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Piping hot: Why is Apache Kafka catching on?
Having been thrust into the spotlight by IBM last week, Apache Kafka is getting so much attention that it’s threatening to surpass Apache Spark as Big Data’s tech du jour and become a permanent fixture in the Hadoop landscape. Kafka is described as an open-source, high-throughput publish and subscribe messaging system for managing real-time streams ...
Cisco and Ericsson partner up because acquisitions “take too long”
Cisco Systems Ltd. announced what could be a critical new partnership with Ericsson AB to work together on building the “networks of the future”. The two firms said the partnership, which encompasses a global service partner agreement and a broad reseller agreement, would “offer leadership across network network architectures for fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems, cloud ...
Rackspace is rising: Beats Q3 earnings & revenue guidance
Rackspace Inc. posted its third quarter earnings after the whistle on Monday, blowing past analysts’ expectations with $509 million in revenues, a 10.7 percent increase from one year ago. The company’s net income was $37 million, or $0.26 per share. Wall Street’s experts were expecting revenues of $503.08 million and earnings of just $0.20 per ...
Teradata’s torment continues in Q3 as revenues decline again
Big Data vendor Teradata Corp. has chalked up another disappointing financial quarter, and has said it’s taking drastic action to rectify the situation by getting out of the business for marketing applications. The company’s revenues fell again, with the $606 million it raked in over the third quarter representing a nine percent decrease from the ...
Google intros TensorFlow, a machine learning system for everyone
Google has long been considered a leader in the field of machine learning, and now it’s hoping to share some of its expertise. The Web giant has just open-sourced a new machine learning system called TensorFlow that can do everything from finding matching images of your pet kitten to distinguishing your speech in a busy ...
Prison officials want your help to stop drones delivering drugs
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has asked the public for ideas to help them stop contraband-laden drones from flying drugs into prisons. While legal drone deliveries won’t take off until next year at the earliest, contraband smugglers have been using quadcopters to fly drugs and other contraband into prisons for some time already. It’s ...
Docker 1.9 intros a fix for container networking headaches
Docker Inc. rolled out Docker version 1.9 last week with a major fix that makes containers a lot more ‘network aware’ than they ever were. One of the biggest problems for Docker users was they had few options when connecting one container to another. To do so, developers had to lay out explicit connections at ...
Microsoft readies its next major Windows 10 Fall Update release
Microsoft is on the verge of issuing its first major update to Windows 10. Officially called the Windows 10 Fall Update, the upgrade adds new functionality and a number of bug fixes to the operating system. The final test build of the updated OS, number 10586, was rolled out to Windows Insiders late last week, ...
Tech giants bet on Swagger in new Open API Initiative
We never stop hearing about how APIs are facilitating the development of all kinds of weird and wonderful apps, and now the Linux Foundation is jumping on the bandwagon with the launch of the Open API Initiative (OAI) to promote a common, open API standard. The initiative, which is backed by names like Google, IBM, ...
Microsoft teases its Windows Store for Business
Almost a year after it first unveiled plans for a dedicated business app store, Microsoft is prepping the release of its Windows Store for Business for Windows 10. The Redmond-based firm will first introduce the store to those who’ve signed up for its Windows Insider program, but there’s no concrete release date yet. Microsoft provides ...