Mellanox Technologies announced Wednesday availability of its new Innova IPsec Ethernet adapter. The Innova IPsec network adapters offload and accelerate security protocols and advanced network functions, enabling the ubiquitous use of encryption across the data center with low CPU utilization and without compromising application performance. The Innova adapters deliver seamless encryption for every server port by combining the network adapter function together with the crypto protocol offload in a single […]

Microsoft announced Thursday new capabilities in its managed Hadoop and Spark cloud services Azure HDInsight to make Hadoop enterprise-ready in the cloud and easy for users with security capabilities of any cloud Hadoop solution, big data query speeds that approach data warehousing performance, and new notebook experiences for data scientists all on the latest Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5 and Spark 2.0 platform. Spark 2.0 is a major release that overhauls […]

Samsung Electronics and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced Wednesday a partnership that will provide carriers with integrated network functions virtualization (NFV) infrastructure and virtual network functions (VNF) solutions. This kind of collaboration is critical to both carriers and customers increasingly looking to implement pre-tested and integrated multi-vendor solutions based on an open architecture. The partnership merges Samsung’s carrier network and HPE’s IT telecommunications capabilities. Together, the solutions will help carriers […]

Percona, a vendor of enterprise-class MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, announced Thursday availability of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, the latest release of the company’s open source high-availability solution for MySQL. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 is designed to deliver a consistent, optimal experience through increased performance, faster recovery from node failure and greater user control. Downloaded more than 780,000 times since its launch in April 2012, Percona XtraDB Cluster ensures […]

Splice Machine, provider of the open-source SQL RDBMS, announced Tuesday at Strata + Hadoop World that it now supports native PL/SQL on Splice Machine. PL/SQL support reduces the time and cost for companies to offload their big data workloads from Oracle databases. It is available immediately through the Splice Machine Enterprise Edition. Companies are dealing with an exponential growth of data, and a constant demand for new applications that deliver […]

Open source vendor Red Hat announced on Monday the availability of the Ansible Tower App for Splunk, an application that integrates Ansible Tower by Red Hat with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. The application brings the power and variety of Splunk analytics queries to Ansible Tower automation, and enables Ansible Tower and Splunk customers to view rich Ansible automation data in Splunk solutions where it can be correlated with other […]