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Open Source Release of ‘Hibari,’ A Database for Big Data
Jul 27th
SAN MATEO, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ — Gemini Mobile Technologies (″Gemini″) announced at ″Wireless Japan 2010″ in Tokyo that it will release Hibari (meaning ″Cloud Bird″ in Japanese) as open source. Hibari is a database optimized for the highly reliable, highly available storage of massive data, so-called ″Big Data.″ Hibari can be used in Cloud Computing Applications such as web mail, Social Networking Services (SNS), and other services requiring storage of tera-bytes and peta-bytes of new daily data.
Hibari, developed by Gemini, is based on distributed non-relational database technologies of key value store and chain replication. These technologies bring benefits of low cost and high reliability by enabling data storage on tens or hundreds of PC servers, instead of costly special-purpose storage appliances such as SANs. Development started in 2005, and has been deployed and commercially proven in a number of large telecom operators, storing everything from SNS digital goods to Cloud Mail for millions of users.
″Big Data″ applications are growing rapidly, fueled by tremendous growth in digital content, social media, automatically-generated data such as logs, histories, and telemetric statistics (electricity utilization, vehicle location information, etc.). By releasing Hibari to open sourcing, Gemini expects its commercially-proven, non-relational database technology to be used in a variety of fields, including enterprise private cloud computing, digital entertainment, e-commerce, financials, and telemetries.
Hibari is developed in Erlang, and is released under the Apache license. Hibari provides highly-versatile APIs including Amazon S3, JSON-RPC-RFC4627, Universal Binary Protocol, and soon-to-be-released Thrift, Avro and Google’s Protocol Buffers; Hibari supports Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby, and Erlang. Gemini plans to provide Hadoop Map-Reduce integration as well as a commercial license which includes updates and support.
- Hibari download site – http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibari/
- About Gemini Mobile Technologies – http://www.geminimobile.com/
CONTACT: Giorgio Propersi of Gemini Mobile Technologies, +1-805-312-6379, gpropersi@geminimobile.com
SOURCE Gemini Mobile Technologies
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EMC to Acquire Greenplum – Data warehousing technology provider
Jul 7th
Disruptive Data Warehousing Technology Enables New Era of “Big Data” Clouds and Self-Service Analytics
HOPKINTON, Mass., July 6 /PRNewswire/ — EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.
Today, new forms of data — massive amounts of it — are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks, the Web, a flood of consumer content, surveillance systems, sensors and the like. In a recent report, IDC predicted that over the next 10 years the amount of digital data created annually will grow 44 fold. Companies are increasingly turning to new architectures and new tools to help make sense of this “big data” phenomenon.
Regarded by industry experts as a visionary leader, Greenplum utilizes a “shared-nothing” massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that has been designed from the ground up for analytical processing using virtualized x86 infrastructure. Greenplum is capable of delivering 10 to 100 times the performance of traditional database software at a dramatically lower cost. Data-driven businesses around the world, including NASDAQ OMX, NYSE Euronext, Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile and Fox Interactive Media have adopted Greenplum for sophisticated, high-performance data analytics.
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said, “The data warehousing world is about to change. Greenplum’s massively-parallel, scale-out architecture, along with its self-service consumption model, has enabled it to separate itself from the incumbent players and emerge as the leader in this industry shift toward ‘big data’ analytics. Greenplum’s market-leading technology combined with EMC’s virtualized Private Cloud infrastructure provides customers, today, with a best-of-breed solution for tomorrow’s ‘big-data’ challenges.”
Bill Cook, Greenplum CEO, said, “EMC and Greenplum bring extraordinary potential to customers at the intersection of ‘big data’ and sophisticated analytics. As technology and business partners, EMC and Greenplum witness daily the enthusiasm with which customers embrace how together we impact their businesses in very tangible, positive and meaningful ways. The technology speaks for itself. What energizes us most now is EMC’s ability to open new doors of opportunity and accelerate delivery of our joint vision for the future.”
