Supercomputer manufacturer Cray will integrate and deliver two next-generation supercomputers and associated storage for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National Laboratory, through a subcontract obtained from Intel, it announced earlier last week. Part of Cray’s new line of supercomputers (currently codenamed “Shasta”), the

The opening of 15th annual Intel Capital Global Summit yesterday saw Intel Corporation’s global investment wing, Intel Capital, reveal its plan to invest in 16 companies with various innovative technology portfolios, including Big Data and Cloud Infrastructure outfits. Pledging an amount approximating $62 million, Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital

GoodData, a Cloud based Business Intelligence startup, has landed $25.7 million in Series E funding on Thursday led by Intel Capital and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Tenaya Capital, TOTVS, Next World Capital, Windcrest, and Pharus Capital. The total funding received so far has now gone up to $101.2

Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced a $50 million investment in Hortonworks, a big data company that provides enterprise version of Apache Hadoop for big data analytics applications. The announcement comes only a few months after BlackRock and Passport Capital co-led an investment round of $100 million. The partnership will see HP and Hortonworks

Cloudera, Dell and Intel are collaborating on the creation of dedicated Dell In-Memory Appliances for the Cloudera Enterprise. The appliances will help integrate the hardware and software, with a view to boosting real-time analytics performance. The In-Memory Appliances will be the first in a group of collaborative developments, which will

Intel is spearheading projects to improve food and water security in California. California is a particularly apt place to start; agriculture in the region is a $46.3 billion industry, and they’re world leaders in avocado and almond production. But they’re also facing a devastating drought; nearly one third of their

Malaysia is entering into the competition to be the next hub for big data, up against neighbouring countries like Singapore and South Korea.   The Philippines are training 200,000 students, while India is teaching a massive 500,000 students to use R, a big data statistical platform.  Where Singapore has invested S$180

Huawei, an ICT solutions provider, announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership memorandum with Intel, the leading computing technologies provider. It is said that Huawei and Intel will strengthen their existing collaboration in technical collaboration, product R&D, and “joint marketing initiatives, to drive the advancement of big data