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JP Morgan warns of “major ripple effect” as cloud adoption accelerates
JP Morgan analysts has weighed in with an ominous warning to legacy vendors that cloud giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are set to dominate the enterprise infrastructure landscape in the coming years. The fifty-page report, which was sent to clients last week and summed up by Barron’s Blog, states that “IBM, HP and ...
Mesosphere shunts DC/OS into the realm of open-source
Container-orientated startup Mesosphere Inc. has gone and open-sourced its popular Data Center Operating System, known as DC/OS, in a move that’s been backed by tech giants like Cisco Systems Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Microsoft and roughly 60 other partners. Mesosphere, which is three-years old and headquartered in San Francisco, built DC/OS as an operating system ...
Can DNA stave off an impending storage crisis?
The amount of data that exists in the world is growing at such a rapid rate that it doubles every two years, according to a a 2011 EMC Digital Universe study. It’s an impressive thought, but it’s also quite an alarming one too, because it means we might soon find ourselves in a situation where we’ve ...
Illumio wants to toughen up your data center
For those tasked with defending their data centers from security threats, they need to know more than just what those threats are. They need to understand how those threats work, and, more importantly, the kinds of weaknesses and paths to exploitation they follow. With that in mind, adaptive security firm Illumio has just announced a ...
Teradata doubles down on IoT analytics and hybrid cloud services
Big Data warehouse giant Teradata Corp. looks like it’s switching its focus to hybrid cloud services and the Internet of Things, likely as part of an initiative to head off declining sales revenues in other parts of its business. That much is clear after a slew of announcements on the first day of its Teradata ...
BlackBerry’s John Chen explains why he helped Canada’s cops hack one of its phones
When the Royal Mounted Canadian Police wanted to take down some bad guys, BlackBerry Ltd., a name synonymous with security and privacy, was only too eager to help out. Unlike its larger phone-making brethren Apple, which flatly refused all requests for assistance from the FBI, BlackBerry jumped at the chance to help out Canada’s foremost ...
Dell, Red Hat, Cumulus fire up 300-node OpenStack cluster with DevOps tools
OpenStack deployments can be easily managed and deployed using open-source DevOps tools and networking solutions, as demonstrated in a new proof-of-concept (PoC) by Cumulus Networks, Dell Inc. and Red Hat Inc. The three vendors teamed up to create a massive 300+ node OpenStack cluster using Dell’s servers and networking switches, Red Hat’s OpenStack platform, and ...
Elliott plays matchmaker again as Mitel hooks up with Polycon
Enterprise communications giant Mitel Networks Corp. has agreed a $1.96 billion deal to acquire its larger unified communications rival Polycom Inc. The deal marks another successful gambit from the infamous ‘activist investor’ firm Elliott Management Inc., which previously helped to influence Dell Inc.’s massive $67 billion takeover of storage giant EMC corp. In this case, ...
Ruby on Rails interpreter finds flaws in a flash
Hacker bounties may soon be a thing of the past, if the researchers at MIT have anything to do with it. The boffins there have successfully created a Ruby on Rails “interpreter” that’s able to find flaws in code much faster than any human programmer can do. Called “Space”, the researchers have tested the software ...
Facebook paves the ground for a wave of smarter chatbots
Out of nowhere, bots are suddenly all the rage. Last week at Build 2016, we saw Microsoft release a bunch of bot-building tools for developers. Now, Facebook is throwing its hat into the bot battle with the beta launch of Bot Engine, a new tool that uses machine learning to make chatbots more intelligent. Bot ...