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“Big Red” keeps pace with VMware with Oracle VM 3.4
Oracle has just updated its virtualization software, bringing it up to speed with its more illustrious rivals VMware Inc. and Microsoft. The newly released Oracle VM 3.4 is the first edition of the software to feature storage live migration, something that’s been available in VMware’s more popular vSphere offering for some time (as well as ...
Fortress Google: A sneak peek at Google’s data center security systems
With defensive measures in place like dual authentication systems, vehicle-access barriers, high-resolution cameras, laser beam intrusion detection systems, biometric iris scanners and electronic access cards, you’d think we were describing a “Supermax” prison, or the U.S. Air Force’s notorious Area 51, or perhaps The United States Bullion Depository located within Fort Knox. Actually, we’re not. ...
Galactic Exchange can get your Hadoop cluster up and running in just 5 minutes
Stealthy startup Galactic Exchange Inc. burst out of the shadows this weekend touting a new product that’s able to spin up an Hadoop or Spark cluster, ready to go, in just five minutes. By doing so, it eliminates much of the complexity from what has traditionally been an extremely complex job. Galactic Exchange is set ...
Microsoft touts “Holoportation” with HoloLens for remote meet ups
Microsoft’s research division has developed a new kind of 3D video capture system it’s calling “holoportation”, which allows people to be ‘rendered’ in 3D inside any environment. You can think of it as a kind of inverse “holodeck”, as seen in the famous Star Trek TV series. Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies group released a ...
Dell close to finalizing $3.5bn sale of IT Services unit to Japan’s NTT
It’s being reported that Dell Inc. is set to announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Corp. for $3.5 billion later today, finalizing a process that began late last year. Dell wants to sell off the division, which was previously known as Perot Services, in order to help raise ...
Native Docker app lands on Windows & Mac
Being a native application, Docker containers have always been dead easy to get up and running on Linux systems. But that wasn’t the case for Windows and OS X users, until today. Now, Docker Inc. is making things easier for users of those platforms with the beta release of Docker for Windows and Docker for ...
Microsoft wants to finance Yahoo’s takeover to the tune of $1Bn
Yahoo Inc.’s proposed sale has been a long, drawn out affair, but fresh funds from Microsoft may help to accelerate things. According to a report in Re/Code, Microsoft executives are said to be meeting with a number of private equity firms to discuss a possible takeover of the ailing former Internet giant. Re/Code’s Kara Swisher ...
Now you can take a 360-degree virtual tour of Google’s data center
Google’s data centers are among the biggest, most complicated, and sophisticated in the world. But they’re also among the most secure, which means only a few select Google employees ever get a chance to see them up close. Until now. As of today, it’s now possible for anyone to take a look inside the inner ...
Diane Greene gives Google fresh impetus in the Cloud Wars
Diane Greene took to the stage at GCP Next 2016 yesterday, with the message that Google’s Cloud Platform is ready to rock ‘n’ roll in the enterprise. Google Cloud Platform has been steadily growing its offerings over the last year, while at the same time fighting tooth and nail with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft ...
Google unveils Stackdriver, a unified monitoring tool for AWS and Google’s cloud
Google took the wraps off of its Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool at GCP Next 2016 in San Francisco yesterday, which allows IT managers to monitor traffic, notifications, and diagnostic functions on both the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google acquired the technology for Stackdriver when it purchased the company of the ...