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Big Data releases: MapR M7, 1010data v6 ship; MapR gets LucidWorks search
MapR optimizes HBase and starts distributing Lucene-powered search. SaaS data discovery provider 1010data ships new version.
CA Technologies chief: 'We've got heavy and slow, it's time to get back in the gym'
Q&A: How CA Technologies' new chief executive Mike Gregoire wants to push the mainframe management giant into a new world of agile development and software as a service.
Cloudera, Splunk, 10gen and SoftLayer/Basho announce new products
Impala 1.0, Splunk App for Enterprise Security v2.4, MongoDB Backup Service and Riak service on Softlayer all announced today.
HP boasts its SDN fabric cuts provisioning down from months to minutes
The software-defined networking space is starting to get heated as more tech giants try to make up for pitfalls in their PC units.
Health informatics: A new megatrend
The IT side of health care will be transformative over the next decade.
IBM launches MessageSight, appliance aimed at M2M
The IBM MessageSight appliance is aimed at the auto industry, cities and states managing traffic, oil and gas and home appliances.
Australian organisations unprepared for new privacy laws: McAfee
As the Australian Privacy Commissioner and Attorney-general warn businesses to prepare themselves for upchanges to the Privacy Act, McAfee has found that most don't even realise that there are changes or fines for non-compliance.
SkySQL-MariaDB merger: What should you expect?
How will the planned merger between MariaDB creator Monty Program DB and support firm SkySQL strengthen the hand of the open-source fork in the wider MySQL world? We talk to the new company's CEO.
Messaging standard for machine-to-machine sensors makes headway
One version of the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol could boost applications for the Internet of things.
Actian acquires ParAccel
Fresh off its acquisition of Pervasive Software completed two weeks ago, CA spin-off Actian acquires MPP Data Warehouse player ParAccel, whose technology powers Amazon Redshift.
EMC's Pivotal Initiative takes off with enterprise PaaS debut
The new enterprise Platform-as-a-Service from EMC and VMware taps consumer trends but realizes that not all businesses are interested in big public clouds.
EMC's Q1 falls short, customers cautious on IT spending
"Customers are still being very cautious with their IT spending. For sure most orders are subject to greater scrutiny and many enterprises are now requiring a higher level of executive sign-off," says EMC CEO Joe Tucci.
Facebook sheds details about new datacenter in Iowa
The world's largest social network has more room to grow with the opening of a new datacenter in the Midwest.
Pearson acquires Learning Catalytics; cloud-based education tech
The educational publishing giant continues on its recent spree of technology-focused acquisitions.
Serena Software: Heed 'the DevOps movement'
The U.S. IT company adds new capabilities to its Orchestrated IT platform to speed up enterprise application development.