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As we announced yesterday, our DataStax Enterprise 2.0 server is now ready for download!

Here at DataStax we’re (naturally!) jazzed about this release because it provides a number of very exciting new features including:

• Enterprise search with Apache Solr! This is definitely the headlining new feature in

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Today we announced DataStax Enterprise 2.0, the next step in our evolution of helping people solve their big data problems.

In DataStax Enterprise 2.0, we have added:

• Enterprise search via the extremely popular open-source project, Solr.
• Elastic workload provisioning that allows your cluster to change compute power between Cassandra

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I’ve had the conversation many times. Many, many times. At conferences, user group meetings, etc., plenty of people will come up to me who are sold on using Cassandra and/or Hadoop, but they want to easily move and perhaps transform data from their legacy systems (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server,…

We’re please to let you know that DataStax Enterprise service pack 1.0.2 is now available for download. Please see the release notes for the changes included in the service pack and the online documentation for upgrade instructions.

This is my final post in a series (here, here, and here) breaking down the following paragraph from our recent press release that touches on some of the key reasons why people choose Cassandra.  It reads:
Customers this year chose…

I was surprised at how many news stories at the end of 2011 contained predictions that big data would be ‘big’ in 2012, and thought that the chorus of voices talking about big data would lessen a bit in the early part of this year.

How wrong I…

Outside of politics and religion, nothing can get the blood rolling in tech folk’s bodies more than a healthy debate on the merits of operating systems, such as Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac. Personally, I’ve never used Mac in a production environment, but I have plenty of experience with…

Well, you asked and we’ve responded. You said you wanted OpsCenter on Mac on one of the polls we recently took, and now you’ve got your wish.  You can now download and run DataStax OpsCenter on your Mac.

If you want a detailed run-through of how easy it is…

We’ve updated the DataStax Community Server to Apache Cassandra 1.0.7 and it’s now available for download on our community downloads page. All changes can be found in the CHANGES.txt file in the main installation directory. Enjoy!