The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
Led by a husband and wife team, and two former Facebook engineers, Interana thinks it can make any company do analytics just like the big web companies. Its software is designed… Read more »
ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops,… Read more »
Alteryx has raised $60 million to help expand its fast-growing business, which straddles the middle ground between Excel and SPSS by trying to turn data blending and predictive modeling into self-service experiences. Read more »
This week in cloud: It was all-cloud-all-the-time at Oracle OpenWorld as Larry Ellison again vowed that Oracle will lead the world in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Good luck with that says… Read more »
Online verification expert Craig Silverman didn’t just want to write about hoaxes that make their way into the media, he wanted to help track and disprove them — so he created… Read more »
The new OpenPower Foundation sanctioned Power S824L server comes loaded with IBM’s POWER8 processor and Nvidia’s GPU accelerator and will be aimed at the webscale crowd. Read more »
Couchbase has built its own data store called ForestDB in order to boost the performance and efficiency of its family of NoSQL database offerings. ForestDB is open source and was designed… Read more »
Twitter is funding a new research project at MIT called the Laboratory for Social Machines, giving the lab $10 million over five years and access to both the real-time firehose of… Read more »
Oracle is helping customers carry their database technology investments to the cloud, step by step, as I reviewed in my last post. In this post we take a look at a… Read more »