• Get in the Ring with Cassandra and EC2 Part 2

  This is the second in a series of posts about making good choices for hosting Cassandra on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.

• Google Slashes Cloud Pricing, Adds Slew of Features

  Google introduced on-demand pricing for it's cloud, which slashes current prices and ensures that cloud pricing is more consistent with price drops in hardware. The company also introduced and demoed a slew of new features, including a seamless Live Migration DNS as a Service, and support for…

• Dell Adds to Software Portfolio With StatSoft Acquisition

  Dell announced the acquisition of StatSoft, a provider of advanced analytics solutions that deliver a wide range of data mining, predictive analytics and data visualization capabilities.

• Hortonworks Nets $100 Million to Accelerate Enterprise Hadoop

  Enterprise Hadoop provider Hortonworks announced an oversubscribed $100 million funding round. The investment will help the company continue to grow its ecosystem and global operations.