If you need proof that cloud deployment stories can touch off religious disputes, my recent report about @Walmartlabs deploying 100K cores of OpenStack to run the retail giant’s e-commerce operations is Exhibit A. This is,… Read more »
I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s a great example of the type of ambitious project… Read more »
Here’s a deal that has “corporate synergies” written all over it. VMware and Google are working together to make four Google cloud services available to corporate customers of VMware’s vCloud Air… Read more »
Despite what you may hear from the Linux-and-Mac crowds, a good chunk of today’s enterprise workloads run on Windows Server, which is why Google really wants them to also run on the… Read more »
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
Metanautix, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by a former Google big data expert and a former Facebook senior engineer, said today that its Quest engine for analyzing data is now available… Read more »
A researcher has analyzed the past 35 years of world history in order to find periods most similar to present-day Ukraine and Arab-Spring-era Egypt. It’s a great example of the power… Read more »