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CrowdChat empowers CSC to drive unprecedented engagement, says CTO | #OOW14
Until not so long ago, communications between senior management and the broader workforce at global firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) only went one way, resulting in a rigid atmosphere that didn’t afford the rank and file an active voice in their work. The advent of social media opened up a channel for dialogue ...
Bigwigs unite to promote open standards for telco networks
Déjà vu struck the networking industry on Tuesday when a coalition of leading vendors declared that they’ve joined forces under the banner of The Linux Foundation to develop open standards meant to accelerate the adoption of next generation solutions. The elevator pitch is practically identical to that of the OpenDaylight Project the same suppliers launched ...
After a year of incubation, Apache welcomes Storm into the Hadoop family
Real-time analysis in Hadoop moved a step closer to enterprise reality on Monday after the Apache Software Foundation promoted Storm to a top-level project. The status upgrade charts a future for the continued development of the platform under the same community umbrella that governs the batch processing framework and its sprawling component ecosystem. Like most ...
Oracle OpenWorld day 2: Mobile and verticals take center stage | #OOW14
After unloading the bulk of the updates to its core portfolio during the opening day of OpenWorld 2014, Oracle Corp. is shifting gears with a second batch of product reveals that moves the focus beyond traditional corporate apps to mobile workers, developers and vertical industries. . Mobile-first The poster child for the new direction is ...
The state of OpenStack’s community, according to the Foundation’s head | #OpenStackSV
Four years after launch, OpenStack is finally starting to see the first user communities forming, according to the head of the industry consortium that oversees the development of the fast-emerging cloud framework. In his latest appearance on theCUBE during a recent community gathering at the Computer History Museum, OpenStack Foundation executive director hailed the trend ...
Three months late and $200M short, IBM-Lenovo server deal finally looks to be closing
Lenovo Group Ltd. is on course to becoming the world’s third largest supplier of commodity servers after regulators signed off on a multi-billion dollar deal that will see it take over IBM’s x86 business. The acquisition is expected to complete on Wednesday, three months behind the expected schedule outlined when the companies first revealed plans ...
Oracle completes cloud pivot by releasing flagship products as services | #OOW14
After years of trying to ignore the trend into non-existence, Oracle Corp is finally giving up on swimming against the cloud computing current and following arch-rivals SAP SE and IBM in making its flagship software products available on a service basis. Now that it’s embraced the new reality of technology deployment, the company has no ...
OpenDaylight gets a lot more open – and functional – with second “Helium” release
Just short of eight months after launch, the OpenDaylight Project is already marking its second lap towards unifying the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem with a new major release that fully lives up to the breakneck reputation of community-driven projects. The successor to the original Hydrogen version appropriately takes the name of the next element on ...
Here’s why the intelligence community bought a stake in MemSQL
You probably haven’t heard of the newest database startup in In-Q-Tel’s investment portfolio, but if history is anything to go by, there’s more than a good chance you will. Consisting almost solely of big names such as Cloudera Inc. and MongoDB Inc., the exclusive club of analytics vendors to have acknowledged receiving funding from the ...
Rackspace boasts 99.99% uptime and adds containers to OpenStack with private cloud upgrade
Rackspace Inc. is upping the ante in the race to bring OpenStack into the enterprise mainstream with a new version of its private cloud offering that implements the latest release of the project with a production-grade uptime guarantee and value-added capabilities for large environments. The scope of the update should dispel any remaining doubts that ...