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Microsoft Launches Excel API

Microsoft has announced that its Excel API, which was formerly a beta release, is now generally available. The tool allows enterprise application development teams to access data stored in Excel

Mesosphere Partners with Big Data Vendors

Mesosphere, the company behind the open source Apache Mesos-based DC/OS distributed operating system, has announced that it has new partnerships with big data vendors Confluent, DataStax and Lightbend. It will

Docker 1.12 Offers Full Mac and Windows Versions

Docker has released an update of its open source containerization software. The most significant new features in Docker 1.12 are the first full desktop versions for Mac and Windows; previously

Report: Private Equity Firms Considering HPE Buyout

Citing unnamed “people familiar with the matter,” Reuters is reporting that private equity firms are considering buying some of HPE’s enterprise software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica, for $6 billion

Go, Big Data Languages Becoming More Popular, Says IEEE

The technology industry group IEEE has released its annual ranking of programming languages. “The 2016 Top Programming Languages” report analyzes twelve different metrics, and unlike many other programming language popularity

Apache Spark 2.0 Debuts

The Apache Software Foundation has released the 2.0 version of Spark 2.0, the open source, real-time big data processing engine. According to the Spark website, “The major updates are API