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Cloudera Partners With Hadoop Managed Services Provider MetaScale to Help Large Traditional Enterprises Adopt Apache Hadoop

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:54:58 EDT

Cloudera Inc, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, today announced that Hadoop managed services provider MetaScale has joined Cloudera's rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Cloudera Connect. MetaScale specializes in solutions for traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises across all industry verticals looking to efficiently establish and grow their Big Data expertise, experience immediate tactical success and begin to build out their fundamental Big Data capability in an organized and precise fashion. As the only company able to provide a full spectrum of services focused on Big Data in the virtual private cloud, MetaScale is partnering with industry leader Cloudera to enable customers to take advantage of Hadoop without an upfront investment in skills and resources.

Even More Enhancements With Apache Subversion 1.7.5

Thu, 17 May 2012 12:37:10 EDT

WANdisco, a leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate contributor to the Subversion project, has announced that the latest release of Apache Subversion is available for free download from www.wandisco.com/subversion/download, and also through uberSVN, the award-winning platform that recently came out of beta testing.

Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 EDT

Okay – this is easy… or is it? Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.

VMware Advances Cloud Application Platform With VMware vFabric(TM) Suite 5.1

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:32 EDT

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1. With new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL database, VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 will provide the core application services required to build, run and manage Java Spring applications whether on-premise or in the cloud.

Actuate and Hortonworks Collaborate to Visualize Big Data

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:52 EDT

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), the people behind BIRT^® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced a collaboration between Actuate BIRT and the Hortonworks Data Platform, to enable Big Data visualization. The Hortonworks Data Platform is a completely open source, tightly integrated and tested distribution of Apache Hadoop, backed by extensive customer support and training.

A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop

Sat, 12 May 2012 09:00:00 EDT

There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be the easiest to understand and the most fun.

10gen to Speak on Enterprise Big Data and Scaling With NoSQL at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab Event

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:04:31 EDT

10gen, the company behind the leading open source NoSQL database MongoDB, today announced that President Max Schireson will take part in a panel discussion on Big Data and how enterprises have taken note of how disruptive scaling is painless with NoSQL technology. The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab event takes place on May 15, 2012 at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and will be moderated by Robert Scoble, startup liaison officer at Rackspace Hosting. Additional speakers include: Doug Cutting, chairman of the board of directors at Apache Software Foundation and founder of Hadoop; Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, database server technologies, Oracle; James Phillips, director, co-founder and senior vice president, products at Couchbase.

Monitoring JBoss with Monitis – Part 3

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:16:21 EDT

In the last post of the series, we saw how to use the Monitis JMX agent to collect JDBC connection pool metrics from JBoss. While the connection pool performance is often the most important thing to monitor, there are a multitude of other metrics available in JBoss that are worth exploring. AJP vs HTTP Connectors [...]

Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Technologies Featured at Sensors Expo & Conference 2012

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:44:25 EDT

The explosion of digital data created by mobile sensors, social media, surveillance, medical imaging, smart grids and more, combined with new tools for analyzing it all, has increased the opportunity to generate value and insights from this big data. The Big Data & Cloud Pavilion will feature Exosite, MicroStrain and SQLstream as well as others on the Expo Floor at the upcoming Sensors Expo & Conference, taking place June 6-7 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL.

Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data

Wed, 09 May 2012 08:00:24 EDT

Organizations today have little to no idea how much lost opportunity is hidden in the vast amounts of data they've collected and stored. They have entered the age of total data overload driven by the sheer amount of unstructured information, also called "dark" data, which is contained in their stored audio files, text messages, e-mail repositories, log files, transaction applications, and various other content stores. And this dark data is continuing to grow, far outpacing the ability of the organization to track, manage and make sense of it.

Y U No Support SPDY Yet?

Tue, 08 May 2012 05:45:00 EDT

Mega-sites like Twitter and popular browsers are all moving to support SPDY – but there’s one small glitch in the game plan…

SPDY is gaining momentum as “big” sites begin to enable support for the would-be HTTP 2.0 protocol of choice.

Most recently Twitter announced its support for SPDY:

Twitter has embraced Google’s vision of a faster web and is now serving webpages over the SPDY protocol to browsers that support it.

