The number of IT facilities included in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) continues to grow. The number, which started at 432 in 1999, grew to 3,000 last year and has now exploded to nearly 7,000. The culprit: server closets.
DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop.
Fusion-io made several software contributions to open source this week, during the O'Reilly OSCON conference in Portland, Oregon.
Data is everywhere. PureSense provides apps and tools for farmers to manage and automate irrigation. The company is expanding its data center to accommodate 14 terabytes of data and 4 billion data records.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has terminated a $36 million contract with HP Enterprise services, initially announced last November. The reason cited was a material change in the agency’s requirements.
MapR M7 is now available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Fruit of the Loom implements a Teradata Data Warehouse, and HP updates its ArcSight Security Analytics portfolio using big data to protect critical information and mitigate risk.