We have an excellent round of speakers & topics for Big Data Cloud’s Monthly June 3rd Meetup: Session 1: Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using AWS Topics Covered: The tradeoffs of storage on S3, EBS, and HDFS Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands Latencies, Prices, and stretchy clusters From: 6:15 pm to 6:45 pm Speaker: Paul Baclace Bio: Paul is a veteran Software Engineer of 9+ s ...

HP has just announced that it has acquired data management company Vertica. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011, were not disclosed. Vertica, which has raised $30.5 million in funding, develops data management solutions for storing and querying databases. Its products include The Vertica Analytic Database, which helps in analyzing data; Vertica for the Cloud, a cloud- ...

The biggest growth in cloud computing will be in hybrid clouds (from 13% now to 43% in three years) according to a recent study by SandHill Group in which they surveyed more than 500 IT executives. Another survey by Evans Data finds an even higher adoption rate among IT developers, suggesting that the hybrid cloud model is set to dominate the coming IT landscape. Given the interest and practicality of hybri ...

EMC Corporation and Cloudera have announced the formation of an alliance so that Hadoop-based services that Cloudera offers will be integrated with EMC's Greenplum technology. This move will help businesses better manage and analyze the challenge of ever-growing big data - including log files, sensor data, emails, images, receipts, research data and so on. The integration between Cloudera's Distribution for ...

IBM is snapping up yet another business analytics player. After purchasing OpenPages last week, Big Blue is now laying down $1.7 billion in an all-cash deal to acquire Netezza. Netezza provides high-performance analytics in a data warehousing appliance that claims to handle complex analytic queries 10 to 100 times faster than traditional systems. Netezza appliances puts analytics into the hands of business ...

Aster Data, a market leader in big data management and advanced analytics, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C round of financing led by both new and existing investors. The company will use the new funding to accelerate growth, scale operations, and expand its global market share in the $20 billion database market -- a market that is experiencing rapid growth as a result of both the e ...

Aster Data, a San Carlos, Calif.-based start-up developing software for big data application,s says it’s replacing its founder-CEO — Mayank Bawa — with Quentin Gallivan, formerly of PivotLink, a business intelligence software company. Gallivan was also the CEO of Postini, a mail management company that was acquired by Google in 2007. Bawa will switch roles to become the company’s chief customer officer. The ...