Hortonworks aligned with Hewlett Packard Labs, the central research organization of Hewlett Packard Enterprise to form a new collaboration that boosts Apache Spark, one of the most active Apache big data projects. The collaboration will center around an entirely new class of analytic workloads that benefit from large pools of shared memory. Hortonworks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise plan to contribute the new technologies to the Apache Spark community. Early results […]

Marvell has announced its 32-bit and 64-bit Armada system-on-chip (SoC) ecosystem of software solutions and partners for a variety of applications. Marvell’s expanded, rich ecosystem brings strong support and commitment to the open source community with software offerings including mainline Linux kernel and mainline U-Boot on publicly available community hardware platforms. Marvell’s expansion of its 32-bit and 64-bit Armada SoC software ecosystem with OpenDataPlane (ODP), OpenFastPath (OFP), UEFI, openSUSE, SUSE […]

Four Simple Tips to Help Prepare for the Next “Oops” Moment by Kemal Balioglu Recently I came across a sobering story about how one simple command line resulted in the deletion of the majority of production files for Pixar’s Toy Story 2 from a studio server. While the studio had been creating backups of production files daily, they did not realize, until they went to restore the lost files, that […]