Scott McNealy, executive advisor to Greenplum, said, “EMC’s strength in the enterprise, and Greenplum’s push to fully transform data warehousing and business analytics, makes for a perfect fit. Together they are brilliantly bringing together the power of cloud computing, virtualization, and social collaboration to help customers as they venture into the next phase of computing and business analytics.” More >
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OpSource Recognized as a Top Ten Cloud Computing “Leader to Watch”
Jun 29th
Company Chosen for Market Leadership, Customer Traction and Ability to Innovate
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – June 29, 2010) – OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that Datamation.com recently recognized the company as one of the top ten cloud computing “leaders to watch“ in a list which also included IBM, AT&T, and Cisco. Leaders were chosen based on objective criteria, including customer traction, experience and market cap or financing, as well as subjective criteria, such as ability to innovate, ease of use, and how well cloud offerings integrate with the company’s broader portfolio.
With hundreds of customers such as Adobe, SAP, Taleo and Xactly, OpSource was recognized as a leader because of its unique position as the “go-to ‘cloud operations’ provider.” Offering more than traditional hosting services, OpSource provides Application Operations, which includes database management, compliance management, change management, performance management and application optimization. In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud, a cloud service for companies requiring pay-as-you-go flexibility and 100% availability as well as high security and control.
OpSource was also chosen for its vision and solution-oriented strategy. The company predicts a near future where the cloud marketplace is built around an ecosystem of developers, integrators, telcos and VARs. OpSource believes in this ecosystem because enterprise customers buy solutions, and they increasingly see cloud hosting and managed hosting services as a component to an overall solution. To this end, OpSource has already inked a partnership with NTT America this May, under which NTT America will deliver enterprise cloud services built on OpSource Cloud.
“We believe that more than half of Infrastructure-as-a-Service will eventually be sold through channels and solution providers,” said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. “We are gratified that a leading publication like Datamation.com has confidence in our vision for this future, and we thank them for this recognition.”
About OpSource
OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource’s expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. Our industry-leading Application Operations service goes beyond traditional hosting by providing application management, change management, performance management and application optimization. OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Founded in 2002, OpSource is SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and European Safe Harbor certified and has operations in California, Virginia, UK, Ireland, and India. For more information, please visit www.opsource.net.
OpSource, OpSource Cloud, OpSource On-Demand, and the OpSource logo are trademarks of OpSource, Inc. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are protected by their respective owners.
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How virtualization helps companies transform their approach to IT
Jun 22nd
Virtualization made its way into the mainstream data center with a strong cost-reduction value proposition centered around a straightforward tactic: server consolidation.
Now, on the back of the success these projects achieved, virtualization is gaining a more strategic role in the IT landscape. As virtualization initiatives delivered tangible bottom line benefits–in some instances up to 60% reduction in capital costs–companies looked to virtualize more. With expanded use, virtualization becomes more than an operational tactic; it becomes the foundation for a new approach to IT. An approach where IT services are freed from the complexity of the hardware infrastructure that delivers them. Through virtualization, companies are finally achieving “IT-as-a-service,” or cloud computing.
“Cloud” is a term that means many things to many people, but when viewed as an approach to computing that leverages the pooling of on-demand compute power delivered as a service, cloud computing really describes a new model for IT. And, an evolution to this computing approach is underway in thousands of data centers around the world. Our customers are on a journey that for many began with a single virtualized server.
I’ve already alluded to the first step of the journey, the “IT Production” phase. The IT organization is virtualizing what it owns–servers used for file and print or test and development–and the benefits are cost reduction through server consolidation, space and power savings.
Customers enter into the second phase of the journey–the “Business Production” phase–when they virtualize their first business application, such as a database, ERP system or enterprise e-mail. At this phase, the value proposition shifts and companies are virtualizing to achieve better quality of service (performance, reliability) or business continuity. Often, this shift is sudden and dramatic. At this point, the organization takes cost savings from consolidation for granted, and the focus has moved to faster provisioning, better capacity management, reliability and management automation for business applications. At this phase in the journey, IT is no longer the only stakeholder interested in virtualization. Because business-critical applications are involved, leadership from across lines of business are taking seats at the virtualization table.
While progressing through the first two stages of the journey, companies have used virtualization to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and increase service levels. The final stage of the journey is about business agility. We call this phase “IT-as-a-Service.” Typically, customers in this phase have more than 50% of their data center virtualized. Virtualization has become the norm–it’s just part of what IT does. And the result is that these companies have automated more processes, can deploy new services faster than ever before and are getting extremely high levels of utilization.
In this phase, resources can be allocated on demand where and when needed. IT is nimble. This model for the data center–made possible by virtualization and automation–could be described as a Private Cloud.
