Ahead of its AzureCon event, Microsoft has announced several improvements to Azure’s big data capabilities. Most notably, the company launched Azure Data Lake Store, an expansion of Azure Data Lake.
Databricks has released its 2015 Spark Survey, which reveals increasing interest in the open source real-time processing technology. According to the report, Apache Spark has experience 283 percent growth among
In a conference call to announce quarterly earnings, BlackBerry confirmed rumors that it plans to release a new smartphone called the Priv that will feature a slide-out keyboard and will
Google has launched a beta trial of a new service designed to help organizations better manage Spark and Hadoop clusters running in its cloud computing environment. Called Cloud Dataproc, the
The developers of the KVM hypervisor have launched a new NoSQL database called ScyllaDB that boasts some impressive performance numbers. ScyllaDB is fully compatible with the open source Apache Cassandra
Backblaze, a cloud backup vendor, is getting into the infrastructure as a service cloud storage business, and it is setting its prices extremely low in a direct challenge to Amazon,
Earlier this month, JetBrains announced that it would begin offering its development tools on a subscription basis instead of under a perpetual license. Pushback from customers was immediate and vociferous,
Web companies that rely on Amazon’s cloud computing service experienced downtime over the weekend when a problem with the AWS DynamoDB database resulted in outages. Affected services included Tinder, IMDb
Although it was once an avowed enemy of open source software in general and Linux in particular, Microsoft has developed its own version of Linux. Called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS),