The UK-sited data center, which should help settle the compliance worries of many of Salesforce’s European customers, will be completed in 2014. The firm is also running a €5 million Innovation Challenge for EU startups. Read more »
MapR on Wednesday released its commercial version of HBase called M7, the first such product on the market, that the company claims is bigger, faster and better than the open source version. Read more »
Analytics startup Precog is on a mission to make analytics on unstructured data as simple as possible with a new line of targeted appliances. Read more »
The growing pains of big data were apparent at the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday in San Francisco. Here is a selection of visualization tools that came up at the meeting. Read more »
Prescription-management service Express Scripts uses lots of data and sophisticated models to detect drug fraud and predict with high accuracy when people will stop taking medications on time. Read more »
Belkin on Tuesday launched another set of products aimed at the internet of things. This time it released an electricity and water monitoring system that uses sensors and algorithms acquired from Zensi. Read more »
Everyone’s trying to add geographic data to mobile apps. Heroku says its embrace of PostGIS 2.0 will help devs do that faster and easier. Read more »
Machine learning startup Skytree has raised $18 million for its software that makes short work of pattern recognition across massive datasets. Read more »
Hedonometer.org draws on tweets and other sources of textual sentiment to gauge population-level happiness. Read more »
10gen, the company behind the popular MongoDB NoSQL database, has come out with a way for users to back up their data, so developers can focus on building applications. Read more »
Cloudera’s Impala engine for interactive SQL queries on Hadoop data is now generally available, and CEO Mike Olson gives his lay of the competitive landscape. Read more »
Cloud service and hosting provider adds distributed Riak NoSQL database to its mix of services. Read more »
In a provocative live webinar, Hortonworks Founder & CTO Eric Baldeschwieler (aka “E14”) and Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst apply real-world Silicon Valley customer cases on big data applications to show you when to use Hadoop, and when to use an MPP relational data warehouse. Read more »
IBM has a new box for the internet of things, but it’s the MQTT protocol inside that box that’s worth a long look. The protocol could become the messaging layer for the internet of things. Read more »
In a post on Facebook’s engineering blog, engineers discuss the ways in which natural-language processing helps interpret what users plug in to suggest the best possible queries. Read more »
Artificial intelligence expert and Google Director of Research was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last week. He’s well known for a 2009 paper titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data.” Read more »
Accurate timing has grown more important in distributed systems, not just for mobile networks, but also for tracking data between data centers. Our love of digital junk is pushing storage to the edge. Read more »
The advent of big data is affecting Ford Motor Co. in some significant ways, from how it analyzes its supply chain to the features it puts into its cars. Read more »
The UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has announced an industry pilot of the long-range broadband and M2M technology later this year, in order to make sure everything works properly ahead of a likely national deployment next year. Read more »
The Wikimedia Foundation’s first major new project in 7 years is now feeding the biggest project in that stable, Wikipedia itself. But anyone can take structured data from Wikidata, due to its open license. Read more »
A new study finds that Facebook likes and interest data could be used to map obesity prevalence. Read more »
Analytic database vendor ParAccel has been acquired by a relatively quiet database company called Actian. ParAccel targets big data with its scale-out architecture, and it counts Amazon as both an investor and user. Read more »
The platform-as-a-service outfit has taken its first non-U.S. region out of private beta. However, although it runs out of Ireland, some personal data may still be routed through the U.S. Read more »
In a provocative live webinar, Hortonworks Founder & CTO Eric Baldeschwieler (aka “E14”) and Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst apply real-world Silicon Valley customer cases on big data applications to show you when to use Hadoop, and when to use an MPP relational data warehouse. Read more »
The country’s economics and technology minister has reportedly urged Telekom to watch its step, after the telco announced caps for fixed-line users. Thing is, usage of Telekom’s own entertainment services won’t count towards those caps. Read more »
Will Pivotal’s corporate overlords let Paul Maritz do as he pledges — offer a cloud-agnostic operating layer? I’m sure business customers hope so. Read more »
Treato, a startup based in Israel, uses big data analytics to unearth patient insights about drugs and medical conditions from thousands of online health communities. Read more »
MySQL and MariaDB services company SkySQL has brought Monty Widenius and other MariaDB players on board. The result, says CEO Patrik Sallner, will be “a new form of database platform that ties together other databases.” Read more »
Ubuntu Server is all about virtualization and OpenStack these days, and the new version reflects that. It’s not a long-term support release, but rather a good opportunity to test out new integrations. Read more »
Execs from Brown Brothers Harriman,Goodyear, the Mayo Clinic and Whirlpool — organizations that have more than 500 years of experience between them — talk about how they fuel innovation. Read more »
Combine cheap sensors, smartphones and supercomputers and you have a water quality monitoring project that could go viral. MoboSens, a project from a university research lab is worth a look. Read more »
Facebook confirmed a data center in Altoona, Iowa, the same day Google said it would also expand its data center operations in the state. As Facebook pushes transparency, it’s also pushing the notoriously secretive Google. Read more »
The service, which is being pitched as “Mint.com meets IFTTT”, is targeted at startups that lack a CFO but that want to stay on top of the accounts they have with myriad services. Read more »
A startup called SRCH2 launched on Tuesday with the promise of delivering instant search faster and more accurately than than any other enterprise search product. Read more »
A year after launching, data-analysis-for-the-masses startup Datahero is finally opening its doors to the public. All in all, it delivers on its promise with a service that’s both intelligent and intuitive. Read more »
To help companies analyze more data quickly while keeping it all in memory, MemSQL is releasing a distributed version of its in-memory database. Read more »
Hadoop experts Qubole have just closed a Series A funding round for their service, which lets users run Hive data warehouse jobs in Amazon’s cloud. Read more »
A startup called Infer has taken on $10 million in venture funding to help more companies get a better idea of which leads to focus on in their sales and marketing lead lists. Read more »
When it comes to forming a bond with customers, one expert suggests using big data to help them form a bond with each other. Read more »
While Nest is widely known as a consumer-focused smart thermostat maker, the startup has quietly been developing services it can offer in conjunction with utilities, which can curb customers’ energy use while also lowering their energy bills. Read more »
