Category Archives: Notable News

4 March 2013: Manila Standard Today

Teradata Integrates Big Analytic Architecture Excerpt: The Teradata Unified Data Architecture leverages the complementary value of best-in-class technologies from Teradata, Teradata Aster, and open source Apache Hadoop, to enable users to ask any question, against any data, with any analytic, at … Continue reading

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21 February 2013: NewsFactor

IBM Goes Big with MobileFirst Portfolio of Solutions Excerpt: With MobileFirst, IBM has expanded the capabilities of IBM Worklight to simplify deployment with features like single sign-on capabilities for multiple applications. IBM also extended its context-based, mobile-access control solutions and expanded mobile-application … Continue reading

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18 February 2013: Datacenter Dynamics

Amazon Launches Redshift Data Warehouse Service Excerpt: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the wide availability of Amazon Redshift, a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the Cloud. Read more: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/02/amazon-launches-redshift-data-warehouse-service Related articles Overview of Amazon … Continue reading

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14 February 2013: SiliconIndia

MapR Technologies Announces New Reference Architecture for Big Data Workloads Excerpt: MapR Technologies, a Hadoop technology leader, announced that it has collaborated with HP to develop, configure and test a Reference Architecture for Big Data workloads built on HP ProLiant Generation … Continue reading

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13 February 2013: TechCrunch

A New Data Analytics Platform from Apigee Leverages APIs, Google Analytics and Other Data for Insight and Content Excerpt: The new service, Apigee Insights, looks at the community and draws connector points to create a better context about the individual and … Continue reading

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11 February 2013: InformationWeek

MasterCard Just Took a Stake in a Hot Big Data Startup Excerpt: Last week, the company’s subsidiary, MasterCard Advisors,  took an undisclosed stake in a big data analytics  company called Mu  Sigma. The two will offer joint products together using  … Continue reading

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10 February 2013: The Guardian

Software That Tracks People on Social Media Created by Defence Firm Excerpt: A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about … Continue reading

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6 February 2013: InformationWeek Government

DARPA Funds Python Big Data Effort Excerpt: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is spending $100 million over four years to advance big data technologies, recently awarded $3 million to develop data analytics and data processing libraries for popular … Continue reading

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1 February 2013: GigaOM

IBM Buys Big Data Analytics Company Star Analytics Excerpt: IBM is buying still more analytics expertise, picking up the software portfolio of Star Analytics, a company with expertise in automating the movement and management of workloads in hybrid computing environments. … Continue reading

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7 January 2013: Computer Reseller News

Partners and Priorities: Cisco’s Channel Chief Talks Exclusively to CRN Excerpt: As Bruce Klein succeeded Keith Goodwin atop Cisco (NSDQ:CSCO)’s Worldwide Partner Organization a few months ago, Cisco partners told CRN they wanted continuity and consistency: two hallmarks of what … Continue reading

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