MapR customers achieve more than 5x return on investment

MapR Technologies has released at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2014 results of independent, third-party research that indicated a majority of MapR customers experienced payback in less than 12 months and greater than 5X returns on their investment. More than 50 companies that responded to the survey also had experience using other Hadoop distributions and even those reported similar, large returns, with 65% reporting greater than 5X returns and 40% reporting greater than 10X returns using...

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Delays to digital transformation projects create concern for CIOs and CFOs

Canopy’s research finds 75% of CFOs fear their businesses will fall behind if they don’t have the optimum cloud applications and infrastructure in place.

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Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2 delivers more enterprise-ready Hadoop

Hortonworks has announced the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.2, an enterprise-ready data platform that enables organizations to adopt a modern data architecture with Hadoop YARN as the architectural center, supported by key capabilities required of an enterprise data platform – spanning governance, security and operations.

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Rackspace ‘delivers’ for Hadoop with Spark

Rackspace® has announced the release of OnMetal™ Cloud Big Data Platform so customers can now deploy bare metal instances of Apache™ Hadoop® with Spark™ in just three clicks. The new solution provides an efficient and elastic platform that delivers break-through speed for Hadoop and Spark™, allowing data scientists to gather insights in minutes rather than hours or days.

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Keysource to build Aberdeen data centre

Keysource has commenced work on a new state-of-the-art data centre for leading cloud computing experts brightsolid. The centre represents a £5 million investment and will be located at the Aberdeen Journals’ Lang Stracht site.

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Data centres 'not fit for the future'

Zenium Technology Partners has released findings from a new research report which highlights that a staggering 94% of senior IT professionals have admitted that their in-house data center is technologically out of date.

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Australian fish farm undergoes IT upgrade by investing in edge infrastructure

Australian fism farming company Tassal looked at harnessing IT to make its business of growing salmon more sustainable and cost-effective. It invested in an integrated IT solution powered by Vertiv and Dell EMC for its business in Tasmania.

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