A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web.

Business News

Google has reportedly acquired sensor company Lumedyne for $85M – Venture Beat

Obvious use is in driverless cars, but Lumedyne has other sensor patents that could be part of Google’s bigger Internet of Things strategy.

HP schedules divorce for 1 November – Computing

The date looks like the only news here, that and the estimated breakup cost of $2 billion-$3 billion. Oh, and there’s a new logo meant to symbolize both opportunity and eco-friendliness.

IBM to close Many Eyes – Computerworld

Perhaps Big Blue is throwing in the towel on crowdsourced data visualization, or perhaps it just wants to focus everything on Watson. In any case, Many Eyes shuts down next week.

Product News

Microsoft shows Linux love, adding support for SSH to PowerShell – PC World

Secure Shell support enables Windows users to run terminal commands on both Linux and Windows machines. Previously, this capability was limited only to remote logins to Windows machines. Ars Technica points out that tools like PuTTY have long been available on Windows platforms, but it’s not that easy to use on Windows.

Facebook testing enterprise messaging tool aimed at customer service – The Next Web

Now you can save replies to popular user questions and complaints, which should really make your customers feel special.

Oracle brings Ghostery into Marketing Cloud to help users monitor their websites – Network World

Ghostery is “designed to help reveal the interconnected ecosystem of code and third-party tags on company websites.” This makes it easier for companies to identify surreptitious tags that may cause data leaks or impact performance.

H-P, Arista Agree to Bundle Data-Center Hardware, Software – Wall Street Journal

Under the partnership agreement, HP supplies computing and storage hardware while Arista kicks in networking hardware and software. Analysts say this is an HP play for the hyper-converged market as well as a backup strategy for ensuring a supply of network hardware in the wake of HP’s sale of 51% of its H3C networking unit in China to Tsinghua Holdings co.

Microsoft updates Dynamics ERP app – Computerworld

Improved integration with Azure tops the list of features, which also includes some nice user interface enhancements.

Trends & Analysis

Human error to blame as UK data breach investigations surge – The Register

UK data breach investigations within the financial services industry almost trebled over the last two years, with human error responsible 93% of the time.

Hybrid cloud: Define what it is, then decide what you want – The Register

Good tutorial by Dave Cartwright looks at the three most common hybrid cloud deployment options and what you need to pull off each of them.

Facebook farewells flaky SHA-1 – The Register

Creaky old digital signature algorithm to be retired. Developers need to move to SHA-2

The Collapse Of Storage – VMware Blogs

Popular blogger and former EMC media star Chuck Hollis argues that we are near the end of the storage world as we know it. Storage is being integrated back into servers, and that means hypervisors will be the nexus point for storage management. Hollis outlines four major trends that are causing traditional storage to collapse and raising the profile of the hypervisor manager.

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