SPDY is still only available for about 40 percent of desktop users. But with large services like Twitter throwing their weight behind it, SPDY may well start to take the web by storm — the more websites that embrace SPDY the more likely it is that other browsers will add support for the faster protocol.

-- Twitter Catches the ‘SPDY’ Train

But even with existing support from Google (where the protocol originated) and Amazon, there’s a speed bump on the road to fast for SPDY:

There is not yet any spdy support for the images on the Akamai CDN that twitter uses, and that's obviously a big part of performance. But still real deployed users of this are Twitter, Google Web, Firefox, Chrome, Silk, node etc.. this really has momentum because it solves the right problems.

Big pieces still left are a popular CDN, open standardization, a http<>spdy gateway like nginx, a stable big standalone server like apache, and support in a load balancing appliance like F5 or citrix. And the wind is blowing the right way on all of those things. This is happening very fast.

-- Twitter, SPDY, and Firefox

The “big pieces” missing theme is one that’s familiar at this point; many folks are citing the lack of SPDY support at various infrastructure layers (in particular the application delivery tier and load balancing services) as an impediment embracing what is certainly the early frontrunner in the HTTP 2.0 War. While mod_spdy may address the basic requirement to support SPDY at the web server infrastructure layer, mod_spdy does not (and really can not) address the lack of support in the rest of the infrastructure.

Like the IPv4 to IPv6 transition, the move to support SPDY is transitory in nature and counts on HTTP 2.0 adopting SPDY as part of its overhaul of the aging HTTP protocol. Thus, infrastructure must maintain a dual SPDY-HTTP stack, much in the same way it must support both IPv4 and IPv6 until adoption is complete - or a firm cutover date is arrived at (unlikely).

U No Support SPDY because SPDY Support is No Easy

The use of SPDY is transparent to the user. But for IT the process of supporting SPDY is no simple task. To understand the impact on infrastructure first take a look at the typical steps a browser uses to switch to SPDY from HTTP:

The first request to a server is sent over HTTP
The server-side end-point (server or application delivery service), when it supports SPDY, can reply with an HTTP header 'Alternative-Protocols: 443:npn-spdy/2', indicating that the content can also be retrieved on this server on port 443, and on that port there is a TLS 1.2 endpoint that understands NPN and SPDY can be negotiated
Alternatively the server can just 301 redirect the user to an https end-point.
The client starts a TLS connection to the port described and when the server-side end-point indicates SPDY as part of the TLS NPN extension, it will use SPDY on that connection.

What this means is that infrastructure must be updated not just to handle SPDY – which has some unique behavior in its bi-directional messaging model – but also TLS 1.2 and NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation). This is no trivial task, mind you, and it’s not only relevant to infrastructure, it’s relevant to site administrators who want to enable SPDY support. Doing so has several pre-requisites that will make the task a challenging one, including supporting TLS 1.2 and the NPN extension and careful attention to links served, which must use HTTPS instead of HTTP.

While you technically can force SPDY to be used without TLS, this is not something a typical user will (or in the case of many mobile platforms can) attempt. For testing purposes, running SPDY without TLS can be beneficial, but for general deployment? SSL Everywhere will become a reality. Doing so without negatively impacting performance, however, is going to be a challenge.

Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processing power on the server than on the client.

-- THC SSL DOS Tool Released

The need to support secure connections becomes a big issue for sites desiring to support both HTTP and HTTPS without forcing SSL everywhere on every user, because there must be a way to rewrite links from HTTP to HTTPS (or vice-versa) without incurring a huge performance penalty. Network-scripting provides a solution to this quandary, with many options available – all carrying varying performance penalties from minimal to unacceptable.

PROS and CONS

Basically, there are a whole lot of pros to SPDY – and a whole lot of cons. Expect to see more sites – particularly social media focused sites like Facebook – continue to jump on the SPDY bandwagon. HTTP was not designed to support the real-time interaction inherent in social media today, and its bursty, synchronous nature often hinders the user-experience. SPDY has shown the highest benefits to just such sites – highly interactive applications with lots of small object transfers – so we anticipate a high rate of early adoption amongst those who depend on such applications to support its business model.

Supporting SPDY will be much easier for organizations that take advantage of an intelligent intermediary. Such solutions will be able to provide support for both HTTP and SPDY simultaneously – including all the pre-requisite capabilities. Using an intermediary application delivery platform further alleviates the need to attempt to deploy pre-production quality modules on critical application server infrastructure, and reduces the burden on operations to manage certificate sprawl (and all the associated costs that go along with that).

