• New Resource-Level Permissions for AWS OpsWorks

  My colleague Chris Barclay reports on an important new feature for AWS OpsWorks! -- Jeff; I am pleased to announce that AWS OpsWorks now supports resource-level permissions. AWS OpsWorks is an application management service that lets you provision resources, deploy...

• Dropbox: Challenges in mirroring large MySQL systems to HBase

  A presentation by Todd Eisenberger about the archival system used by Dropbox based on MySQL and HBase: MySQL benefits: fast queries for known keys over a (relatively) small dataset high read throughput HBase benetits: high write throughput large suite of pre-existing tools for distributed…

• Hadoop on SAN? Never, ever do this to Hadoop

  Hadoop on SAN? Never, ever do this to Hadoop : Andrew C. Oliver in an article for InfoWorld: I've done this myself, figuring we'd kick off the project and show how wecould "optimize" to local disks later. Let me say this unequivocally: Youabsolutely should not use a SAN or NAS with Hadoop…

• Trifacta raises $12M Series B to take the pain out of structuring messy data

  Trifacta raises $12M Series B to take the pain out of structuring messy data : Announced today by PandoDaily: Today the company announced a $12 million Series B round of financing led byGreylock Partners , with participation from existing investor AccelPartners . Trifacta has now raised a total of…

• Pivotal and Capgemini Form Strategic Partnership

  At its Data Science Summit Pivotal announced a new strategic partnership with consulting, technology and outsourcing services company Capgemini.