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What you missed in Big Data: Enabling faster analytics
Although the venture capital community is much less generous with its cash than it was a year ago, promising analytics startups are still more than capable of raising funding. Last week saw the investor appeal of data crunching software reaffirmed once again after MapD Technologies Inc. announced that it’s secured a $10 million investment from Nvidia ...
What you missed in Cloud: Improving infrastructure visibility
Like the rest of the industry, the movers and shakers of the cloud ecosystem turned their attention to the Microsoft Build summit last week, which saw the software powerhouse introduce a host of new features for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The release was headlined by a managed code execution tool that provides the ability to have ...
Microsoft poaches Oracle’s “Mr Linux” to head up its open-source efforts
Microsoft Corp.’s human resources department is stepping up its game. Five months after losing one of its division heads to Salesforce.com Inc., the software giant has reportedly poached a key executive from Oracle Corp. who earned the nickname “Mr Linux” for his efforts to promote internal adoption of the open-source operating system. According to ZDNet, ...
BlackBerry’s Q4 revenue misses Wall Street projections by nearly $100M
BlackBerry Ltd’s struggling handset business is declining faster than the market or even its leadership could anticipate. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $487 million during its earnings call this morning, substantially less than the $563 million average analyst forecast for the period. The picture grows even bleaker when comparing the figure with the $660 ...
Microsoft doubles down on cloud transparency at Build 2016
Alongside the developer services that were added to Azure at its Build event this week, Microsoft Corp. rolled out new monitoring functionality designed to help customers keep a closer eye on their cloud deployments. Headlining the release is a tool called Service Profiler that promises to ease the chore of identifying performance issues by visualizing ...
Red Hat will give away its Linux distro for free to developers
Two years after making its JBoss suite of middleware tools free for non-production use, Red Hat Inc. is introducing the ability to download its flagship Linux distribution under the same terms. The move should make it much more straightforward for developers to take advantage of the platform, which has until now been fairly tricky to ...
Microsoft challenges one of AWS’ fastest growing services with Azure Functions
The public cloud provides the ability to rent a supercomputer’s worth of processing power on a moment’s notice for an important task and then deallocate the resources just as fast, but not every project necessities so much infrastructure. In fact, many applications only require the ability to run a few lines of code every now ...
Dell launches beefy new PowerEdge servers with Intel’s latest Xeon chips
Processors may not be getting faster at the same rate they once used to, but data center suppliers are nonetheless continuing to push the envelope on performance. Dell Inc. this morning unveiled a new line of PowerEdge machines that incorporate Intel Corp.’s latest Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips to provide a 20-30 percent speed improvement over ...
Microsoft to open-source newly acquired Xamarin’s cross-platform dev tech
The developer community was caught entirely off guard in November of 2014 when Microsoft Corp. abruptly announced that it’s open-sourcing its popular .NET application framework for Windows. Six quarters and countless code contributions later, however, it should come as much less of a surprise that the software giant is releasing the core components of Xamarin under ...
HPE’s latest servers pack a new kind of memory that can retain data even after outages
The new ProLiant Gen9 models that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching this morning aren’t like most other servers. Instead of just including a few traditional DRAM cards under the hood, the vendor has decided to add the option of fitting the motherboard with a novel type of memory that is described as both faster and ...