Pivotal, A NEW PLATFORM FOR A NEW ERA
Just as consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have done, enterprise companies increasingly need to store and analyze massive amounts of data cost-effectively, ingest huge numbers of events in real time, reason over the data, and react rapidly. To meet this need, Pivotal will host a live streaming event on April 24th with a special announcement and an unveiling of its plans to build a platform that makes the consumer grade enterprise a reality.
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Pivotal: All Systems Go
Pivotal, the new company uniting EMC Greenplum’s decade of big data R & D, agile development trailblazers Pivotal Labs, and VMWare’s cloud services and app framework acumen, is ready to launch. In a letter to employees sent Monday, April 1st, CEO Paul Maritz announced Pivotal as “a new and exciting company with great promise,” and outlined the Pivotal vision.
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Paul Maritz Calls for a “Consumer-Grade Enterprise” Platform
Over the past decade, consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have invested heavily in user data — storing it, analyzing it, and using the insights revealed to rapidly iterate on products. These companies recognized early that user data is a treasure trove, and devoted significant in-house resources to reap its value.
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Cloud Foundry Open for Business and Commits
Cloud Foundry, the Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution offered by EMC’s newly-minted Pivotal Initiative, opened itself this week to clients and the open source community. The Pivotal Initiative will be selling Cloud Foundry as a cloud software service, while opening the project’s code for collaboration and commits through Github.
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Harper Reed on the Power of Data, at Hadoop: the Foundation for Change
Big Data’s impact is wide-ranging, from business to media, the sciences to politics. These massive shifts are largely powered by Hadoop, a flexible, scalable, and inexpensive platform that boasts considerable enterprise investment and a rich developer ecosystem. Hadoop: The Foundation for Change, on Monday, February 25th in San Francisco, will reveal Greenplum’s new technology to extend the platform’s impact and reach, and look to the data-driven future with a keynote speech by Harper Reed, Former CTO for the Obama 2012 Campaign.
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Towards a Unified In-Situ Analytics System
With ever-growing data sets produced from user-generated online content and activity, and the amount of machine-generated data from server logging and network traffic monitoring, enterprise customers want the best of both worlds. They want to perform complicated interactive queries and sophisticated reporting easily, using existing BI tool sets.
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Pivotal Labs Empowers Data-Driven Enterprises to Become Agile and Collaborative
Data is Big, the predictive enterprise is the way of the future, and data scientists are in high demand: you can’t glance at technology news sites in 2012 without being aware of these developments. But there’s another challenge facing organizations as they deal with the influx of data, one which receives less attention: a lack of the custom applications, skills, and development methodologies necessary to tap into its value.
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