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• Twitter to open source streaming data analyzer

  Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analyzing live large-scale data streams, called Storm.

• Dell sells preconfigured Hadoop system

  Recognizing Apache Hadoop's growing presence in the field of data analysis, Dell will start selling servers preloaded with the open-source data processing platform, the company announced Thursday.

• IBM unifies marketing, online analytics software

  In an effort to simplify work for data-welding marketing managers, IBM has combined two of its e-commerce offerings into a single online package.

• Researchers propose 'skinning' bridges for fault detection

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Potsdam in Germany have pioneered a new way to continually monitor the physical condition of bridges, aircraft, buildings and other large structures. They have produced a material, or skin, that varies its electrical charge whenever it experiences a change in pressure.

• Cloudera outfits Hadoop with management tools

  Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management tools.

• MapReduce could be the server's newest friend

  In the future, when an administrator does a server build, he or she may be adding a MapReduce library to the usual stack of server, database and middleware software.

• IBM to invest $100 million for big-data analysis research

  Sensing a greater need in big-data analysis tools, IBM will invest $US100 million to research advanced large-scale analytics, the company announced Friday.

• Teradata, Information Builders roll out BI appliance

  Teradata and Information Builders have developed a data warehousing package that bundles the latter's WebFOCUS BI (business intelligence) software with a Teradata analytic appliance, the companies announced Friday.

• Yahoo Hadoop spin-off could propel software's growth

  Yahoo's reported plan to spin off its Hadoop engineering unit into a separate company, should it happen, could spur more competition in the already-growing field of providing support for this data processing framework, observers said.

• Jive Software buys data-mining vendor for social analytics

  Jive Software is buying data-mining startup Proximal Labs in a move that will help it derive deeper insights into social-networking data, the companies announced Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed.

• Cloudera expands Hadoop ecosystem

  With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework.

• Hadoop Hive gets production polish

  Edging ever closer to enterprise software maturity, the Hive data warehouse software has been updated with new capabilities considered essential for production use, such as indexing, concurrency and advances in authentication management.

• Savvier job scheduling with Platform, Terracotta updates

  Enterprise servers may get a lot busier, at least if their administrators adopt one of two freshly upgraded job schedulers, both of which promise greater control in the scheduling of workloads across many servers.

• Citigroup spinoff draws recommendations from transactions

  A New York startup company spun off from Citigroup is about to launch a service that can offer consumers recommendations for restaurants and other retail outlets, based on an analysis of billions of credit card transactions.

• NPR deploys Splunk for Web analytics

  In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads.