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MariaDB Emerging as Default MySQL Option

After more than two years of development, the latest version of the Debian Project, a "universal" open-source operating system, was released over the past weekend. Organizers of the project also said the MariaDB server w Read more…

IBM Broadens Collaboration on Anaconda

IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive Systems platform in collaboration with Read more…

Big Data’s Relentless Pace Exposes Old Tensions and New Risks in the Enterprise

Over the past two weeks, we've explored some of the difficulties that enterprises have experienced in trying to adopt the Hadoop stack of big data technologies. One area that demands further attention is how the rapid pa Read more…

Why Anaconda’s Data Science Tent Is So Big–And Getting Bigger

With more than 13 million downloads to date, Anaconda is blossoming into a real phenomenon in a crowded data science field. What made the collection of mostly Python-based tools so popular to data hackers—a dedication Read more…

Solving Storage Just the Beginning for Minio CEO Periasamy

Yesterday marked the first day of general availability for the free and open source object storage system from Mino. But as Minio co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy explains, delivering the deceptively simple, S3-compatible Read more…

IBM: We’re the Red Hat of Deep Learning

IBM today took the wraps off a new release of PowerAI, the prepackaged bundle of deep learning frameworks that debuted last fall. With the addition of Google's TensorFlow framework, the company says its AI business model Read more…

Object Storage Ecosystem Grows While Standardizing and Consolidating, IDC Says

The object storage system landscape has changed dramatically in the past year thanks to consolidation of the players involved and technological standardization, IDC says in its latest report. Object-based storage syst Read more…

Microsoft SQL Server Supports Linux

Microsoft widened its embrace of the Linux kernel with a preview release this week of its next SQL Server, further extending its business analytics platform to run on open-source distributions. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT Read more…

Veritas Disses Dell/EMC As It Preps Big Info Management Push

"What's worse than a lifetime of hardware with EMC?" Veritas' ad in the Wall Street Journal read today. "An eternity in Dell." With that one little dig, Veritas showed it's ready to play once again with the big boys in t Read more…

Crunchy Data Container Suite Packages PostgresSQL

PostgreSQL databases can now be run and managed on Linux containers in cloud-native architectures with the release to the open source community of a database container suite. Open source PostgresSQL specialist Crunchy Read more…