Enterprise Hadoop provider Cloudera announced a European partnership for delivering analytics as a service, and AMD's SeaMicro has obtained CDH4 certification from Cloudera for its SM15000 server.
NVIDIA tackles GPU-powered big data, accelerated virtual desktops, and a visual computing appliance, unrolling multiple announcements at its GPU Tech Conference in San Jose this week.
It's been a week full of big events for big data and analytics. In the news: MapR closes $30 million in funding, Hortonworks expands its European operations, and Gartner sees Big Data entering "trough of disillusionment."
According to a report in Federal Computer Week (FCW), the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with Amazon Web Services to build a private cloud infrastructure.
Web hosting provider DreamHost experienced an extended outages when power systems failed at its data center in Irvine, Calif. The incident created hours of downtime across Tuesday and Wednesday for many of DreamHost's more than 350,000 customers.
SunGard Availability Services believes business continuity services should be simpler for its customers to manage. It has launched SunGard Assurance(cm), a continuity management software as a service offering designed to be more user friendly for...
MongoDB is hot. 10gen has now released version 2.4 of MongoDB, which has a slew of new features and a new enterprise version to keep the MongoDB momentum going.
The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft's web-based email services. Both Hotmail and Outlook.com were offline for up to 16 hours after a failed software update caused the heat to spike in one part of...
The scope of Superstorm Sandy has altered disaster planning for many data centers, which now must consider how to manage regional events in which travel may be limited across large areas due to fallen trees and gasoline shortages, restricting the...