Big Data Big Five

This week’s top five from the big data ecosystem delivers funding announcements for machine learning company, Opera Solutions and cloud database company, Clustrix; Cloudera released their first ever software developer kit, and announced a partnership with machine data company Splunk, and big blue gets big green to do big data.

Wipro invests $30 Million in Opera Solutions

News broke this week that Indian outsourcing company, Wipro, has taken a minority position in Opera Solutions, LLC, at the tune of $30 million dollars.

Opera Solutions offers an array of products and services aimed at turning raw data, such as open source social media streams, and turning them into predictive analytics. The company, headquartered in New Jersey, houses 700 employees in North America, Europe and Asia, and boasts of having approximately 230 scientists working on their machine learning algorithms.

Wipro executives say that the two companies will partner to use Wipro’s global delivery model to extend Opera’s machine learning offering into new markets.

Opera previously closed an $84 million dollar funding round in September of 2011, and at the time was valued by the Wall Street Journal at $500 million.

NEXT — Talend Ups Hadoop Support with 5.3 ->Talend Ups Hadoop Support with 5.3  

Data integration company, Talend, has announced that they have released version 5.3 of their data integration platform, which offers virtualized access to heterogeneous data stores. The company says that the new release is aimed at cutting down some of the complexities of running Hadoop.

Included in the new tools is an interface that they claim generates native Hadoop code without the need for specialist programming skills. The release also includes a graphical mapper that they say provides greater insight into a company’s data flow by taking source data and displaying it using a visual mapper.

Additionally, the new release adds support for NoSQL databases with new connectors for Couchbase, CouchDB, and Neo4j, to go along with their native support for Apache Hadoop (and much of the alphabet soup that goes along with it), as well as Cassandra, HBase, and MongoDB.

Talend says the 5.3 release will drop on June 18^th.

NEXT — Cloudera and Splunk Form Alliance ->Cloudera and Splunk Form Alliance

In addition to releasing their first ever developer kit, Cloudera this week inked a strategic alliance with machine data connector company, Splunk.  According to both companies, the alliance aims at ensuring bi-directional integration between Splunk Enterprise and Cloudera Enterprise, ensuring data reliability between Splunk and Hadoop.

The partnership is expected to help companies like SNAP Interactive, who use both Splunk and Cloudera for data management and analytics. A social application developer, SNAP operates a sizeable social data application on the Internet (AYI) with more than 20 million Facebook connected profiles and over a billion interest data points for users. The application is said to create a huge amount of machine data, which is Splunk’s specialization area.

Through the partnership, Splunk’s Hadoop Connect will integrate with Cloudera’s CDH4.2, enabling seamless data transfer between applications, enabling engineers and business users to perform ad hoc analysis and visualize trends.

NEXT — Clustrix Lands Series C ->Clustrix Lands Series C Funding Round

NewSQL company, Clustrix, which builds the Clustrix scale-out SQL database purpose built for the cloud, announced this week that they have completed a Series C round of funding of $16.5 million through their current investors, Sequoia Capital, US Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwin.

The company, founded in 2006 by Paul Mikesell and Sergei Tsarev, recently released its Clustrix 5.0 on Amazon Web Services, following a series of database-as-a-service announcements with Rackspace, GoGrid, Equinix, and BlueBoxGroup.

The company claims that its distributed SQL, ACID database can scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. Customers include Rakuten, CSC, Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, MedExpert and others.

NEXT — IBM Hauls $49-million Euro in CESCE Group Bid ->IBM Hauls $49-million Euro in CESCE Group Bid

IBM announced this week that they have entered an agreement with Madrid-based credit insurance company, CESCE, worth $49 million euros.

The engagement aims at aiding CESCE’s business model development and spurring international expansion through a jointly formed innovation lab that aims to significantly up-level CESCE’s big data and analytics capabilities. Though the arrangement, IBM will be tasked with managing the business model transformation of CESCE, while also architecting a new IT infrastructure and datacenter.

The expectations are the CESCE will have a unified, international corporate platform encompassing all of CESCE’s data, enabling the company to use the same names and segments for the entire business.

The new agreement extends work that IBM is currently doing with the credit insurance firm to implement IBM’s business intelligence software.

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