Startup Makes Probability-Based Chips for Big Data Apps
Lyric Semiconductor, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup that was spun out of MIT in 2006, today announced a revolutionary new approach to processing data called probability processing. It wants to make chips that are fit for a world drowning in information and dealing with data deluge.
The company was started by Dr. Ben Vigoda, a chip industry veteran, and MIT Scientist and chip industry veteran David Reynolds. It’s backed by Analog Devices CEO and lead partner of Stata Ventures, Ray Stata, with more than $20 million in funding from DARPA. It’s coming out of stealth today.
Aster Data Offers Free MapReduce IDE To Boost Use of Big Data
Smooth-Stone Gets $48M for ARM Servers
Is SaaS/Cloud Adoption Too Easy?
A recent customer survey by TrackVia, a cloud-based application development platform, found it’s not cost savings that attract non-technical users to their solution. Fifty percent cited functionality and 30 percent cited ease-of-use, making these the two most popular reasons for moving development to the cloud.
Another EngineYard Co-Founder Leaves The Company
Oracle’s Java Lawsuit: Free Markets, Not Free Software
Eucalyptus, rPath Back a New Private Cloud Effort
NewScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems are working on a new self service, private cloud initiative which is going to be announced on August 24. This new effort is going to an integrated offering that is targeting hybrid and private clouds. This will be yet another offering that would perhaps compete with a whole series of companies and efforts, including the open source cloud stack, OpenStack. More details will likely emerge around the time of VMworld 2010.
Should Marc Andreessen Become HP’s Interim CEO?
Continuity Disaster Recovery Software Gets Private Cloud Advisor
Putting the Cloud to Use for Video Encoding
In a world with millions of different mobile devices, televisions, screen sizes and video formats, something has to give. But instead of giving in, device proliferation combined with content producers’ desire to deliver clean video is giving rise to a new market for hosted video encoding, sometimes called transcoding. The goal is simple: provide the right format to the right screen at the right time without requiring content producers to invest in infrastructure. Done right, content producers should be able to dial up a video encoding service in the cloud.