
Hortonworks Acquires Onyara, Turning IoT Data Into Insights
Enterprise Hadoop provider Hortonworks announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara, the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, a top-level open source project. The acquisition aims to provide customers automated and secure data flow technology. As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks is introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by

RF Code Launches CenterScape – Workplace IoT Software for the Data Center
RF Code today launched CenterScape, a flexible framework of data center management software tools built on the company’s powerful Workplace IoT Platform. CenterScape brings together years of collected best practices and streamlined methodologies with real-time environmental monitoring and asset management solutions developed specifically for data centers and distributed IT environments.

VoltDB Secures $9.8 Million to Expand Streaming Analytics & IoT Capability
VoltDB today announced that it has raised a $9.8 million round of funding to extend its SQL in-memory database to power the next wave of real-time, fast data-driven applications. The round was led by strategic investors with participation from existing investors Kepha Partners and Sigma Prime Ventures. Innovations in today’s enterprises

Dataconomy Teams Up With IP EXPO Europe for London Big Data & Analytics Event
Dataconomy is proud to partner with Data Analytics Europe to bring a night of data science discussion, educational insights and unique networking opportunities to London on October 7-8. Data Analytics Europe is one of 6 main events occurring at IP EXPO, Europe’s largest and most intensive IT event with over

NASA’s Big Data Climate Change Model
When both NASA and the Pope are speaking out about climate change, you know something is up. Yesterday the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) unveiled a public data set showing how rainfall, temperature and CO2 levels will change over the next 85 years. The high-resolution data, which is as granular as

SQL-on-Hadoop Provider JethroData Secures $8.1 Million in Series B Funding
Israeli SQL-on-Hadoop solution-provider JethroData, announced today that it has closed an $8.1 million Series B financing round led by Square Peg Capital, and including existing investor Pitango Venture Capital. This latest funding round will be used to increase investment in sales, marketing and development of JethroData’s technology. JethroData received $4.3 million in

Cyber Security Startup Niara Unveils Security Intelligence Solution Powered By Big Data Analytics
Sunnyvale, Calif. – June 2, 2015 – Cyber security startup Niara emerged from stealth today to unveil its Security Intelligence solution, the first of its kind to combine advanced security analytics and forensics to help security teams quickly surface sophisticated cyber threats within their organization. Built on a big data

Twitter Pulls Plug on Data Feed Sharing; Third Party Resellers Lose Access to Firehose
Twitter has pulled the plug on its data feed ecosystem by revoking access of its syndicated data feed of all tweets generated throughout the microblogging site, collectively called the ‘Firehose,’ to all partnered third parties. The move comes as a followup to its acquisition of the social media API aggregation

iRobot & Astronomers in a Tiff Over Robotic Lawn Mowers. No, Really.
iRobot is a US based advanced tech outfit that develops proprietary technology incorporating advanced concepts in “navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence to build robots,” that serve three tiers : Home, Security and Remote presence. Now, taking the Home segment further, the company is believed to be working on an

Snapchat Joins Deep Learning Bandwagon with Focused Research Team in the Pipeline
Word is that Snapchat, the Los Angeles based photo messaging application, is preparing a foray into a very hot branch of artificial intellligence – deep learning. Citing a knowledgeable source, VentureBeat reveals that the popular app, with an interest in deep learning has been developing a research team “to run