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Performance trends thrive in Big Data DevOps | HP Vertica event highlights
Modern business produces data from everything it does, and a great deal of that data arises in forms that normal, everyday databases do not handle very well. The result is that much of that data is dismissed or lost into the ether because either it cannot be stored, or it cannot be readily queried. With ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 13: Blockchain exceeds 2 million users, ChangeTip expands social networks, Britain and regulation, and a Chinese mining operation
Blockchain’s wallet service exceeded two million users this week, showing a clear continuing interest in Bitcoin. Tipping in bitcoin has extended beyond Reddit bots and into social media in general as ChangeTip expands out into YouTube, G+, and Twitter. Britain could be looking into regulating Bitcoin as money instead of property as favorable words are ...
Splunk adds real-time streaming capture of over-the-wire data
Splunk, Inc. today announced the general availability of the Splunk App for Stream—a new software-based approach to capturing real-time streaming wire data directly from the network. Wire data is information captured by the network as sent by applications. Splunk App for Stream can be deployed into the cloud or attached to virtual machines, making it ...
Blockchain bitcoin wallet two millionth user signals ever-increasing adoption
Today, Blockchain.info proudly announced it has surpassed two million wallet users. This makes Blockchain the first in the industry to pass this milestone. In late October 2013, Blockchain.info hit 500,000 users; then January this year Blockchain.info announced one million wallet users. A little over six months later and the site has exceeded two million. Part ...
Google Hangouts will get a lot smarter with the aquisition of Emu
Google just enhanced its AI stable with the acquisition of Emu, a texting app with a built in artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant allows users to schedule lunches, share location, and set reminders without needing to go through the usual rigmarole of triggering all the apps involved. Emu uses machine learning and natural language processing ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 6th: Thomson Reuters Eikon adds Bitcoin to index, Overstock.com to pay bonuses in BTC, Wikipedia and Twitch to accept bitcoin payments
Step aside Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters Eikon is adding Bitcoin to its market index—and citing popular customer demand as well as expanded interest in the cryptocurrency as reasons why. This last week, Overstock.com also consolidated its Bitcoin-friendly position when its CEO mentioned expanding BTC payments to international customers; and the company is also planning to offer ...
Splunk courts cloud DevOps with 33% price cut and developer sandbox
In the world of cloud and mobile, businesses have discovered the power of DevOps and continuous uptime. DevOps already provides a consistent paradigm for viewing continuous deployment of software by pushing automation as a path to speed delivery through each stage; but on the operational side being able to predict, prevent, or recover from flaws ...
Mozilla Developer Network accidentally exposes thousands of e-mails, password hashes
Last Friday, Mozilla reported the accidental release of the e-mails of 76,000 Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) users to the public alongside the encrypted passwords of 4,000 users. The disclosure happened due to the failure of a data sanitization process at the MDN site starting on June 23rd and lasting a period of 30 days. Mozilla ...
Moogsoft raises $11.3 million for continuous availability through DevOps
For some time now, the DevOps discussion has been dominated by the paradigm of continuous delivery—develop, test, deploy in an uninterrupted cycle—but Moogsoft Inc. believes that the next stage of DevOps is pushing into continuous availability. The position that DevOps holds in the industry is surrounded by services, cloud and mobile and this means services ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 31: Blockchain.info returns to iOS App Store, Ben Lawsky’s “BitLicense” shredded, Coinsetter launches, Stradivarius violin traded for bitcoin
The long-term drought of Bitcoin-related apps in the iOS App Store is coming to an end after Apple changed its terms of service to be friendlier to apps that trade in virtual currency. The first app to return to the App Store is Blockchain.info, are Coinbase and Coinjar far behind? The NYDFS “BitLicense” reactions are ...