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Microsoft buys 202-acre plot for new Washington state data center
Software juggernaut Microsoft is acquiring 202 acres of land in its home state of Washington for a new hydroelectric data center meant to support fast growing demand for its cloud services. The company will shell out $11 million as part of a purchase and sale agreement with the Port of Quincy, which will in exchange ...
Attunity’s Lawrence Schwartz on the intersection of Big Data and the Internet of Things
New sources of information have created an opportunity for decision makers to gain unprecedented insight into the bottom line, but there remain a number of technical barriers to unlocking the true value of Big Data. In a recent interview with SiliconANGLE Senior Editor Kristen Nicole, Lawrence Schwartz, vice president of marketing at Attunity, detailed how ...
Weekly security review: RSA lashes out over bribe allegations, mobile security takes spotlight
RSA, EMC’s security division, was recently dragged into the NSA scandal by a Reuters reporter accusing it of accepting a $10 million bribe from the spy agency to insert a vulnerability into the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, or Dual EC DRBG, a widely used cipher implemented by companies worldwide. If the story ...
Internet of Things review: Oculus bags $75M for VR, China joins iPhone craze
The Internet of Things is taking on new heights, with an ever-widening range of connected devices driving an unprecedented shift in the way we interact with technology. A company called Oculus is leading the charge with its namesake virtual reality headset, which succeeded in drawing the interest of both gamers and prominent Silicon Valley investors. ...
Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop gets smarter and more secure
To move beyond the Big Data hype, business users need a new breed of applications that can not only accommodate information growth, but also separate the signal from the noise to improve decision making. These are the kind of apps Resolution Analytics wants customers to build using the latest release of its enterprise R distribution, ...
Weekly Cloud review: OpenStack, Oracle and Alibaba’s push against AWS
The cloud is expanding in all directions, with end users embracing on-demand software en mass and enterprises increasingly abstracting their traditional IT environments for enhanced provisioning and resource utilization. OpenStack is at the forefront of the latter trend, eliminating proprietary hardware and software requirements to create highly automated pools of compute that can be managed ...
Hardware juggernauts battle over shrinking monitor market
Demand for computer displays has predictably been dragged down further by the slowing PC market, but an encouraging third quarter sales uplift indicates it’s not time to jump ship just yet. The latest market report from IDC reveals that while monitor shipments are down 8.6 percent year-over-year, the number of units sold increased 4.5 percent ...
Alibaba expands overseas as part of Cloud push against AWS
Alibaba Group, China’s top e-commerce firm, is expected to overtake Amazon by 2015 to become the world’s largest online retailer. Unsatisfied, the Hangzhou-based company is now opening a new front against its American rival with an ambitious plan to secure a foothold in the global cloud services market, which Gartner says surpassed $130 billion in ...
Google revamps billing to make the Cloud more transparent
Following the example of Amazon, Google is making it easier for developers to keep tabs on their cloud deployments with a new feature that offers visibility into the resource utilization of applications running on its infrastructure. Currently in preview, Billing Export is pegged as a more convenient alternative to managing costs from the Google Cloud ...
Watch out Accumulo: IBM wins patent for fully homomorphic encryption
Decision makers are breaking down information silos to gain a better view of their companies and customers, but successfully implementing analytics at an organizational level is much easier said than done. In a world of tight budgets, CIOs seeking to tap into data from multiple sources have to meet performance objectives and keep risks in ...