The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Hadoop 2.0 is now generally available. The update to the open source big data platform adds features like YARN, High Availability for Apache Hadoop HDFS, data snapshots for HDFS, NFS-v3 Access for HDFS, Windows support and more. According to release manager Arun C.
Avaya has made a host of new product announcements related to unified communications (UC). Most notable from an enterprise application development perspective is the Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which makes it easier for developers to add UC to their applications. “While we’ve had the premise of ‘communications-enabled business processes’ for
I had an informative call with Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation today. He went over the features of OpenStack’s new Havana release. Good stuff – but not the topic of this blog post. Of more interest, at least for now: his response to my question about