Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
August 24, 2015
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: August 24, 2015. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak software, has announced that, in collaboration with Cisco, it has developed a framework enabling the Riak KV NoSQL database to run on Apache Mesos, bringing operational efficiency and high-elasticity to big data services. "The goal is to try and simplify and make it easy for clients to get business solutions as quickly as possible instead of worrying about the distributed data tier," said Adam Wray, CEO of Basho.
Hortonworks, a provider of enterprise Hadoop, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara, Inc., the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, an open source project. The acquisition will make it easy for customers to automate and secure data flows fueling the fueling the "Internet of Anything (IoAT)" and to collect, conduct and curate real-time business insights and actions derived from data in motion. As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks is introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi, which was made available through the NSA Technology Transfer Program in the fall of 2014. The Hortonworks acquisition of Onyara is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.
IBM Supports Journey Through Space with Apache Spark
ScaleArc is acquiring ScaleBase in an effort to enhance its database load balancing solutions with sharding technology. By incorporating ScaleBase's technology and Intellectual Property ScaleArc's offerings will broaden around application availability and zero downtime for enterprise application.