BlueTalon, provider of unmatched data entitlement solutions for Hadoop, today announced the BlueTalon Policy Engine. The technology ushers in a new era of truly secure Hadoop clusters by enforcing granular data-centric access policies across the entire organization and for entire clusters. BlueTalon also announced $5 million in follow-on venture capital funding. Signia Venture Partners, Biosys … continue reading
Knowledgent, the data and analytics firm, and Tamr, the data unification solution provider, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver scalable big data unification and analytics solutions to client organizations in life sciences, financial services and other industries. As part of this partnership, the two companies will collaborate on big data analytics solutions that leverage … continue reading
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company founded by the team the developed Facebook’s data infrastructure, today announced the addition of Apache Spark to the Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform. With the addition of Apache Spark, QDS broadens the types of workloads data scientists and data analysts can run on demand via the cloud, without the hassles, … continue reading
RapidMiner, the industry’s easiest-to-use Modern Analytics platform, today announced significant updates to the most comprehensive advanced analytics offering on the market today. In a world where data lakes are often used solely as a repository for information, underutilized due to the state of the market and limits of technology, RapidMiner’s aggressive advances turn the tide … continue reading
Altiscale, Inc., the leading provider of Hadoop-as-a-Service, today announced that Kerberos authentication is now available in the Altiscale Data Cloud. Altiscale is the first and only Hadoop-as-a-Service provider that will automatically include Kerberos authentication as part of its service offering. Kerberos, originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is a user and network … continue reading
IBM shifts data science into high gear today with the announcement of new In-Hadoop analytics technologies to accelerate the conversion of data into valuable insight for the business. IBM is delivering machine learning, R, and many new features that can run over large-scale data in the new IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop. A growing number … continue reading
Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand Environments-as-a-Service (EaaS), today introduced Skytap running on SoftLayer infrastructure. This new offering enables enterprises to rapidly deploy software development and test environments that seamlessly migrate entire complex environments between Skytap and IBM cloud centers globally. Skytap’s EaaS environment allows customers to rapidly develop and test in the cloud, … continue reading
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced at Strata + Hadoop World the latest release of the MapR Distribution including Hadoop, which has new features that accelerate the data-centric enterprise by supporting real-time applications on globally-distributed, big and fast data. The latest innovations from MapR optimize data architectures, making … continue reading
Databricks announces DataFrames for Spark Apache Spark platform provider Databricks has announced DataFrames, a new API for Apache Spark 1.3 designed to simplify distributed data processing for more immediate Spark use. The DataFrames API was built to resemble R and Python data frames, providing a familiar interface for data scientists and building on the Spark … continue reading
In a move that begins to reposition the company alongside HP, Oracle and other full-stack enterprise software suite vendors, Pivotal today made several announcements around its Big Data offerings. Chief among these was the Pivotal Big Data Suite, which comprises Pivotal’s Big Data tools, all available under a single license. Not only is this suite … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it has adopted ISO/IEC 27018, becoming the first major cloud provider to adopt the international privacy standard. According to a blog post from Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president of legal and corporate affairs, the British Standards Institute has independently verified that Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM … continue reading
The U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it is developing a brain interface to inject images directly into the human visual cortex via a “cortical modem” chip implanted in the brain. DARPA announced the project at the Biology Is Technology conference this past week and subsequently in the transhumanist magazine Humanity Plus. DARPA Biological … continue reading
