Monthly Archives: October 2011

Internap Launches OpenStack-Based Open Public Cloud

Posted on October 30, 2011 by

On Thursday, Internap launched its Open Public Cloud compute product and subsequently claimed stake to the hotly contested title of “first commercial deployment of the OpenStack cloud computing platform.” In its press release, Internap noted that its Open Public Cloud … Continue reading →

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IBM Releases Big Data Software On SmartCloud; Cognos for iPad

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

On Monday, IBM announced the release of the Infosphere BigInsights application for analyzing massive volumes of structured and unstructured data on its SmartCloud environment. The SmartCloud release of IBM’s BigInsights application means that IBM beat competitors Oracle and Microsoft in … Continue reading →

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Oracle Acquires RightNow Technologies for $1.43 Billion

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Less than a week after its $1.1 billion acquisition of Big Data player Endeca, Oracle announced plans to acquire RightNow Technologies for $1.43 billion. RightNow Technologies delivers a cloud based technology platform that enables enterprises to deliver enhanced customer experiences … Continue reading →

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Oracle Continues Big Data Push With Endeca Acquisition

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

On Tuesday, Oracle announced plans to acquire Big Data player Endeca just weeks after unveiling its Big Data appliance featuring Apache Hadoop and an Oracle NoSQL Database. Endeca’s proprietary MDEX technology powers two products: (1) Endeca InFront; and (2) Endeca … Continue reading →

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SGI Partners With Cloudera To Resell Hadoop

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

SGI and Cloudera today announced a reseller partnership whereby SGI will sell pre-configured Hadoop clusters of hardware and software in addition to technical support. Under the terms of the agreement, SGI will distribute Cloudera’s Apache Hadoop (CDH) alongside its rackable … Continue reading →

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Battle for Big Data Heats Up As Microsoft and Oracle Announce Hadoop-based Products

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

The battle for market share in the big data space is officially underway, with passion. At last week’s Professional Association for SQL Server Summit (PASS), Microsoft announced plans to develop a platform for big data processing and analytics based on … Continue reading →

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Heroku Adds Support For Scala As PaaS Goes Multilingual

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

This week, Platform as a Service vendor Heroku added yet another language to its growing “polyglot platform.” Heroku now supports Scala, the Java virtual machine language that combines objected oriented and functional programming. Heroku began as a Ruby on Rails … Continue reading →

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HP Selects Ubuntu As Lead Host and Guest OS For OpenStack

Posted on October 8, 2011 by

One of the major announcements at this week’s OpenStack Conference in Boston was HP’s decision to use Ubuntu as the “lead host and guest operating system” for its OpenStack-based Public cloud. HP’s selection of Ubuntu marked a huge affirmation for … Continue reading →

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