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Canonical ushers Ubuntu into the Internet of Things
Canonical Ltd. is making the container-centric edition of its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution available for connected devices in a major expansion of its existing mobile efforts into the Internet of Things. Ubuntu Core made its original debut almost four years ago with the explicit goal of providing an alternative to MontaVista and VxWorks from Intel ...
What you missed in Cloud: One-upsmanship
The public cloud saw a spike in activity last week as both emerging providers and established names stepped up their fight over infrastructure spending amid growing interest from new types of buyers. Google provided the initial push with the release of a service that promises to provide visibility into applications running on competing platforms. The launch ...
What you missed in Big Data: VCs and IPOs
It’s investors who set the pace for analytics last week as no fewer than three database startups separately raised additional funding to step up their efforts toward changing the way enterprises manage their vast information troves. Basho Inc. kicked off the funding bonanza by bagging $25 million from Georgetown Parners to fuel its aggressive growth strategy. ...
China’s Baidu builds its own supercomputer to beat Google at image search
Baidu, Inc. is upping the ante in its fight with Google for image-recognition supremacy with what it hails as a record-setting computer vision system capable of recognizing different variations of the same image better than any other artificial intelligence on the planet. The secret? A dedicated supercomputer. The Chinese search giant’s homegrown neural network runs ...
Google cloud gains ground in public sector with Australian pilot
Google appears to have the inside track on a pilot cloud computing contract with the Australian Department of Defence, giving it an important victory in the race among cloud service providers to tap into public sector spending worldwide. Responding to a legislator’s request for clarifications that ZDNet picked up on Thursday, the ministry revealed that ...
MapR CEO confirms plans for late-2015 IPO
The race to to the stock exchange in the Hadoop ecosystem is entering its second phase. A month and a half after Hortonworks Inc. became the first distributor of the data crunching framework to begin trading on the NASDAQ, the founder and CEO of one of its biggest rivals has revealed plans to follow suit. ...
Google takes on Amazon in its own back yard with new cloud monitoring service in a week
Days after launching a new service for tracking the performance of applications running on its public cloud, Google is rolling out another monitoring option that takes the fight against Amazon to an entirely new front: the retail giant’s own platform. Google Cloud Monitoring is based on technology that the search giant obtained through the acquisition ...
Intel-backed consortium seeks to connect Internet of Things
After seven months of collaboration, Intel and its partners in the Open Interconnect Consortium are finally launching the initial release of their much-anticipated standard for machine-to-machine communications. The protocol is meant to allow the billions of connected devices set to fly out of factories in the coming years to freely exchange information. That interoperability, if ...
MongoDB seizes surging investor interest in NoSQL for another $80 million round
MongoDB Inc., the most well-funded startup in the NoSQL database world, has climbed higher still on the venture capital chart with a $80 million round that brings its total raised to nearly double that of itsnearest competitor. The funding round is a landmark for the segment as enterprises continue to shift spending away from traditional relational ...
Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction
New data from Deutsche Bank Group AG suggests that the explosive adoption of Hadoop will have a tangible impact on enterprise technology spending in 2015. The research counters some recent dour assessments of Hadoop’s enterprise-readiness and should put a smile on the faces of vendors pushing the bandwagon. Standing to gain the most from increased ...