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Cloud providers urge reforms for “fundamentally broken” FedRAMP
The FedRAMP Fast Forward advocacy group, which represents Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, IBM and several other big technology firms, as well as a number of federal lawmakers and agencies, has hit out at the government’s process for certifying government cloud providers, saying it’s “fundamentally broken”. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification process was designed ...
Juniper steps up SDN efforts with BTI Systems acquisition
Juniper Networks Inc. is to expand its stake in the software-defined networking space by acquiring Massachusetts-based BTI Systems Inc., which specializes in building cloud and metro networking gear. Juniper announced its intentions yesterday via a blog post from Jonathon Davidson, its executive vice president and general manager of development and innovation. Davidson said the “combination ...
Troubled Toshiba set to go all-in on NAND flash
Troubled Toshiba Corp., is set to exit the peripheral chip-making business and possibly even the disk business too, as it struggles to recover from a $1.3 billion accounting scandal that left the firm reeling financially. The report comes by way of Reuters and Japan’s Nikkei news agency, which says that Toshiba is looking to offload ...
EMC set to suffer as cloud storage spending ramps up
The storage infrastructure industry has proven to be more resistant to change than most IT market segments, but it isn’t invulnerable to the disruptive force known as the cloud. Evidence of this comes via a new report from 451 Research Inc., which says spending on public cloud storage is set to double by this time ...
Wi-Next & IBM bring the Industrial Internet to the factory floor
Industrial Internet “edgeware” provider Wi-Next has scored something of a coup by teaming up with IBM to add its analytics capabilities to its industrial quality control and maintenance systems. The Palo Alto, California-based startup said the addition of IBM’s analytics capabilities, some of which are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), will help consumer product manufacturers ...
U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption
The U.K. government’s chief scientist is urging ministers there to consider adopting Bitcoin’s blockchain technology for use in the private and public sectors, saying it could be used as a more reliable way to deliver services than the current, centralized systems they have in place. The Bitcoin blockchain is the best example of how a ...
China could be about to launch its own digital currency
China is reportedly considering launching its own virtual currency, having clamped down on Bitcoin use in the country. According to a report in The Register, China’s central bank is looking at virtual currencies as a means of exerting more control over the country’s money supply. In addition, it hopes a virtual currency would help cut ...
GPS-equipped vultures lead Peru’s war on trash
Authorities in the Peruvian capital city Lima have a new weapon in their war against illegal waste dumpers. They’ve taken to equipping vultures with GPS tracking devices and, soon, GoPro cameras, in an effort to help officials crack down on the rise in illegal waste dumps in and around the city. So far, ten highly-trained ...
Google pitches Cloud Dataflow to the Apache Software Foundation
Google is making its first major open-source move of the year by offering up its Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as an incubator project. Google is hoping to spur more collaborative efforts and governance around its technology, which is used for writing processing for large-scale data processing jobs. The end goal is ...
Nvidia to power AliCloud’s new Deep Learning and Big Data services
China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited is stepping up its efforts to take on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the cloud with a new multi-billion dollar partnership with Nvidia Corp. that will see the chipmaker’s silicon power its new Big Data and deep learning systems. The plan, reported by the South China Morning Post, ...