Why we should care about — but not overreact to — cloud glitches
The week in cloud: Windows Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services have all seen their share of problems. But anyone who runs their own data center should see that coming.
Structure Show: East Coast vs. West Coast in big data and the Hadoopalypse!
On this week’s show, we talk with Atlas Venture partner Chris Lynch about big data disruption and recap the big cloud news of the week.
Sqrrl snags $5.2M to commercialize the NSA’s Accumulo database
New funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Ventures will help the NoSQL database vendor push its product globally.
Seeking startup cred: SAP pushes HANA as a platform for data startups
Two legacy powers — SAP and Kendall Square (in the guise of hack/reduce) pulled out the stops Friday to woo big data entrepreneurs. SAP wants them to use HANA. Hack/reduce just wants them to stick around.
The downside of Upstart: mentors come at a price
VC-backed Upstart aims to help smart college graduates fund the startups of their dreams in return for a slice of their future earnings. So what’s so wrong with that? Plenty, according to Daniel Abadi, chief scientist of Hadapt and associate professor at Yale.
Boston preps big kickoff for big data hub
Hack/reduce will launch its cool new work space near Cambridge’s Kendall Square on Thursday. The goal of the effort is to bring together the best big data people from private and public sectors and academia to train up the next generation of data scientists.
If you’re a big data hacker, hack/reduce wants you
If you’re a big data hacker in the greater Boston area, hack/reduce wants you to join its effort to make the area a big data hub, according to Abbey Fichtner.
HP moves big data ops to Cambridge
The greater Boston area may not be the hub of the big data universe that some recent research suggests, but it got a leg up this week with news that tech giant Hewlett-Packard is moving some of its big data operations to Cambridge.