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2013
Netflix, Openwave Messaging and Ooyala Migrate Critical Business Applications from Oracle to DataStax and Apache Cassandra
Scalability, Disaster Avoidance and Cost Savings Named Key Criteria for Industry-Leading Enterprises Moving from Relational Databases to Cassandra NoSQL Database Platform…
DataStax Responds to Exceptional Demand for Apache Cassandra in Europe – Announces Community Initiatives Throughout Region
DataStax, the company that powers the big data applications that transform business, today announced a series of initiatives to meet the unprecedented demand for Apache Cassandra in Europe…
DataStax Continues Rapid Global Expansion – Hires Senior Executive from SAP to Lead Worldwide Field Operations
John Schweitzer Joins DataStax to Scale Worldwide Sales and Services Organization that Currently Reaches 20 Companies in the Fortune 100…
DataStax Announces Big Data Days By the Bays – Hosts Cassandra Summit in San Francisco and Sponsors Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit In Half Moon Bay
1,000+ big data and cloud influencers and experts to attend Cassandra Summit, the premier global conference for the Apache Cassandra community, discussing use cases and development techniques…
DataStax Addresses Unprecedented Demand in the High-Growth EMEA Market by Opening London Office
DataStax continues strong growth with more than 250 customers and 20 of the Fortune 100, including companies such as Netflix, eBay, Thomson Reuters and Synchronoss…
DataStax Introduces World’s First NoSQL Big Data Platform With Comprehensive Enterprise-Grade Security Features
DataStax continues to penetrate the large and growing big data market – big data driven IT spending set to double to $55 billion by 2016, according to Gartner[1]...
DataStax Releases Independent Benchmark Results Showing That Apache Cassandra Outperforms NoSQL Competitors by a Wide Margin
Cassandra Dominates Its NoSQL Competitors In All Read and Write Throughput Tests While Also Consistently Delivering The Lowest Latency In Each Workload…
DataStax Announces “Next Great Data Developer Contest”
Finalists To Present Their Projects At Bay Area Cassandra Summit In June…
DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 3.0 Offers Most Comprehensive Security Feature Set Among All NoSQL Providers
DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 3.0 Offers Most Comprehensive Security Feature Set Among All NoSQL Providers – Enables Enterprises To Adopt NoSQL Databases While Safely Scaling Their Big Data Infrastructure DSE 3.0 delivers core security features to the Cassandra NoSQL community and advanced security features to modern enterprises…
DataStax Announces Community Edition 1.2
DataStax Announces Community Edition 1.2 — Latest Version of Apache Cassandra™ Includes Free Version of OpsCenter, the #1 Visual Management and Monitoring Solution for Cassandra…
2012
DataStax Announces All New Planet Cassandra, a Dedicated Community Site for Everything Apache Cassandra
Revamped Platform for C* Users Provides Knowledge, Education, Resources Under One Roof…
DataStax Appoints Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Andrew Feldman to Board of Directors
Feldman a Powerful Addition to Team as DataStax Disrupts Database Landscape…
DataStax Raises $25 Million in Third Round of Funding
Apache Cassandra™-Based Big Data Platform Poised to Drive Massive Growth in the Enterprise…
DataStax Sponsors Game Zone at Oracle OpenWorld, Offers 35 Years of Beer
Other Events Include Speaking Segments by Cassandra Chairman Jonathan Ellis and Pre-Party User Drink Up…
Speakers to Highlight Splunk as the Platform for Machine-Generated Big Data at .conf2012
Fortune 500 customers share their success, Big Data track features technologists and luminaries from across the Apache ecosystem…
DataStax Sees Surge in Reliance on Apache Cassandra as Enterprises Harness the Power of Big Data
Demand intensifies for Cassandra experts as organizations seek real-time big data solutions…
Actuate and DataStax Partner to Deliver Big Data Analytics Solutions for Apache Cassandra
Partnership Highlights Highly Visual, Interactive Query Results, a Wide Array of Output Formats and Sophisticated Analytics…
Jaspersoft Partners with DataStax to Provide Cassandra Big Data Analytics Connector
First Low-Latency Open Source BI Solution Integrated with Cassandra Distributed Database…
DataStax Partners with Simba Technologies for Big Data ODBC Connector
SAN MATEO, August 8, 2012 and Cassandra Summit 2012 – DataStax™, the commercial company behind Apache Cassandra™,.. today announced a partnership with Simba Technologies, the industry’s ODBC expert for Big Data solutions, to provide an ODBC 3.52 Hive connector to DataStax Enterprise, the massively scalable NoSQL platform built on Apache Cassandra that is architected to manage real-time, analytic and enterprise search data in the same database cluster.
DataStax Appoints Lara Shackelford as Vice President of Marketing
San Mateo, Calif. – August 7, 2012 – DataStax, the commercial company behind Apache Cassandra..™, the massively scalable NoSQL database, announced that legendary marketing executive Lara Shackelford has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing.
Big Names Line Up to Share Business Use Cases at 2012 Cassandra Summit
San Mateo, Calif. – August 7, 2012 – DataStax™, the commercial company behind Apache Cassandra™, the massively scalable NoSQL database, today announced the speaker lineup for the 2012 Cassandra Summit...
Gazzang and DataStax Partner to Deliver Robust Data Security for Big Data
Customers Now Have Access to Enterprise-Class Encryption and Key Management Solutions that Complement the Speed, Agility and Performance of Big Data…
DataStax Earns Spot on CRN’s List of Ten Coolest Big Data Startups of 2012
SAN MATEO, Calif., July 23, 2012 – DataStax, the commercial company behind Apache Cassandra™, today announced that the company earned a coveted spot on CRN’s list of the Top Ten Coolest Big Data Startups of 2012...
