One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different techniques required by cloud providers and on-premises software vendors for… Read More
After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing some world-class systems for keeping the service alive. It announced… Read More
Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which Amazon said quickly processes very large amounts of data — useful when analyzing scientific data or processing… Read More
Microsoft Azure is getting new capabilities to handle big data workloads. The company announced a host of new features in a blog post today that are all targeted at organizations… Read More
Drawn to Scale, a two-year-old Seattle startup developing a new database called Spire, has raised a round of funding from RTP Ventures, IA Ventures, and SK Ventures. Terms of the deal were not disclosed… Read More
In a surprise show of support for a popular open-source technology, Microsoft says it will offer Hadoop-based distributions for Windows Server and its Windows Azure cloud computing platform — aiming… Read More