The inaugural Spark Summit East conference is taking place in New York City this week, and many Big Data companies have seized the opportunity to announce new partnerships, product releases, integrations and Apache Spark services. Databricks announces ‘Jobs’ cloud feature, partnership with Tresata Databricks has announced a new feature for its Databricks Cloud called “Jobs” … continue reading
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 will be available this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. “I can’t wait to see how amazing companies around the world will continue to innovate with devices running Windows 10,” wrote Terry Myerson, executive vice president of operating systems at Microsoft, on the company’s blog. “Working together, I … continue reading
Enterprise software development generates a lot of bundles of files, from deployable artifacts to binary blobs. Keeping all of those artifacts straight has long been the task at which JFrog’s Artifactory excels. Now, containers are making it into the mix in a big way. Artifactory has supported Docker containers since September. This binary repository-management solution … continue reading
DataStax plans to take its key-value store and add graph capabilities with the release later this year of DataStax Enterprise Graph. On Feb. 3, DataStax snatched up the maker of the TitanDB graph database, Aurelius. The move might have been somewhat suspicious at the time, as DataStax had been focusing all of its corporate energy … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technology, today announced it has acquired the technology mzPivotGrid in response to significantly increasing customer demand. mzPivotGrid is a powerful analytics tool that empowers enterprise developers to build applications that can discover critical insights from massive sets of data. It is built on … continue reading
Software AG today launched Event Analytics for Adabas bringing the latest Big Data security technologies to protect sensitive, on premise business data. Event Analytics for Adabas dynamically monitors sensitive data used in critical business operations processed by the company’s high performance Adabas database. Any data access or updates outside of normal defined times, from unusual … continue reading
WANdisco, a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, today announced that it has accepted the invitation to join the Open Data Platform (ODP) Initiative – a shared industry effort to promote and advance the state of Apache Hadoop and Big Data technologies for the enterprise. Members … continue reading
Microsoft has announced an update to its data platform with new Big Data and media services. Microsoft Azure now features Azure Search and Azure DocumentDB. “For businesses to maintain a competitive edge in this complex and fast-changing climate, they need innovative ways to deliver the best customer experience with their products and services,” wrote Vibhor … continue reading
Machine-learning algorithms are everywhere. They’ve permeated the way platforms work in the cloud, in analyzing Big Data, and in making AI more intelligent. Now, a software-defined application delivery startup is using machine learning to streamline code performance. SmartSequence, the new HTML and JavaScript streaming technology from Instart Logic, uses real-time machine-learning techniques to sift through … continue reading
After eight years of development, Apache HBase officially reached version 1.0 yesterday. This stable release includes more than 1,500 bug fixes and changes, and has fully revised documentation. HBase is the database that runs inside of Hadoop, and can be used to store relational data from traditional data stores on the Hadoop File System. Michael … continue reading
Just a decade ago, the idea of the United States government being a Big Data warehouse for the public was silly. Today, however, the country has a chief data scientist for the first time in its history, and he showed up in Silicon Valley today to talk Big Data with the attendees of Strata. A … continue reading
Microsoft wants to help businesses gain valuable insights from their mountains of data. The company has announced the general availability of Azure Machine Learning, a managed cloud service for predictive analytics. “In mere hours, developers and data scientists can build and deploy apps to improve customer experiences, predict and prevent system failures, enhance operational efficiencies, … continue reading
