A common dilemma facing many companies that have a ton of gear in their data centers is having to figure out which hardware appliance is causing bottlenecks that may cause downtime… Read more »
After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of items: Microsoft’s collection of cloud data announcements (which also… Read more »
InterConnect 2015 Las Vegas is the combination of a few IBM conferences. Past conferences carried quite a bit of overlap in content. As the conversations blurred, it made sense to combine… Read more »
Metamarkets, a San Francisco startup providing streaming analytics to advertisers, has raised a $15 million round of venture capital. Data Collective led the round, which also included John Battelle and City National… Read more »
For businesses wanting to run the Kubernetes cluster management framework for containers on OpenStack clouds, Google and Mirantis have teamed up to make that happen more easily. The OpenStack Murano application catalog technology promises to ease… Read more »
The internet-of-things identity management outfit Evrythng, which partnered up with Samsung not long ago, has struck another strategic partnership deal – this time with a new LED lighting player called Gooee… Read more »
eBay has a new open-source, real-time analytics and stream-processing framework called Pulsar that the company claims is in production and is available for others to download, according to an eBay blog… Read more »
Microsoft on Monday released a white paper explaining a current effort to run convolutional neural networks — the deep learning technique responsible for record-setting computer vision algorithms — on FPGAs rather… Read more »
Druid, an open source database designed for real-time analysis, is moving to the Apache 2 software license in order to hopefully spur more use of and innovation around the project. It was… 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 »