SPDY is likely to continue to gain more and more momentum, especially in the mobile device community. Unless Microsoft’s Speed+Mobility offers a compelling reason it should ascend to the top of the HTTP 2.0 stack over SPDY, it’s likely that supporting SPDY will become a “must do” instead of “might do” sooner rather than later.

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TIBCO Spotfire Brings the Power of Data Discovery to Big Data and Extreme Information

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:22 EDT

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced TIBCO Spotfire® 4.5, the latest version of its analytics platform that builds upon its groundbreaking visualization-based data discovery and collaboration capabilities to now encompass all types of extreme information, including big data. With the introduction of the newest version of its in-memory analytics platform, Spotfire® continues to advance "dimension-free" data exploration for structured and unstructured information, while providing new predictive analytics capabilities and the ability to create private-branded Spotfire analytics solutions for the iPad® mobile digital device. Together, the new capabilities allow organizations to leverage all types of data to discover and predict business outcomes and deliver insights to a wider community.

Actuate Announces Cloudera Alliance to Support Apache Hadoop and BIRT Developers in Big Data Integration

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:03:06 EDT

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT), “The people behind BIRT”^® and the leading open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor, today announced an alliance with Cloudera, creator of Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), and the leading provider of Hadoop-based software, services and training.

WANdisco's Subversion Access Control Comes to uberSVN

Thu, 03 May 2012 11:14:32 EDT

WANdisco's award winning, free to download and free to use ALM platform for Subversion, that features innovative social coding capabilities and an uberAPPS store for all of your ALM needs.

Hortonworks Vice President of Corporate Strategy to Present at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:32:26 EDT

Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and support of Apache Hadoop, today announced that its Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Shaun Connolly, will be presenting at Goldman Sachs Cloud Computing Conference, being held May 8 in Menlo Park, Calif. Connolly will be featured in a panel discussion titled, “Data: The New Competitive Advantage.” He will be joined by representatives from 1010data, GoodData and Pentaho.

What I Think You Should Know about GSA: They have some GREAT tech leaders

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:58:39 EDT

There is no excuse for the abuses we are learning about at GSA. We should all be bothered by the waste, fraud and abuse and I hope the government moves fast to correct the failures of leadership evident in these problems. Something else should bother us. The bad apples at GSA who either conducted these [...]

Another Vote for the Apache Hadoop Stack

Wed, 02 May 2012 10:00:00 EDT

The two primary commercial providers that signed on for the proprietary files systems – IBM and EMC (via partnership with MapR) – have retrenched. As we’ve noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either comes as part of a captive open source project, where a vendor unilaterally open sources their code (typically hosting the project) to promote adoption, or a community model where a neutral industry body hosts the project and gains support from a diverse cross section of vendors and advanced developers. In that case, the goal is getting the formal standard to also become the de facto standard. The most successful open source projects are those that represent commodity software – otherwise, why would vendors choose not to compete with software that anybody can freely license or consume? That’s been the secret behind the success of Linux, where there has been general agreement on where the kernel ends, and as a result, a healthy market of products that run atop (and license) Linux. For community open source projects, vendors obviously have to agree on where the line between commodity and unique value-add begins.

MapR Named a Big Data 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:10 EDT

MapR Technologies, the provider of the industry's most advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced it has been named a technology vendor recognized in the Gartner report: "Cool Vendors in Information Infrastructure and Big Data, 2012." Authored by Merv Adrian, Donald Feinberg and W. Roy Schulte, the April 2012 report evaluates companies with innovative technologies. Within the past year MapR has gained significant traction in the industry for its advanced distribution for Hadoop.

BlazeMeter Sponsors First JMeter Meetup in Silicon Valley on May 9th, 2012

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:18:15 EDT

BlazeMeter, the load testing JMeter cloud, today announced the first JMeter Meetup for QA professionals and web developers looking to learn more about JMeter load and performance testing.