Throughout the journey, IT has delivered value, improved its credibility and evolved its relationship with the business. When our customers ask us, “How do I get to this new model of computing?” we tell them to keep doing what they are doing. Virtualize more, progress along the journey. Virtualization is the way forward.
In future articles I will dive deeper into some of the concepts that I’ve introduced here, covering best-practices that our successful customers have used to progress through the virtualization journey.
Full Source Credit to: Forbes.com
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Who’s Next on the Acquisition Block? Bloggers Chime in
Jun 15th
Oracle buys Sun. HP buys 3Com. SAP buys Sybase. Just when it seemed like consolidation among the big data-center vendors had played itself out, we’re off again at full tilt. Multiple trends are driving the latest acquisitions wave: The economy is recovering, customers are demanding systems that are easier to implement and vendors seem intent on collapsing the divide between servers, network and storage.
So who’s next on the block? We asked some of IDG’s expert bloggers to pull out their crystal balls and make some bold merger predictions for the near future. Some are obvious, some controversial, but any one of them would give corporate CIOs a lot to think about if they woke up tomorrow morning to find out it had happened.
IBM buys Amazon Web Services
By Alan Shimel, author of Network World’s Open Source Fact and Fiction blog
The company that coined the phrase “on-demand computing” has been rather timid about the cloud. While Microsoft has Azure and Google its App Engine, IBM is not going to sit out the biggest computing migration in a generation. Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, is a Renaissance man. From his humble bookstore beginnings, he built Amazon.com into the biggest retailer on the Internet. He is bankrolling a project to put tourists in space. And unbeknown to many outside of the technology world, he has made AWS the dominant provider of public cloud services.
While cloud computing may turn out to be the biggest story in enterprise IT, Bezos’ investors want Amazon to maximize their returns. The Amazon Empire is too far-flung. At the end of the day, space is far above the clouds and much sexier to Bezos. He will sell the cloud service to pursue the stars. The money AWS generates from a sale could fund a lot of rocket ships.
Who has the money, the desire and deserves to be hosting a good chunk of the public cloud? Big Blue, that’s who. Who better to combine private and public clouds for true on-demand enterprise computing? IBM will make the hybrid cloud a reality. It has the software and services to offer both infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. IBM more than anyone has the resources, experience and business model to take AWS and fulfill the cloud destiny.
Who knows. When IBM reaches the cloud, it may find Jeff Bezos hovering above it in space.
(Shimel, CEO of The CISO Group, can be reached at alan@thecisogroup.com and on the Web at http://www.securityexe.com)
HP buys Teradata
By Robert Mullins, author of Network World’s Microsoft Tech blog
When considering a tie-up between Teradata and HP, it’s not just about strategy; it’s also personal. Before being made HP’s CEO in 2005, Mark Hurd spent 25 years at NCR, including a stint as president and chief operating officer of its Teradata division. Teradata was spun off from NCR in 2007, and Hurd later hired Ben Barnes, a former Teradata general manager, to run HP’s Business Intelligence division.
Hurd’s plan was to take on Teradata with HP’s Neoview, based on the NonStop SQL database that HP acquired when it bought Compaq. But Neoview hasn’t turned out so well. “HP Neoview is reeling,” Monash Research said in a March report. “(Almost) nobody sees Neoview competitively.”
Yet high-end data warehouses are a profitable and growing business, one that HP yearns to have a strong hand in. Two years ago it partnered with Oracle on its Exadata machine, a hardware-software combo that paired HP servers with Oracle’s database. Fast-forward to today and Oracle has dropped HP for Sun Microsystems, its latest big acquisition. Buying Teradata would allow HP to jump back in the game with a high-speed data warehousing stack and potentially deal Oracle some vengeance.
HP has built its software business on acquisitions: Peregrine Systems for $425 million in 2005, Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in 2006, Opsware for $1.6 billion in 2007. With Teradata it would get some screamingly fast appliance hardware in the bargain.
It wouldn’t be cheap: Teradata’s market capitalization is more than $5 billion. But it would be a smart growth move for HP.
(Mullins, a freelance technology journalist in Silicon Valley, can be reached at mullico@gmail.com.)
Read the rest at: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198846/whos_next_on_the_acquisition_block_bloggers_chime_in.html
Full Credit to: PCWORLD
