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• Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 May, 2012 02:15

  Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner ecosystem around the service, the company announced Monday.

• 10 questions for Box CFO Dylan Smith

  By Nancy Weil | 20 December, 2011 04:31

  -- Name: Dylan Smith, co-founder and CFO

• Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 November, 2011 07:09

  Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

• Informatica, customer in legal fray over license audit

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 July, 2011 05:27

  Data-integration vendor Informatica and a customer are embroiled in a legal dispute over US$6.3 million in license fees that Informatica says it is owed due to noncompliance.

• Options for cloud, SaaS data integration grow

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 June, 2011 02:45

  The options for cloud and SaaS (software as a service) data integration grew larger on Wednesday with the announcement of Talend Cloud, a new product from open-source vendor Talend.

• Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 June, 2011 14:06

  Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or "big data" processing, the company announced Monday.

• Microsoft to expand AppFabric toolset

  By Joab Jackson | 19 May, 2011 06:40

  Microsoft next month will release a set of new components to its Azure AppFabric suite of middleware cloud services that should make it easier for administrators to create and manage cloud applications.

• Red Hat to preview Java caching technology

  By Joab Jackson | 04 May, 2011 08:33

  Red Hat will launch a preview of a new commercial enterprise Java data caching technology, based on its experimental Infinispan data grid software, the company announced Tuesday.

• NetSuite, Informatica team up on two-tier ERP

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 March, 2011 19:09

  NetSuite and Informatica announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to exploit the concept of "two-tier ERP" (enterprise resource planning) deployments.

• Apache to steward NASA built middleware

  By Joab Jackson | 07 January, 2011 05:54

  The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed by the NASA U.S. government space agency.

• Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce

  By Joab Jackson | 21 December, 2010 06:09

  Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.

• Informatica debuts pay-as-you-go data integration service

  By Joab Jackson | 08 December, 2010 08:59

  Hoping to pique the interest of the cloud-curious enterprise, data-integration software provider Informatica has unveiled a low-cost, cloud-based data integration service, called Informatica Cloud Express.

• Talend acquires SOA vendor Sopera

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 November, 2010 06:59

  Open-source data integration vendor Talend is expanding its footprint into SOA (service-oriented architecture), announcing Wednesday that it has purchased Sopera, developer of an open-source ESB (enterprise service bus) and other technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

• Twitter solves its data formatting challenge

  By Joab Jackson | 14 October, 2010 22:06

  Eschewing popular choices such as XML, CSV and JSON, Twitter has opted to format the back-end storage of its user and systems data with a relatively unknown format pioneered by Google, called Protocol Buffers.

• Hadoop pitched for business intelligence

  By Joab Jackson | 12 October, 2010 22:08

  While it began life as a tool for indexing Web pages, the open source Hadoop framework is being marketed as a tool that could house and analyze vast amounts of data with the kind of proportions that would quickly overwhelm traditional database systems and data warehouses.