possible are finally giving way to some… Read more »
Sebastian Stadil has been managing cloud environments for years as the creator of the Scalr project and founder of the startup he built to commercialize it. It’s his business to know how… Read more »
Qubole, the Hadoop-as-a-service startup from Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, has raised a $13 million series B round of venture capital led by Norwest Ventures. Thusoo and Sen Sarma created… Read more »
Altiscale, the Hadoop-as-a-Service startup started by ex-Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata, has raised a $30 million series B round of venture capital led by Northgate, as well as previous investors Sequoia Capital… Read more »
There was a major shakeup in the world of container-based computing this week when operating system provider CoreOS decided to get into the container space with a new open source project… Read more »
A startup out of Las Vegas is trying to capitalize on a very difficult, and potentially very lucrative, opportunity within the internet of things. The company, called Terbine, wants to become a data broker for the… Read more »
Amazon Web Services didn’t announce any new price cuts at its annual re:Invent conference last month, but there’s more to the economics of cloud computing than just lower prices. Read more »
Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt spoke with Gigaom about how important data science and cloud computing are to the company’s business, as well as why the internet is the perfect… Read more »
Netflix is becoming famous for its open source cloud-computing tools, and two of its senior members explained why on this week’s Structure Show podcast. However, they note, while they love the… Read more »
Dating site eHarmony is overhauling its IT infrastructure with a lot of open source technology. CTO Thod Nguyen explains what the company is looking to use and why it made those… Read more »