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As its name implies, the Cisco Spark Board is built around the company's proprietary cloud-based Spark service, leveraging mobile devices running the app for remote collaborations.
In addition to the Cloud Spanner news, Google Cloud today announced that its Cloud Dataproc Hadoop and Spark service now supports the R language, in addition to Python 3.7 support on App Engine.
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In addition, Microsoft announced that R Server for HDInsight (essentially the cloud-based version of R Server) is coming out of preview later this summer and Spark for Azure HDInsight is now generally available with support for managed Spark services from Hortonworks.
Cloudera and Hortonworks have both moved to provide consistent hybrid- and multi-cloud capable services, but I see @AWS EMR and Spark services and similar Azure and Google services as capturing faster growth, and together, the lion's share of the big data platforms market," he explained.
Sprint's own "Spark" wireless service promises 120 Mbps connectivity.
Microsoft could have built its own Spark-based service, of course.
As IBM is wont to do in these situations, it's going all in, not only committing the 3500 researchers, but also placing Spark as a service on its Bluemix Platform as a Service offering to allow its customers to build applications using Spark.
That new competition would push down prices, improve service, spark innovation, and also ease the concerns about discrimination that provoked the F.C.C.'s net-neutrality mandate in the first place.
In October, IBM announced Spark as a service on Bluemix, and ported its Data Works product to Spark.
Unlike some platforms, which operate a platform as a service, Spark Core is pitched as a "platform as a component".
What's really changed is that they now interoperate with Spark's web service, which means you can create content from a laptop, Chromebook or tablet.
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