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Dell/EMC merger gets FTC approval
Dell Inc. and EMC Corp.’s proposed merger moved one step closer to realization today when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave it the thumbs up following the expiry of the 1976 Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act-mandated 30-day waiting period. The terms of the HSR Act state that all corporate parties in a proposed merger must file ...
MapR & Ericsson bid to bolster communications with Big Data
MapR Technologies, Inc. is hoping to bring the power of Hadoop and Spark to the communications service provider market. The company is teaming up with Ericsson to develop offerings that leverage MapR’s Converged Data Platform to deliver more efficient, real-time data processing and analysis capabilities to the industry. The two companies aren’t announcing any products ...
What’s next for Apache Spark? Databricks drops a few hints
Databricks Inc., the leading commercial entity behind the Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing framework for Big Data processing, last week dropped a few hints about some of the new features we can expect to see in Spark 2.0. There’s still no concrete release date for Spark 2.0, although it’s widely expected to be ...
Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark service Cloud Dataproc goes live
Google’s Cloud Dataproc service, which has been in beta since last September, has finally hit general availability, the company said. Cloud Dataproc is a service that allows users take advantage of open-source data tools like Hadoop and Apache Spark for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning. It comes with automation tools that allow clusters ...
IBM shunts Swift onto its cloud | #IBMInterConnect
Less than six month after Apple donated the Swift programming language to the open-source community, IBM has officially made it available via its cloud. IBM said it’s the first cloud provider to enable Swift application development on the server-side during the announcement at #IBMInterConnect. In addition, Big Blue also added a preview for the Swift ...
Microsoft will not alter Windows Server hardware support policy
Following on from last month’s ever-so-slightly dictatorial announcement that new PCs will only support Windows 10 and not earlier versions of the OS, Microsoft has penned a somewhat peculiar blog post to say it will NOT be doing the same for Windows Server. Back in January, Microsoft caused more than few nervous IT managers to recoil ...
Lenovo Connect means you can stay online anywhere, without a SIM
Lenovo Group Ltd. has come up with a novel way to keep its PC, tablet and smartphone users connected even when they travel to other countries. The company has just launched a new service called “Lenovo Connect” which means users won’t have to buy a new SIM card each time they visit a new country. ...
Cloudera shores up data pipelines with latest Apache Kafka release
Cloudera Inc. is stepping up its data streaming game with the integration of the latest release of Apache Kafka into its popular Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop distribution. For data-driven organizations, it’s no longer enough to simply get Hadoop up and running. What with the enormous amounts of data such organizations are spewing out, they need newer, ...
Google’s Cloud Vision takes image recognition to the next level
Google has thrown another new AI tool into its developer’s box in the form of its Cloud Vision API. The beta release of Cloud Vision, which had been available in limited preview since last December, is the latest in a flurry of AI-related announcements from Silicon Valley giants, as Google goes head to head with ...
Big Blue touts an easier way to deploy Apache Spark
Big Blue is hoping to smooth the passage for organizations looking to deploy Apache Spark with a new offering aimed at helping them to get the data processing engine up and running as swiftly and as easily as possible. The company’s new Platform Conductor for Spark was announced yesterday at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference ...