MapR Technologies and VMware team up

MapR Technologies, Inc. and VMware have announced that MapR’s Distribution for Apache Hadoop is now certified for VMware vSphere®. Through the VMware Ready™ program, the two companies conducted a detailed validation process, which now enables joint customers to easily deploy and run the MapR Distribution for Hadoop on VMware vSphere and receive commercial support.

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Optimisation hampered by lack of centralised monitoring and managment

Many data centres could be failing to optimise performance by failing to centralise monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of critical systems according to a recent survey from design, build and management specialist Keysource. It found that whilst almost three quarters of decision makers and influencers are now familiar with Data Centre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) there is still a long way to go before the adoption of this integrated approach to management and monitoring...

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Adapt’s footprint expands northwards

Purity of vision, infrastructure and service cited as key to the deal.

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NorCom selects MapR as underlying technology for Big Data ready enterprise collaboration platform

NorCom, an innovative and highly respected German system developer, has selected the MapR Big Data platform as the core data and storage technology for its new Eagle document-based collaboration system.

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New Statesman produces a series of special reports about data centres

In collaboration with Data Centre Alliance the award winning current affairs and politics weekly magazine, the New Statesman will be publishing a series of special reports looking at data centres and cloud computing investigating the key issues that are affecting this growing industry.

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