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I’m trying really hard to write less about business intelligence and analytics software. We get it: Data is important to businesses, and the easier you can make it for people to analyze it, the more they’ll use your software to do it. What more is there to say? But every time I see Tableau Software’s earnings reports, I’m struck by the reality of how big a shift the business intelligence market is

Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the popular Mesos cluster-management software. More specifically, Myriad allows the YARN resource scheduler — the linchpin of Hadoop 2.0 that lets the platform run processing frameworks other than MapReduce — to

Pivotal, the cloud computing spinoff from EMC and VMware that launched in 2013, is preparing to blow up its big data business by open sourcing a whole lot of it. Rumors of changes began circulating in November, after CRN reported that Pivotal was in the process of laying off about 60 people, many of which worked on the big data products. The flames were stoked again on Friday by a report in Ventur

Google employs some of the world’s smartest researchers in deep learning and artificial intelligence, so it’s not a bad idea to listen to what they have to say about the space. One of those researchers, senior research scientist Greg Corrado, spoke at RE:WORK’s Deep Learning Summit on Thursday in San Francisco and gave some advice on when, why and how to use deep learning. His talk was pragmatic a

For cloud watchers,  the real news out of Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings call is that the company will finally break out Amazon Web Services numbers from the rest of its gigantic retail business starting in the first quarter. To date, the AWS numbers have been buried in the poetically named “North America Net Sales (Other)” category along with a mish mash of other items. Of course that hot littl

Twitter said on Tuesday that it open sourced a tool called AnomalyDetection that can discover when unexpected activity occurs that may negatively impact Twitter’s service, such as traffic spikes or spam bots. AnomalyDetection, which is an R programming package, helps [company]Twitter[/company] scan for the big traffic influxes that might take place during times of breaking news, major sports event

Data warehouse specialist Teradata is ramping up its Hadoop business again, announcing the company’s Hadoop cloud service as well as a new, tight partnership with Cloudera on Thursday. For a couple of years, analysts have been claiming — and Teradata has been disputing — that the open source Hadoop platform and its expanding set of capabilities could pose a risk to Teradata’s multibillion-dollar b

Microsoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers with the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on Microsoft and Docker’s recent partnership to ensure that Docker can run nicely on the Azure cloud and Windows Server. Previously, there wasn’t a standard way to get [company]Docker[/company] running on Windows,

Online auction site eBay has open sourced a database technology called Kylin that the company says enables fast queries over even petabytes of data stored in Hadoop. eBay isn’t a big data user on par with companies like Google and Facebook, but it does run technologies such as Hadoop at a fairly large scale and Kylin seems a good example of the type of innovation it’s doing on top of them. eBay de

Amazon said the Amazon Web Services reboots that customers were notified about on Wednesday will affect about 10 percent of total EC2 instances. As had been speculated, the cause is a Xen hypervisor issue that must be addressed soon, according to an AWS blog post. The updates have nothing to do with the “Bash Bug” or “shell shock” flaw that is handled in a separate security bulletin on the AWS sec

Earlier this year, when Twitter released its quarterly financial results, CEO Dick Costolo was asked whether the platform would ever implement a Facebook-style filtering algorithm, he hedged his answer by saying he wouldn’t “rule it out.” According to some recent comments from chief financial officer Anthony Noto, however, the company is doing a lot more than not ruling it out — it sounds like a d

Fed up with the limitations of current computer chips and their related intellectual property, a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is pushing an open source alternative. The RISC-V instruction set architecture was originally developed at the university to help teach computer architecture to students, but now its creators want to push it into the mainstream to help prop

The .io country code top-level domain is pretty popular right now, particularly among tech startups that want to take advantage of the snappy input/output reference and the relative availability of names — Fusion.io, Wise.io and Import.io are just a few examples. But who benefits from the sale of .io domains? Sadly, not the people who ultimately should. While .tv brings in millions of dollars each

The cloud computing news coming out of Google I/O might not set the larger world afire, but it might light a fire under market leader Amazon Web Services. Google used its annual developer conference to unveil a slew of new cloud services Wednesday, including one called Dataflow that makes it easy to write data-processing pipelines that incorporate both batch and stream-processing capabilities. Bas

Facebook announced in a blog post on Thursday that it has upgraded the Apache HBase database with a new open source system called HydraBase. Facebook is an avid HBase shop, using it to store data for various services, including the company’s internal monitoring system, search indexing, streaming data analysis and data scraping. What makes HydraBase better than HBase is that it is supposedly a more

In an unusual decision, an appeals court in Washington ruled on Friday that Oracle(s orcl) can copyright application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Java programming language. The ruling is a defeat for Google(s goog), which uses the APIs for its Android software, but also has implications for the technology industry as a whole, where APIs — which let computer programs speak to each other —

Data Elite, a combination venture capital firm, accelerator and co-working provider that launched in October, has announced its first class of startups, all focused in some way on solving problems related to data analysis. The firm boasts a number of experienced advisers from major tech companies and venture capital firms, and has a high bar for acceptance: at least one founder must have five year

Twitter’s service is nothing if not fast-moving, and on Tuesday night the company published a blog post detailing the database that helps it keep up. Called Manhattan, it’s a distributed, real-time database built to serve multiple teams and applications within the company. It’s also something of an indictment against existing open source database technologies, at least when it comes to handling th

Apache Mahout, a machine learning library for Hadoop since 2009, is joining the exodus away from MapReduce. The project’s community has decided to rework Mahout to support the increasingly popular Apache Spark in-memory data-processing framework, as well as the H2O engine for running machine learning and mathematical workloads at scale. While data processing in Hadoop has traditionally been done u

Hadoop software vendor Cloudera didn’t make a lot of waves when it bought a London-based startup called Myrrix last year, and it hasn’t made a lot of noise about the company’s machine learning technology since then. But the company’s technology and its founder, Sean Owen, could turn out to be very valuable assets. Owen, whose official title is director of data science, now spends him time working