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Cloudera takes aim at Big Data pain with new Hadoop release
Big Data leader Cloudera Inc. is hoping to take the sting out of running Hadoop with the latest release of its flagship Cloudera Enterprise 5.5 platform. The new release includes a limited beta of a new tool that helps customers better understand which workloads are most suited to run on Hadoop. The newly integrated Cloudera Navigator ...
Nokia’s Suri says Cisco-Ericsson partnership validates his Alcatel-Lucent takeover
Nokia Oyj CEO Rajeev Suri said the recently announced partnership between Cisco Systems Ltd and Ericsson AB that will see the two companies resell each other’s products and services and develop new ones jointly, confirms that his decision to acquire Alcatel-Lucent SA was the right one. Suri’s comments came as Nokia formally commenced its share ...
Splice Machine revs up RDBMS solution with Apache Spark
Splice Machine Inc. has added some analytical muscle to its SQL-RDBMS-on-Hadoop solution by tapping into Apache Spark’s in-memory technology. The result is a hybrid SQL database businesses can use to perform transactional and analytical workloads in tandem. The database is already a popular alternative to handling multi-terabyte workloads on conventional relational databases like Oracle’s, running ...
Azerbaijan’s Internet access goes up in flames
The entire population of Azerbaijan was wiped off the Internet for several hours on Monday night, after a fire overwhelmed a data center operated by Delta Telecom, the main ISP in the country. Azerbaijan fell into the abyss at around 4 pm local time (7 am New York time), BBC Russia reported. The outage affected ...
Citrix to split itself apart at shareholder’s behest; 1,000 layoffs to come
Beleaguered IT giant Citrix Systems Inc. has announced a major organizational reshuffle that will see it lay off around 1,000 full time staff and spin-off some of its most well-known technologies, while exiting other businesses entirely. The big news is that Citrix is casting off its “GoTo” product family, which includes GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, and GoToMyPC, ...
Microsoft targets enterprise security with $1bn Cyber Defense Operations Center
Microsoft has announced a major new initiative that will see the company build a holistic security platform incorporating the best attack detection, protection and response features built into the Azure cloud, Windows 10, Office 365 and a new Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. In a speech that emphasized the importance of security in a new “mobile ...
EMC’s storage systems sink their teeth into the cloud
EMC Corp. today unveiled a range of new products and solutions aimed at seamlessly connecting primary storage and data protection systems to both public and private clouds. According to the company, the new products allow organizations to take advantage of the unlimited scalability offered by public clouds, and the control and security of private cloud ...
VMware cranks up container efforts with open-source Photon Controller
VMware Inc. has followed up on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its Photon Controller. The Photon Controller is a component of VMware’s much-hyped Photon Platform, a new infrastructure stack built for running “cloud native” (or containerized) applications that the company rolled out at this year’s VMworld event. Other components of the ...
Microsoft to roll out Windows 10 upgrades slower than first thought
Microsoft is likely to shift to a twice-a-year upgrade schedule for Windows 10, as opposed to the original three-times-a-year upgrade cycle it first proposed. Although no one from Microsoft has actually confirmed the new upgrade cycle, Gregg Keizer writes in ComputerWorld that the Redmond company has begun using different terminology in public documentation that talks ...
CoreOS open-sources Clair to clean up container vulnerabilities
Container-loving CoreOS Inc. has just released a new scanning tool that checks for vulnerabilities in containers to the open-source community. The new tool is called “Clair”, and is described as an API-driven analysis engine that inspects containers on a layer-by-layer basis to detect known security floors. “Using Clair, you can easily build services that provide ...