DataStax Enterprise 2.1 Launches with Enhanced Hadoop Capabilities, Faster Performance, and Support for Oracle Unbreakable Linux
Enhancements Solidify DataStax Enterprise’s Position as the Only Big Data Solution that Offers an Integrated Platform for Managing OLTP, Analytic and Search Data Together in One Database…
DataStax Strengthens Management Team With Appointment of Martin Van Ryswyk
Industry Veteran to Lead Product Development for Commercial Apache Cassandra and NoSQL Leader…
DataStax Enterprise 2.0 Now Available With HP Cloud Services
Combination of Apache Cassandra™, Apache Hadoop™, and Apache Solr™ Creates Big Data Platform for Real-Time, Analytics, and Search Data Management…
DataStax Enterprise 2.0 Adds Enterprise Search Capabilities to Smart Big Data Platform
Combination of Apache Cassandra™, Apache Hadoop™, and Apache Solr™ Creates Big Data Platform for Real-Time, Analytics, and Search Data Management…
DataStax and Pentaho Jointly Deliver Complete Analytics Solution for Apache Cassandra
Pentaho and DataStax announce strategic partnership delivering the first complete Apache Cassandra-based big data analytics solution to the market…
DataStax Launches First Complete Solution for Cassandra Development on Windows and Mac
Industry Leader Responds to User Base and Makes Cassandra Easier to Install and use on Key Development Platforms…
DataStax take Apache Cassandra™ Mainstream in 2011; Poised for Growth and Innovation in 2012
Industry Leader Leads Charge in New Big Data Movement – Apache Cassandra – Surpasses 100+ Customer Mark and Drives Innovative New Solutions…
2011
Are You a Cassandra Jedi? – Call For Submissions Opens for Cassandra NYC 2011
Demand for Third Apache Cassandra™ Conference Driven by Growing Cassandra Community and Big Data Challenges; Event to Showcase New Use Cases and Deployments BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Announces General Availability of DataStax Enterprise and DataStax Community Edition
Company Also Passes 100 Customer Milestone and Adds a Startup Program to Enable Young Companies to Easily Enable the Apache Cassandra™ Advantage BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Launches DataStax Enterprise
On the Heels of Securing $11M Funding, DataStax Releases the Industry’s First Distributed, Scalable, and Highly-Available Database Platform Powered by Apache Cassandra™ BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Secures $11 Million in Funding; Driving Apache Cassandra™ Momentum in Real-Time Big Data and Analytics
Company Names Eric Chin, a Partner at Crosslink Capital and Digital Media Expert, to Board BURLINGAME, Calif…
WSO2 and DataStax Partner to Facilitate Enterprise-Class, Open Source Data Management in the Cloud with Apache Cassandra
WSO2 and DataStax Offer Complementary Technologies, Services, and Open Source Licensing to Meet Developers’ Demands for Enterprise-Class Private and Public Clouds Palo Alto, CA and Burlingame, CA – September 14, 2011 – WSO2 and DataStax today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enabling enterprise-class data management in the cloud through Apache Cassandra™ and WSO2 Data as a Service…
DataStax Announces New Executive Appointments and new Version of DataStax OpsCenter
Industry Veterans Strengthen Engineering and Product Management Teams. Also announces key updates to flagship DataStax OpsCenter for Apache Cassandra™ and Hadoop BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Announces Cassandra SF 2011 in San Francisco
Second Annual Conference Serves Rapidly Growing Cassandra, Hadoop, and Big Data Communities, Highlighting Use Cases, Data-centric application development, Scaling, Cloud Strategies, and More BURLINGAME, Calif…
Billy Bosworth Joins DataStax as CEO
Database Industry Executive Brings Significant Revenue Growth Experience to Commercial Leader in Apache Cassandra BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Releases Dramatically Simpler, More Reliable, High-Performance Hadoop Solution
DataStax’ Brisk is Open-Source and Available Now for Download BURLINGAME, Calif…
DataStax Rewires Hadoop for Low-Latency Applications with Apache Cassandra
DataStax’ Brisk Provides Unified Big-Data Platform for Low-Latency Applications and Hadoop/Hive Analytics GIGAOM STRUCTURE CONF…
DataStax Injects Scale into Real-Time Web and Enterprise Applications with Apache Cassandra™
STRATA CONFERENCE AND BURLINGAME, Calif. – Feb. 1, 2011 – DataStax (formerly Riptano – www.datastax.com), the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™, today announced DataStax OpsCenter for Apache Cassandra at the Strata Conference (www.strataconf.com). DataStax OpsCenter is the first platform for managing, monitoring and operating enterprise Cassandra applications. With the new product, Cassandra users now have the most advanced operations environment bundled with expert support for their real-time, high-volume, and low-latency applications.
2010
Riptano, the Commercial Cassandra Company, Raises $2.7 Million in Series A Funding
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Riptano™ Incorporated announced today the closing of $2.7 million Series A financing. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the financing with participation from Sequoia Capital and private investor Jason Calacanis. Riptano is the company providing software, support and training for Apache Cassandra, which is an open source database developed through the combination of Amazon and Google technology. Riptano Co-Founder and CEO Matt Pfeil announced that the company has added John Vrionis of Lightspeed Venture Partners to its board.
Digital Reasoning and Riptano Advance Cassandra-Based Analytic Solutions
FRANKLIN, Tenn. & AUSTIN, Texas (BUSINESS WIRE)– Digital Reasoning™ Systems Inc., the leader in complex, large scale unstructured data analytics, and Riptano®, the company providing software, support and training for Apache™ Cassandra, announced a partnership to advance the deployment of cloud-scale analytics solutions in government and commercial markets. Cassandra is the leading scalable and high performance open-source database used by Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Cisco and many others in the commercial markets.
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