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.
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.
A "catastrophic failure" in the state of Oregon's government data center has delayed unemployment payments to residents, the state said Tuesday. The outage began Monday night during scheduled storage maintenance.
Storage and big data companies Scality and WebAction receive funding to advance their offerings, and Avere Systems is selected for the Library of Congress and South American web hosting company Locaweb.
At a Backup to the Future event Wednesday, EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures.
In anticipation of the hurricane season, the U.S. Energy Information Administration launched an interactive mapping tool, which show not only the projected path of storms but how the storm might impact energy sources and infrastructure.