• Natural Cooling: Vote For Your Favorite Caption

  It's Friday, which means it's time for a bit of fun to roll into the weekend. We need your help to select the best reader-submitted caption for the "Natural Cooling" cartoon featuring Kip & Gary. Check out the entries and vote!

• Big Data Software Specialist Talend Raises $40 Million

  Talend receives $40 million to accelerate its big data efforts, and Cloudera certifies WANdisco's non-stop Hadoop technology.

• Oracle Launches Fifth Generation Exadata Database Machine

  Oracle (ORCL) launched its fifth generation database machine, with dramatic increases in performance and capacity, new software capabilities to optimize OLTP, and a new focus on Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Data Warehousing.

• Legacy Systems: Tried and True Systems Whose Time Has Come

  In an era of technology evolution and sometimes turmoil, there are unexpected islands of calm populated by extremely stable legacy hardware systems. Ironically, some of these oldest citizens of the data center also happen to be the most stable and secure, writes Duane Harris of Nemonix. The extended…

• Convergence 3.0: Simplivity Packs The Stack Into A Single Box

  As the size of data has grown, the need for reduced footprint, along with increased performance has multiplied also. Enter "convergence," the effort to compress data and decrease the physical size of the infrastructure. One example of the movers and shakers in the convergence market is…

• Why Big Data hype is good for everyone

  Why Big Data hype is good for everyone : No, this is not the advantage Bruce Kratz mentions in his post, but it sets the right expectations for the real benefit: But once we all get back to planet earth, the majority of us go back to ourrather average-sized data projects, perhaps feeling like we…

• QTS Tenant Powers Up, Adds 5 Megawatts in Atlanta Data Hub

  A major customer of QTS Realty Trust is adding five megawatts of power at QTS' Metro Atlanta facility, the company said this week. QTS isn't saying who it is, but all signs point to Twitter.

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• HAWK: Performance monitoring tool for Hive

  JunHo Cho's slides introducing HAWK, a performance monitoring tool for Hive: Hive performance monitoring tool ✚ I couldn't find a link for HAWK. The slides are pointing to NexR . Original title and link: HAWK: Performance monitoring tool for Hive ( NoSQL database ©myNoSQL)

• Analyze Large Data Sets on Elastic MapReduce Clusters With Impala

  Impala is an open source query tool for Hadoop. You can use familiar SQL-like statements to activate Impala's distributed in-memory query engine, allowing you to quickly and efficiently process large amounts of data. In many cases, Impala is significantly faster...