Open Data Center Alliancesm Creates Data Services Workgroup to Accelerate Big Data and Content Management Solutions to Enterprise

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:20:26 EDT

Recognizing the challenge faced by IT in managing a forecasted 6.7 times growth of data within the enterprise over the next 5 years, the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) today announced the formation of a Data Services Workgroup chartered to document the most urgent requirements facing IT in their management of data towards competitive opportunity. The Data Services Workgroup will focus initially on big data by documenting usage model requirements towards increasing enterprises’ ability to securely collect, manage and analyze this data. Accelerating enterprise IT’s ability to use cutting edge database solutions for near real time insight into business decisions, and driving interoperability among big data frameworks and traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions will be the primary objectives of the workgroup. As part of the new charter, the Alliance will collaborate with big data industry leaders Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies, which have announced membership in the organization today, as well as leading data management solutions provider members, including Teradata and SAS, in matching industry delivery of open solutions with prioritized IT requirements.

Lucid Imagination Announces High-Profile Key Speakers for Lucene Revolution Boston 2012

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:00:09 EDT

Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, is pleased to announce speakers for Lucene Revolution Boston 2012, the largest conference for the Apache Lucene/Solr open source search community.

WANdisco uberSVN 12.4 Open ALM Platform Arrives

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:45:00 EDT

Apache Subversion commercial services company WANdisco has announced that with the release of uberSVN 12.4, the open ALM platform is now officially out of beta. This week marks another milestone for uberSVN: it has now been twelve months since the Subversion-based platform was first launched. “uberSVN has had a fantastic first year. Not only have we won industry awards and accolades from the IT media, but we’ve had an overwhelming positive response from the community – all while the product was still in beta,” said David Richards, CEO and co-founder, WANdisco.

Award Winning uberSVN Platform Moves Out of Beta

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:18:32 EDT

WANdisco, the leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate sponsor of the Subversion project, has announced that with the release of uberSVN 12.04, the open ALM platform is now officially out of beta. This week marks another milestone for uberSVN: it has now been twelve months since the Subversion-based platform was first launched.

IBM’s Buying Vivisimo for Its Big Data Push

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EDT

In the name of its Hadoop-based Big Data platform, IBM is buying Carnegie Mellon spin-off and enterprise search house Vivisimo on undisclosed terms. The Pittsburgh ISV, which has its own search and navigation system, is supposed to be good at “capturing and delivering quality information across the broadest range of data sources, no matter what format it is, or where it resides,” providing a “single view across the enterprise.” It’s all automated and can be used standalone or embedded. Vivisimo saw all of $5.66 million in funding from 2000 through 2008 according to CrunchBase, including a $4 million A round led by North Atlantic Capital.

Big Data Analytics: Datameer

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EDT

Datameer provides a big data solution that focuses on perhaps the most important niche in this growing domain, the end-user. Here is an introduction from their website: Datameer leverages the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop to deliver an end-user focused analytics platform for big data. Datameer overcomes Hadoop’s complexity and lack of tools [...]

Cloudera KK to Help Spur Hadoop Adoption in APAC Region

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:15:00 EDT

Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, today announced that it has established a Japanese subsidiary, Cloudera KK, and an office in Japan. Cloudera's formal presence extends availability of its products and support offerings to Japanese enterprises that have deployed or are seeking to deploy Apache Hadoop and related technologies in the Hadoop stack to unlock business insights from their Big Data.

Systems Integrator NS Solutions Partners With Cloudera for Big Data Push in Japan

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:54:00 EDT

Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, and NS Solutions, a leading systems integrator in Japan, announced today that they are partnering to provide Cloudera's products to the Japanese market. This partnership will significantly expand the ability of Japanese companies to leverage Big Data by reducing the technical barriers to entry to using Apache Hadoop in production.

Cloudera Partners With IBM to Bring Big Data Insights to Joint Customers

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:31:37 EDT

Cloudera, the leading provider of enterprise-grade Apache Hadoop data management software, services and training, today announced it is partnering with IBM to integrate Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager with IBM's Big Data platform. Together, these technologies will deliver a world-class solution that enables organizations across sectors to harness the transformative power of Big Data analytics.

IBM Advances Big Data Analytics with Acquisition of Vivisimo

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:01:56 EDT

ARMONK, N.Y., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vivisimo, a leading provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data across the enterprise. Vivisimo is a privately held company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Pentaho Introduces New Interactive Visualization and Expanded Big Data Analytics

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:00:36 EDT

ORLANDO, Fla., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced the general availability of Pentaho Business Analytics 4.5. With this release, Pentaho provides new user-driven, interactive visualization and data exploration capabilities that access all data sources, including big data, as well as a pluggable and extensible interface for software and SaaS companies to easily add third-party visualizations.

