Cassandra summit 2012 fast approaching
Here at DataStax, we are excited to honor the Apache Cassandra community with a first-class event next week (8/8) in Santa Clara. It looks like we’re going to have between 700-800 attendees, which is a huge increase from last year’s event. We’ve got a great list…
The Five Minute Interview – Easou
This article is one in a series of quick-hit interviews with companies using Apache Cassandra and/or DataStax Enterprise for key parts of their business. For this interview, we caught up with David Cao, a senior developer at Easou. DataStax: David, thanks for making time for us today. What can…
Vote in new poll
Please take a few seconds and vote in our new poll (lower right) that asks which cloud provider you currently use or plan to use for your database applications (even if your answer is ‘none’). Thanks!
DataStax Enterprise Edition 2.1.1 Now Available
Version 2.1.1 of DataStax Enterprise, which contains a number of bug fixes, is now available for download.
The Five Minute Interview – Next Big Sound
This article is one in a series of quick-hit interviews with companies using Apache Cassandra and/or DataStax Enterprise for key parts of their business. For this interview, we talked with Next Big Sound and Eric Czech who is their chief architect. DataStax: Eric, thanks for taking the time to…
Announcing the DataStax MVP Program
The Cassandra Summit 2012 is fast approaching and it will be another record year for attendance. The community has grown greatly over the last year and so, for the first time we will be announcing our DataStax MVP Program for Apache Cassandra. This program is designed to recognize key…
The Five Minute Interview – V2i
This article is one in a series of quick-hit interviews with companies using Apache Cassandra and/or DataStax Enterprise for key parts of their business. For this interview, we chatted with V2i’s Philippe Modard who is an engineer and CTO of the company’s applied sciences health monitoring solution. DataStax: Philippe,…
Leap second bug found to be Linux issue, not Cassandra.
Several articles have been published recently [1], [2], [3] that have incorrectly indicated that Cassandra had a “leap second” bug that caused some problems for many high-profile sites running Cassandra. As a point of fact, it was a Linux bug that caused the issue. The challenge was that…
The Five Minute Interview – SimpleReach
This article is one in a series of quick-hit interviews with companies using Apache Cassandra and/or DataStax Enterprise for key parts of their business. For this interview, we chatted with Eric Lubow who is CTO of SimpleReach, which is headquartered in New York City. DataStax: Eric, tell us what…
