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BB Z10 Security Issues Lie in Native Programs – Could Be a Hard Flaw to Fix
One of BlackBerry’s biggest perks is its high security, appealing to corporate executives and government officials alike. And as the phone-maker struggles to regain its market leadership, BlackBerry faces obstacles in the UK. This week, the UK’s Communications-Electronics Security Group rejected BlackBerry 10 OS as not secure enough for classified material. The CESG certified the ...
What’s the Difference Between Hyperscale and Traditional Enterprise IT?
Hyperscale storage is becoming an increasingly viable option for the datacenter, with industry heavyweights putting more resources into the software behind technology. Most recently we’ve seen a string of hyperscale product releases from Fusion-io, where smarter software was key to managing this level of datacenter restructuring. Here to break down the differences between hyperscale storage ...
Xbox Hack Attack Leaves Microsoft Employees Exposed [Video]
Seems everyone’s getting hacked these days. Just this week Microsoft revealed that the Xbox Live accounts of several high-ranking employees were hijacked using the same method that hackers used to bully Brian Krebs, a security expert turned blogger who recently uncovered an underground hacker marketplace. SiliconAngle founding editor Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins discussed the latest news ...
What Drives Alpha Geeks? Crunching Data for the Greater Good
We talk about the technology behind Big Data a great deal, but it’s important to remember the large scale implications of what Big Data becomes once it’s been contextualized for the human experience. Big Data technology can do some amazing calculations, but that’s a meaningless unless those calculations can help people help themselves. And who ...
Sqrrl Appoints New CEO to Spearhead Big Data Security Push
This morning, sqrrl announced that Mark Terenzoni will be taking over as company’s chief executive officer. The newly appointed CEO brings twenty years of experience to the Cambridge-based startup, which was founded in 2012 by the team behind Apache Accumulo. Terenzoni joins sqrrl from F5 Networks, where he served as the senior vice president of ...
Itanium Damage Done, HP Wants $4 Billion from Oracle
Prior to the acquisition of Sun, Oracle entered into a long term agreement with HP to develop software for Intel’s Itanium chips, which can be found in a large percentage of the latter’s high-end enterprise boxes. Everything went according to plan until 2011, when Larry Ellison’s firm declared that it will prematurely stop supporting the ...
10gen Adds Search, Other Necessary Perks for Enterprise Appeal : MongoDB 2.4
As Big Data’s influence continues to show in the datacenter, the platforms making things smarter at every level of the stack grow in distinction and support. In another play for the enterprise, 10gen launched new versions of its flagship NoSQL database and its commercial offering. MongoDB Enterprise brings several new features to the toolbox, wooing ...
MapR Gets $30M Round : Big Boost for Hadoop Ecosystem, Apache Drill
This morning MapR announced that it has closed a $30 series C financing led by Mayfield Fund, a Menlo Park, CA-based VC that invests almost exclusively in early-stage startups. Existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round, which puts the company’s total funding at $59 million. MapR says that ...
The Role of Alpha Geek in the Enterprise: Data Scientist Deep Dive
Our economy and unemployment rate seem to be in a constant state of flux. But one of the most promising jobs in one of the strongest sectors is that of the data scientist, applicable to the tech industry and just about every other market. But as far as the enterprise goes, where does the data ...
Splunk Delivers Relational DB Integration with New Connector
Yesterday Splunk unveiled a new connector that provides real-time integration between its flagship analytics platform and traditional database systems from major vendors. DB Connect offers the user a convenient means to feed structured data directly into Splunk Enterprise, a big time and money saver for enterprise clients that store a sizable chunk of their information ...