IBM Launches PowerLinux Solutions to Help Customers Increase Efficiency and Insights

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:01:29 EDT

ARMONK, N.Y., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new IBM PowerLinux Systems and Solutions to help customers exploit the cost efficiency of Linux and virtualization for business-critical workloads. IBM PowerLinux Solutions offer deep integration of new Linux-specific POWER7 processor-based hardware with industry-standard Linux software from Red Hat and SUSE for analyzing Big Data, managing industry-specific applications and delivering open source infrastructure services.

Sears Holdings Announces New Venture With Addition Of MetaScale(SM)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:00:22 EDT

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), today announced the addition of a wholly owned subsidiary called MetaScale, a best-in-class provider of technology managed services and data solutions. MetaScale specializes in solutions for traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises across all industry verticals looking to efficiently establish and grow their big data expertise, experience immediate tactical success and begin to build out their fundamental big data capability in an organized and precise fashion.

Lucid Imagination Technology Integration With SugarCRM Lets Customers Enjoy Improved Global Search Capabilities With Apache Lucene/Solr

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:15:01 EDT

Lucid Imagination, the commercial company for Apache Lucene/Solr enterprise search technology, today announced new technology integration with SugarCRM, the world's fastest-growing customer relationship management (CRM) company, and LucidWorks. The integration allows SugarCRM customers to gain all of the benefits of search and discovery using the world's best known open source search solution, Apache Lucene/Solr, right inside their software. The announcement was made at SugarCRM's 6th annual SugarCon event, an annual customer, user and partner conference being held April 23-26, 2012 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Cloudera Delivers CDH4 Beta

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:01:10 EDT

Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, services and training, today announced that version four of Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH4) is now available in public beta. Integrating feedback from enterprise customers and partners with the contributions of Cloudera's engineering team and the larger Apache open source community, the new release marks a major advancement in the evolution of the Hadoop platform. With robust new features and expanded functionality that deliver high availability (HA), increased security and improved extensibility, CDH4 offers a stable, integrated, enterprise system for Big Data management.

Fujitsu Releases Software Supporting the Utilization of Big Data

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:44:22 EDT

Fujitsu today announced the development of new software offerings that help customers utilize big data. The new products consist of two product families: a line of parallel distributed processing and complex event processing products -which are standard technologies in big data applications - and a line of products to employ big data in a wide range of uses. Fujitsu plans to gradually roll out the new products worldwide.

Attunity Reports First Quarter 2012 Results

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:00:57 EDT

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

MapR Technologies CTO to Speak at Big Data Analytics Conference

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:30:00 EDT

MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the industry's most advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced that Cofounder and CTO M.C. Srivas will be a speaker at the Indian Institute of Technology's Big Data Analytics conference, part of its Pan IIT Innovation Series.

Pegasystems Announces Hadoop Big Data Support

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:45:00 EDT

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and software for customer centricity, today announced integration with Apache Hadoop to enhance its industry-leading predictive and adaptive analytics offering.

Hadapt Adds Big Data Industry Veteran Christopher Lynch as Chairman of the Board of Directors

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:00:41 EDT

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hadapt, creator of the first big data platform combining Apache Hadoop and relational DBMS, today announced that Big Data industry veteran Christopher Lynch has joined the company's Board of Directors as Chairman. Lynch was most recently Senior Vice President & General Manager, Vertica Systems at Hewlett-Packard.

Lucid Imagination Announces General Availability of LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:00:14 EDT

Continuing its drive toward offering a unified approach to enterprise-wide information discovery, Lucid Imagination announces the 2.1 release of its flagship product, LucidWorks Enterprise. Built atop Apache Lucene/Solr 4.0-dev, LucidWorks Enterprise provides capabilities that enable search of both structured and unstructured data located across an organization. Enhancements in scalability, high availability, performance, security and ease-of-use make LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1 a rich and significant product release.

