• TIBCO Connects Big Data To Cloudera, Hortonworks, Pivotal

  TIBCO broadens big data connectivity options to Cloudera, Hortonworks and Pivotal, MapR is selected by Rocket Internet for a powerful behavior analysis system, and BMW selects IBM big data and analytics for boosting customer satisfaction.

• Second Installment of Microservices

  We continue our article on microservices by looking at how the services are organized around business function rather than technological layers. We also take a swish at the question of how large a microservice should be

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• At OFC, Applied Micro Launches Optical Networking Devices

  At the OFC 2014 Optical Networking conference in San Francisco this week Applied Micro launched a 240Gbps Optical Transport Network smart PHY family of devices, Broadcom introduced 802.3bj compliant physical layer devices, and Acacia Communications rolled out its Coherent 100G CFP module.

• Adaptive Storage: Rethinking How Hadoop Clusters Are Optimized

  anuary's Open Compute Summit led to the creation of a new concept known as Adaptive Storage, in which compute and storage resources would be loosely coupled over a network and scale independently to optimize big data platforms.

• Nutanix Granted Patent for Its Software-Defined Storage Architecture

  Nutanix is granted a patent for its storage architecture for virtualized data centers, Nimble Storage advances its Infosight analytics with new forensic capabilities, and Avere Systems launches the FXT 4800 edge filer for enterprise storage.

• What's The Key to Providing Mainframe Access for Web and Mobile?

  Even with the ubiquitous use of mainframes, "easy access" and "mainframe" are not terms we typically think of as compatible in accessing information. However, using today's advanced modernization solutions and technologies on the back end, it has become faster and simpler than ever to…

• Highlights From DataCenterDynamics Converged NYC

  "Modernizing Data Centers" was the theme for the DataCenterDynamics Converged conference Tuesday in New York. Here's a look at some of the highlights from the event.

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