Author » George Leopold
Palantir Looks to Build on Snowflake’s IPO Success
On the heels of Snowflake’s wildly successful initial public offering, investors are eagerly awaiting Palantir Technologies’ direct listing this week in what is expected to be the latest in a series of lucrative trad Read more…
Apache Promotes IoT Database Project
An open source Internet of Things database effort has been elevated as a “top-level project” by the Apache Software Foundation. Launched as a research project at Tsinghua University and accepted as an incubator ef Read more…
Qeexo Adds Support for Arm’s Edge Processor
Qeexo, the “tinyML” specialist, said its AutoML platform now supports the smallest Cortex processors from Arm Ltd., making it the first vendor to automate machine learning on the Arm processor used for edge computing Read more…
Cassandra Adoption Correlates with Experience
The Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is predominantly used by companies that have taken off the training wheels and forged ahead with aggressive digital initiatives, a usage survey finds. The 2020 adoption report relea Read more…
For ‘Open Banking,’ Data is a Person
The pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital financial services such as “open banking.” That has resulted in increased fraud, up an estimated 11 percent since the novel coronavirus hit. What’s more, industr Read more…
Aerospike Gives Legacy Infrastructure a Real-Time Boost
A database connector upgrade released this week by Aerospike Inc. links open source frameworks like Apache Spark data streaming to existing enterprise data infrastructure. Among the goals is providing backward compati Read more…
Virtualization Startup Varada Streamlines Data Ops
Varada, a data virtualization startup targeting big data query acceleration, announced a $12 million funding round this week as it ramps up its “zero data-ops” platform designed to prioritize analytics workloads via Read more…
Oracle Touts an Exadata Backlog
In reporting modest revenue growth during its fiscal 2021 first quarter, Oracle Corp. emphasized that continuing growth hinges on the steady shift of its flagship database software and hardware technologies to the cloud. Read more…
Graphing West Coast Days of Darkness
These are dark days for residents of the U.S. Pacific Coast—literally. According to the New York Times, the Bear Fire near Oroville, Calif., “jumped an astonishing 230,000 acres overnight” between September 8 an Read more…
Cassandra Gets an Indexing Upgrade
A new data storage framework for indexing on Apache Cassandra released this week by DataStax is aimed at easing adoption of cloud-native NoSQL databases by eliminating developers’ tradeoffs between scale, stability and Read more…
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