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Yahoo Loses Hadoop Leader; Data Chief Moves to Battery Ventures
Todd Papaioannou, the VP and chief cloud architect at Yahoo who was responsible for the cloud and Hadoop teams working at the internet company, resigned to take on the role of entrepreneur in residence at Battery Ventures. Papaioannou only joined Yahoo last year, and explained in a chat with GigaOM that the reason he left ...
PushBI Tops Business Apps for iPad, Android Tablets this Week
This week we’ve rounded up five of the best iPad and Honeycomb business apps. Tablets are of increasing importance as Android seeks to dominate this sector too. With the latest Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 release, Android’s wish is on its way to becoming true. The mobile workforce is hungry for apps that free them from ...
Cloud Week in Review: iCloud for Developers, VMware License Update
There were a few major updates this week in the cloud space, starting with VMware’s vSphere 5 licensing change. When the fifth version of the currently dominant hypervisor was launched, the company sought to cash in the long expected software by implementing a licensing model based on processors, which ended up being costlier to customers ...
Bitcoin Hackathon in Finland Sept 2-4 Seeking Software Engineers
The Bitcoin Hackathon conference will be held in Aalto Venture Garage, Betonimiehenkuja 3, Espoo, Finland on September 2-4. The free 2-day event is the latest evidence of the tech and startup boom the Nordic region has been going through in recent times, especially now in light of Nokia’s massive layoffs and a growing pool of ...
Gluster Powers Biometric Solution Firm’s Open Cloud
Open-source cloud storage platform provider Gluster announced that CIC, a maker of biometric signature verification solutions for the financial industry, has migrated to the cloud using Gluster’s offerings. The platform will run in CIC’s AWS and RightScale environment to maintain the security firm’s SLAs. “Reliability and performance are the major focal points of our IT ...
Nokia’s Decline Spurs Innovation in Finland as Engineers Discover Startups
Finland has seen a boom in the startup scene recently, and the numbers are there to back that up. European tech blog ArcticStartup made some calculations and found that Finland had the highest average venture capital investment per capita last year when compared to the other Nordic nations, standing at $46. Sweden took the second place with ...
Pre-Earnings Recap on Fusion-io
Flash storage solutions provider Fusion-io is having its first earnings call today since it went public in June, making it a good time to recap on how the company has been doing in this timeframe. The most recent development comes from a white paper released by StatSoft, a maker of data analytics and management offerings. ...
Intel Labs’ New Open Cloud Research Centers, Grows Investment
Intel, being the largest player in the semiconductor market by sales, has a lot to gain from the accelerating cloud computing adoption in the enterprise, and the subsequent increased demand for servers powered by its chips. One of the ways the company is looking to gain its an edge is investing in research. Intel Labs ...
EU Antitrust Complaints Against IBM Dropped By 3 Firms
Big Blue’s monopoly in the mainframe market has been subject to some scrutiny from the EU lately, mainly after three smaller firms trying to compete in this market filled antitrust complaints against IBM. TurboHercules , a France-based company that sells the Hercules open-source emulator, clone mainframe maker T3 Technologies and Neon Software, which developed the zPrime workload ...
EMC Rolls Out RSA Security Update, Acquires Stake in Asankya
Storage giant EMC had a couple of updates today, first and foremost an announcement coming from the Black Hat cybersecuirty conference. The company introduced NetWitness Panorama as well as several significant updates to its RSA enVision Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. The former is the newest threat management and log analysis module to ...