MapR customers achieve more than 5x return on investment

MapR Technologies has released at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 results of independent, third-party research that indicated a majority of MapR customers experienced payback in less than 12 months and greater than 5X returns on their investment. More than 50 companies that responded to the...

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Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2 delivers more enterprise-ready Hadoop

Hortonworks has announced the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.2, an enterprise-ready data platform that enables organizations to adopt a modern data architecture with Hadoop YARN as the architectural center, supported by key capabilities required of an enterprise data platform –...

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Rackspace ‘delivers’ for Hadoop with Spark

Rackspace® has announced the release of OnMetal™ Cloud Big Data Platform so customers can now deploy bare metal instances of Apache™ Hadoop® with Spark™ in just three clicks. The new solution provides an efficient and elastic platform that delivers break-through speed for...

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Keysource to build Aberdeen data centre

Keysource has commenced work on a new state-of-the-art data centre for leading cloud computing...

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Data centres 'not fit for the future'

Zenium Technology Partners has released findings from a new research report which highlights that a...

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National Cable Communications Media builds Next Generation Data Centre

National Cable Communications (NCC) Media, one of America’s leading media companies...

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Moving Big Data from the IBM mainframe to Hadoop

Syncsort has announced another milestone contribution to the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, incorporating...

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MapR Technologies appoint Jacob Zätterström as sales director for Nordics

Former Microsoft and VMware executive to lead MapR's continued customer success and expansion...

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Virtual Hospital goes live

New tools enable resellers to learn about the options in three different healthcare scenarios and...

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Syncsort offers Ambari support

Syncsort says that its award winning Syncsort DMX-h technology is now supporting Apache Ambari, an...

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MapR announces initiative for integration between Apache Drill and Apache Spark

MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced an initiative to integrate Apache Drill, which provides...

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API-based monitoring for Software Defined Networks

GroundWork, Inc. has released GroundWork Net Hub. The new GroundWork Net Hub offers discovery and...

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HP and VMware ‘dramatically simplify and accelerate’ the delivery of software-defined infrastructure services

New hyper-converged infrastructure offering delivers turnkey, flexible approach for midmarket and...

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The Green Grid sets out challenges in the government IT regulation agenda

The Green Grid will convene at Living Tomorrow in Brussels on 28-29 October for the 2014 edition of...

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Videos

Alex Sharp, Chief Projects Officer, Data Centres at Nscale, outlines the scale of the AI data centre challenge – with average rack consuming 130 kilowatts of power, and as chips become more sophisticated, so...
Iju Raj, Executive Vice President R&D and Simon Bennett, Director, Research and Innovation, both at AVEVA, discuss the importance of real time data analytics and how AI can help unlock access to this key...
Kirsty Biddiscombe, AI, ML and Data Analytics lead for NetApp EMEA, discusses the challenges and opportunities of enterprise AI - with the focus very much on the current skills shortage.
News and views from the recent DCA-organised Data Centre Transformation (DCT) 24 event.

Expert Opinions

By Jason Beckett, Head of Technical Sales, Hitachi Vantara.
By Terry Storrar, Managing Director at Leaseweb UK.
With data centres now deemed as critical infrastructure, organisations must evolve beyond traditional security to combat sophisticated cyber threats. By Jon Mort, CTO, The Adaptavist Group,