Organizations as diverse as Northrop Grumman (NOC), Harvard University, Zynga, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) have filled job websites with requests for talented puppeteers and master chefs. A quick dig into the job listings reveals that these positions have nothing to do with office entertainment or gourmet meals. Instead, the companies want people who have mastered Puppet or Chef, competing softwar ...

Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded while the number of professionals experienced on Hadoop have not! The current job markets around Hadoop technologies is a very different one, one that is opposite to everything else other job markets all over the US are experiencing today. Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded, in all parts of the US, in companies big and small – while the number of prof ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

New to the Open Source Conference this year is OSCON Data, for developers pioneering the evolving architectures and tools to manage data. See how Hadoop is used to optimize scalability and reliability at Yahoo. Find out how Facebook utilizes HBase to manage real-time messaging. Why Netflix moved from relational DBs to NoSQL cloud systems for personalized movie choosing. The in-depth sessions at OSCON Data, ...

Big data is getting bigger, and Hadoop is becoming the tool that will allow companies to make full use of their growing amounts of data, says Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capita. Fenton is a partner at the venture capital firm which owns the majority stake of HortonWorks, a startup that separated from Yahoo’s Hadoop dev team, and is offering services around the open-source big data analytics platform. In an in ...

WAN-optimization startup Infineta has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round for its product that speeds traffic flows between data centers and optimizes bandwidth utilization. The latest investment comes from Rembrandt Venture Partners, Alloy Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners, and the company has now raised $30 million in two rounds. Unlike many WAN-optimization products that speed traffic ...

At la 2006, today, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively announced that they will be partnering to create schema.org, a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and gain insight into how to improve their sites’ search results. The site adds more than 100 new forms of website markup for content ranging from movies to places in an effort to standardize, and thus improve, how ...

Last fall, Twitter announced a partnership with Gnip, making the latter company the only commercial provider of the Twitter activity stream. And although the "firehose" metaphor has been beaten to death, says Gnip CEO Jud Valeski, it still holds true. Valeski spoke today at Gluecon about the challenges of handling the firehose - what it means to process high volume, real-time data streams and to be able to ...

In the IT industry, technology and the usage evolves faster than in perhaps any other industry. As a rule of thumb, systems can grow 10 times under their current architecture or paradigm, then they must be re-architected. This 10X effect causes old technologies to become obsolete and new ones to emerge. It also underlies the massive shift to cloud computing. The last major computing infrastructure paradigm ...

Millions of tweets run through Twitter. It's the poster child for big data on the Web. To get data out of Twitter and use it to track sentiment requires tools with considerable processing and computational capabilities. BigSheets is a tool created by IBM that takes terabytes or even petabytes of Web data and turns it into information that provides business intelligence. The tool can be used for structured o ...