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Node.js rapidly driving IoT app development, container adoption
With more than 3.5 million users, the Node.js cross-platform runtime environment is one of the fastest growing platforms for web, IoT and enterprise app development. So popular in fact, that the Node.js Foundation today decided to release its first-ever survey on the state of the technology’s adoption. One of the main findings is that Node.js ...
Datera bursts onto the scene with AWS-like cloud scale-out storage
Datera Inc. has become the latest storage startup to move out of stealth, promising an Amazon Web Services-esque cloud storage offering aimed at large enterprises and service providers. In that respect Datera probably sounds familiar, not least because companies like Ceph, Gluster, SimpliVity and Nutanix all have their own cloud storage platforms. It’s such a ...
Box/IBM intro Box Zones, letting customers choose where their data resides
For many organizations the matter of where there cloud-based data resides is of extreme importance. Organizations have performance, privacy and governance concerns to contend with, and data sovereignty is a big part of this. With that in mind, Box Inc. is expanding its partnership with IBM to introduce Box Zones, giving corporate customers the option ...
Nexenta & Canonical team up on SDS for OpenStack
Canonical Ltd. has teamed up with Nexenta Systems Inc. to create a combined Ubuntu OpenStack and NexentaEdge solution. The two firms have integrated two existing products – Ubuntu’s Juju service model for automating application deployment and management, and NexentaEdge, a combined block and object access storage software offering. This new joint solution provides seamless integration ...
Researchers find a way to easily retrieve data stored in DNA
DNA as a possible method of data storage just moved a step closer towards viability, after researchers found a way to make such data searchable and directly accessible. The University of Washington researchers encoded four images in DNA, then were able to retrieve them perfectly using a technique called Huffman Coding, which is normally used ...
Diamonds may hold the secret to quantum computing
Researchers at MIT may have just cracked one of the biggest challenges in their path to building a quantum computer. The concept of quantum superposition refers to the ability of ‘qubits’, the atomic-scale building blocks of quantum computers, to inhabit multiple physical states at once. Qubits are able to perform computations at orders of magnitude ...
Dell SecureWorks report: Hacking courses, corporate emails accounts for just $500, and much, much more
Cybercrime has gotten so sophisticated that the underground market for such services is little different from more legitimate markets. Hackers on underground forums promote their abilities and products to prospective buyers by listing their experience and skills, while showing off how “honest” they are. Some hackers even boast of things like 24/7 customer service, while ...
OpenStack Mitaka release focuses on ease of use
OpenStack’s evolution continues with the release of its 13th edition, Mitaka. The new release is positioned as “an integration engine that can manage bare metal, virtual machines, and container orchestration frameworks with a single set of APIs” and brings improvements in the areas of manageability, scalability and end-user experience, the community said. In many ways, ...
Gartner predicts worldwide IT spending will decline 0.5% in 2016
Gartner Inc. is warning vendors to prepare for a global decrease in IT spending that it blames on economic uncertainty and currency fluctuations. The gloomy prediction was posted yesterday, with Gartner predicting that global IT spending will fall by 0.5 percent this year to $3.49 trillion, compared with the $3.5 trillion spent last year. Many ...
Jeff Bezos reckons AWS will surpass $10bn in sales this year
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing at such a terrific rate that it’s poised to hit $10 billion in annual sales this year, according to company founder Jeff Bezos. If true, and there’s no real reason to doubt Bezos, it would mean AWS is growing even faster than its parent company Amazon.com, Inc. “This year, ...