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Evernote Corp., the company behind the popular note-taking app of the same name, has retreated from a controversial new privacy policy that would have allowed its staff to read the contents of users’ notes. Evernote updated its privacy policy last week, saying …
Report: Cloud migration could provide annual cost savings of 43%
TSO Logic Inc., a company whose software helps companies optimize their applications across data centers and the cloud, has just bolstered the argument for migrating to the cloud. In its latest report, “The Economics Behind Cloud Migration and Enterprise Transformation,” the company reveals …
MariaDB aims to make big data analytics more accessible with ColumnStore
MariaDB Corp., the database company that sells a commercial version of the open-source MySQL database of the same name, is attempting to unite transactional and analytic processing in a single front end to deliver enterprise-grade big data analytics. The company has just …
Red Hat’s new OpenStack Platform release seeks to remedy cloud complexity
Red Hat Inc. wants to make the deployment of cloud computing easier in hopes of making it attractive to more large enterprises, not just early adopters. With that in mind, the Raleigh, N.C.-based company on Thursday unveiled OpenStack Platform 10, based on …
Google throws its weight behind open-source Cloud Foundry
Google Inc. on Thursday threw its weight behind the open-source Cloud Foundry Foundation, the organization that heads up development of the open source cloud platform Cloud Foundry. Google has signed on as a gold member of the foundation, joining companies such as EMC Corp., …
Big Data software startup Databricks pockets $60 million in Series C funding
Databricks Inc., the company that spearheads the development of the popular Big Data platform Apache Spark, has just snagged its largest funding round to date. The company has just announced its closed on a $60 million Series C funding round led by …
Crate.io unveils database for real-time machine data analysis
CrateDB, an open-source distributed SQL database for real-time analysis of machine data that has already been downloaded more than a million times in the past two years has finally announced its finished 1.0 release. In line with the announcement, Crate.io, the company …
Yahoo suffers second major hack, 1 billion+ user accounts stolen
The credentials of more than a billion Yahoo Inc. user accounts may have been stolen in a second major hack on the struggling Internet portal’s systems. The company said Wednesday that the hackers may have even figured out a way to log …
Report: Internet of Things needs coordinated U.S. government strategy to thrive
The U.S. government needs to create a national strategy that covers data security and interoperability standards in order to coordinate private sector efforts to deploy the Internet of Things, the Center for Data Innovation said in a report published Monday. The report …
Microsoft announces public beta of Docker for Azure
Microsoft Corp. and Docker Inc. have just announced the public beta of Docker software containers for the software giant’s Azure cloud computing service. Previously, Docker for Azure was only available as a private preview, having been announced at DockerCon 2016 in June. Docker …