DataSift Launches Big Data Week, Bringing Together the Greatest Minds in Big Data From Around the World

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:01:01 EDT

Big Data Week, a series of community-led events and hackathons relating to Big Data, kicks off on 23rd April in the UK, US, Germany, Finland and Australia. With the exploding volume, velocity and variety of digital data being created, how companies can manage and analyze this Big Data is emerging as a growing imperative and opportunity. Big Data Week will bring together the communities of data scientists, data visualizers, data technologists and CIOs to gain a better understanding of the diverse aspects of Big Data, from the technology challenges to the commercial opportunities.

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer Receives Fourth Consecutive WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:15:21 EDT

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that its log analytics and compliance reporting product, EventLog Analyzer, has been selected as the second runner-up in the Event Log Monitoring category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards. This is the fourth consecutive year that EventLog Analyzer has made it to the top three, having won the award in 2010.

Pervasive RushAnalyzer and Cloudera Eliminate Barriers to Rapid Hadoop ROI

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:02:04 EDT

Pervasive Software® Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, today announced that it is working with Cloudera to break down the barriers to rapid, successful adoption of Apache Hadoop, with the certification of Pervasive RushAnalyzer™ 1.2.2 as Cloudera Certified Technology.

VaraLogix Announces Expanded Support for Application Deployment to Private Clouds, Public Clouds and Virtual Environments

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:00:32 EDT

AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VaraLogix® , the leading provider of automated application deployment, application management and configuration management – in one solution, today announced expanded support for application deployment to private clouds, public clouds and virtual environments. This latest release of their flagship product, VaraLogix Q, includes new, out-of-the-box functionality for dynamic resource creation and release with building blocks supporting Amazon, VMware®, Microsoft® cloud and virtual environments. Out-of-the-box building blocks for deploying to servers in pre-existing resource pools through direct access to the pool manager or load balancer including hypervisor support for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware, as well as load balancer support for F5® and Citrix® NetScaler. With this latest release, VaraLogix is the only vendor to provide support for rolling deployments. This allows groups of servers to be removed from the cluster during deployment and then be re-added upon successful completion – automatically followed by the next arbitrary server group until all servers in the cluster have the appropriate application components deployed.

Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:31:28 EDT

NEW YORK, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:

Dell Drives Collaborative Innovation with Emerging Solutions Ecosystem

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:00:57 EDT

Dell today announced its Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, a partnership program designed to deliver complementary and interoperable best-of-breed hardware, software and services components as part of its emerging technology solutions such as the Dell Apache Hadoop Solution and the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution.

AMAX Announces the Big Data Haiku Contest

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:00:00 EDT

Are you an engineer who's a poet at heart? Are you a poet who's an engineer at heart? AMAX, a leading innovator of Big Data, Private Cloud and Storage solutions, today announced a new Big Data Haiku contest celebrating its PHAT-Data (Peta-Scale Hadoop Analytics Technology) solution.

WANdisco Announces Release of Apache Subversion 1.6.18

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:31:49 EDT

WANdisco, the leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, and a major corporate sponsor of the Subversion project, has announced that Apache Subversion 1.6.18 is available from the WANdisco website, and also through uberSVN, the free, open ALM platform for Apache Subversion. uberSVN users also have the option of toggling between the latest 1.7 releases of Subversion and the 1.6.18 release, from inside their uberSVN installation using the 'SVN Switch' feature.

CollabNet Provides TeamForge ALM Platform for Alembic Foundation's Aurion Open Source Healthcare Project

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:03:26 EDT

BRISBANE, Calif., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet (www.collab.net), a global leader for enterprise cloud development and Agile ALM products and services, today announced that its TeamForge ALM solution is being used by the Alembic Foundation in support of Aurion, an open source project that enables the secure exchange of interoperable health information among diverse organizations using a wide variety of technologies. The Alembic Foundation (www.alembicfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization founded by former leaders of the Federal Health Architecture's CONNECT project, is leading the development of open source applications that will expand information sharing capabilities industry-wide to improve the efficiency, openness and public value of the national healthcare system.

Cloud Foundry Ecosystem Celebrates First Anniversary

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:03:00 EDT

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today celebrated the first birthday of Cloud Foundry, the industry's open platform as a service (PaaS), with announcements of new partnerships, a new system for managing open source software contributions, new tools for operating large-scale services, and additional multi-cloud deployment choices.