SAS survey signals big data disconnect; only 12 per cent on board

Despite industry hype, most organisations have yet to develop and implement a big data strategy. Business analytics leader SAS and SourceMedia surveyed 339 data management professionals about their organisations' use of data management technology. The results show few organisations taking advantage of product, customer and other data sources.

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MapR teams with Canonical to deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

MapR Technologies, Inc. and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, have announced a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

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Racktivity appoints Scott Roots as UK Sales Manager

Racktivity, pioneer in the development of next-generation power and energy management solutions, has appointed Scott Roots as its new UK Sales Manager.

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Dataguise enhances DG for Hadoop

Dataguise has announced DG for Hadoop™ v4.3. Now the first and only solution of its kind to provide both masking and selective encryption for sensitive data in major Hadoop distributions, DG for Hadoop allows organizations to determine the most appropriate remediation technique based on privacy requirements. The new version also delivers expanded capabilities, including contextual-based search to identify sensitive data in unstructured files, simplified management with automatic...

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Six Degress Group acquires central London data centre operator

Six Degrees Group (6DG has acquired BIS, an independent data centre operator that provides corporate colocation and private cloud services from Central London. The transaction adds £16m of revenues and significant scale to 6DG’s hosting portfolio. It also develops the Group’s presence in Europe’s largest data centre market, positioning 6DG as one of a small number of colocation providers with both Central London and outside M25 datacentres.

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Government of Catalonia Agency awards HP $40 million contract

HP to modernize Spanish community’s applications environment to support economic growth, lower costs.

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Equinix Insider - White Ops President & COO, Eddie Schwartz

Eddie has over 25 years experience in information security, including recent work as the CISO of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Co-Founder/CSO of NetWitness.

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