Partnership provides support for an instance of Spark that can be deployed on top of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

IBM believes Spark is the most significant open source project of the next decade. It's backing the statement up by committing thousands of researchers and donating machine learning technology to Apache Spark.

As customers increasingly outsource infrastructure in bid for agility, the deal gives ViaWest broader risk-management and compliance consulting capabilities

FedRAMP certification means agencies can buy provider’s IaaS cloud

Coming out of the University of Wisconsin, the startup claims to have rethought data-platform DNA.

HDP clusters can now be automatically provisioned in any cloud

Daniel Sturman has experience with some of the biggest distributed systems on the planet

Continues to expand its platform to serve increasingly distributed and real-time needs while keeping everything secure

Company will tie its predictive analytics and monitoring in with a la carte or turnkey facilities management services