By Dennis Moore on January 4, 2013
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, […]
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By Dennis Moore on July 6, 2012
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Dell is buying Quest Software. The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one involving resale (in the EU) of “used” software downloaded over the Internet. This could have wide-ranging impact on all digital media, not just software. There are still a lot […]
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By Merv Adrian on July 20, 2011
The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Big Data, BigInsights, Brisk, Cassandra, Cloudera, DataRush, Datastax, Eigenbase, EMC, Facebook, Flume, Hadapt, hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, ibm, InfoSphere, Isilon, Karmasphere, Linux, MapR, mapreduce, microsoft, Mondrian, NetApp, NFS, Oozie, Open source, oracle, OSS, pervasive, Pig, Platform Computing, SQLStream, Sqoop, Watson, Yahoo, zookeeper |
By Merv Adrian on November 28, 2010
Over the past two years, Cloudera has demonstrated the power of surrounding emerging open source software with support services, expertise and its own IP. The firm has racked up over 30 customers since its founding in late 2008, and emerged as the leading source of Apache Hadoop. Cloudera’s recent C round of financing brought its […]
Posted in Business | Tagged ADBMS, Big Data, Cassandra, Cloudera, crippleware, failover, Flume, hadoop, Industry Trends, Informatica, key-value store, mapreduce, Membase, memcached, MongoDB, mySQL, NoSQL, OLTP, Open source, RDBMS, Riak, Sqoop, SSD
By Michael Coté on October 13, 2010
Some interesting tech startups in Austin.
Posted in Business | Tagged austin, betterjunkmail, BigData, Cassandra, Dachis Group, geolocation, Gowalla, ideas, InfoChimps, MindQuilt, Riptano, social software, spiceworks, startups, Systems Management, The New Thing |