Data today is too distributed and too large to move it to where the processing is performed. Now, businesses must find ways to move the processing close to the data—and the closer, the better.

From its humble beginnings in the AMPLab at U.C. Berkeley in 2009, Apache Spark has become one of the key big data distributed processing frameworks in the world.

Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing.

Expanso, a distributed data processing startup led by Google and Microsoft vets, raises $7.5M. by Taylor Soper on November 21, 2023 at 7:24 am November 21, 2023 at 7:24 am.