• Cray Joins OpenStack, Wins $54M Supercomputer Contract

  Supercomputer vendor plans to provide common APIs, infrastructure and core frameworks for open source cloud system in the future Read More

• Google Capital Leads $110M Round for Enterprise Hadoop Firm MapR

  Despite Google abandoning MapReduce for its own new hyperscale analytics system, Google capital still believes in the technology and its prospects in the enterprise. Read More

• IBM SoftLayer London Data Center Close to Launch

  Adds to existing European footprint in London and Amsterdam, targets data-location-sensitive clients Read More

• Data Doesn't Need to Be Free, But it Does Need to Have Sex

  How do we pay for the services we want to create and use? That is the question. Systems like Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and all the other services you love are not cheap to build at scale. Grow now and figure out your business model later as the VC funding disappears, like hope, is not a…

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• Amazon Kinesis Expansion

  Amazon Kinesis is a real-time service for processing streaming data at massive scale. You can process Kinesis data in a variety of ways, including the Kinesis Client Library , Apache Storm , or Elastic Map Reduce . Mobile gaming companies like Supercell ( AWS Case Study ) and analytics…