Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, January 29, 2025

MapR Announces New Enterprise-Grade Apache Spark Distribution

June 6 -- MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, announced today at Spark Summit a new enterprise-grade Apache Spark distribution.  This new distribution includes the complete Spark stack engineered ...Full Article

Lenovo Drives Deeper Into Datacenter Market by Unveiling New Offerings

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 6 -- Lenovo (SEHK: 0992) today intensified its focus on the $87 billion data center technology market by unveiling an expanded arsenal of IT solutions, ...Full Article

Cloudability Raises $24M to Help Manage Enterprise Cloud Spending

PORTLAND, Ore., June 6 -- Cloudability, a leading cloud cost management provider, today announced they've closed a $24M Series B round. The new funding, led by the Foundry Group Select Fund, brings ...Full Article

Teradata Introduces Aster Connector for Spark

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 6 — Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics and marketing applications company, today introduced the Teradata Aster Connector for Spark, an industry-first integration of Apache Spark analytics with Teradata Aster Analytics. The connector enables pre-built analytics ...Full Article

Qumulo Raises $32.5M in Series C Funding Round

SEATTLE, Wash., June 3 -- Qumulo, the leader in data-aware scale-out NAS, announced today that it has closed $32.5 million in a Series C funding round. The oversubscribed funding round ...Full Article

CloudBees and Mesosphere Partner

DENVER, Colo., June 3 -- CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and continuous delivery (CD) leader, today announced that it has collaborated with Mesosphere to support continuous delivery by running Jenkins on ...Full Article

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Names New Executive Director

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 3 -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a Linux Foundation project and organization advancing the development of cloud native technologies, today announced Dan Kohn as its new executive ...Full Article

Worldwide Enterprise Storage Market Sees Continued Decline in First Quarter, According to IDC

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 3 -- Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue declined 7.0% year over year to $8.2 billion during the first quarter of 2016 (1Q16), according to the ...Full Article

Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation Launches the HSA 1.1 Specification

June 2 -- The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today released the HSA 1.1 specification, significantly enhancing the ability to integrate open and proprietary IP blocks in heterogeneous designs. The new ...Full Article

Arista Networks Introduces New Universal Leaf Network Platform

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 2 -- Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) today announced the Arista 7280R Series, a new fixed switching and routing platform for next generation data centers. Complementing the ...Full Article
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