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Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support
Typesafe Inc., the company co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, has announced full commercial support for the Apache Spark Big data processing engine. The move was announced at the Spark Summit Europe event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, last week, and underlines how Apache Spark has effectively become the default in-memory approach to ...
Rackspace offers up Carina containers-as-a-service in beta
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Inc. is now offering containers-as-a-service through in beta through its newly announced Carina service. Carina is a hosted Docker-based container service that’s currently only available to customers in the U.S. It provides a fully managed implementation of Docker containers, which Rackspace describes as an “instant-on solution that means customers don’t have ...
Amazon, Google & Wal-Mart to work with FAA on drone regs
Delivery drone wannabees Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. have signed on to a government task force headed up by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help devise an identification and registration system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All three companies have thrown their weight behind drone development, and will formulate their recommendations for ...
How the “Big Three” cloud vendors plan to differentiate their services
Last week saw Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft all reported stunning growth in their respective cloud computing segments. The numbers underline what IT watchers have known for some time already – that there’s an almost insatiable appetite for the public cloud among developers – and each of the “Big Three” providers took the opportunity ...
Report: IT staff are the biggest threat to IT security
The biggest risk to IT security isn’t posed by malware or hackers or even the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on your infrastructure. Rather, the most immediate danger lies much closer to home, with your IT staff posing the most imminent threat, according to a report on ‘insider threats’ commissioned by cloud services firm Intermedia, ...
IBM in advanced talks to acquire The Weather Co.’s digital assets for $2B
IBM is said to be close to acquiring the digital and data assets of The Weather Company, with talks said to be at an advanced stage, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper cites the usual “people familiar with the situation” in its report, and says the $2 billion deal could be announced later ...
Walmart applies to test delivery drones to compete with Amazon
Retail giant Walmart Stores Inc. is jumping on the drones bandwagon, with an application to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to let it begin testing drones in U.S. airspace. The end goal, according to Reuters, is to deliver its products to customers by drone just like rival retailer Amazon.com Inc. has already proposed. At present ...
Enterprise applications are “too complex” claims new study
The complexity of enterprise applications and their underlying infrastructure leads some employees to use simpler, consumer applications instead of approved company tools to complete some critical tasks, a new study has found. The takeaway comes from a new whitepaper by Capriza Inc., an enterprise mobility vendor whose “modernization platform” aims to reduce the complexity of ...
Ex-VMware CTO Ben Fathi joins CloudFlare
VMware Inc.’s ex-chief technology officer Ben Fathi is back at work barely two months after leaving his old job, having joined up with CloudFlare Inc. as its new head of engineering. Fathi outlined his reasons for joining up with his new employer on CloudFlare’s blog, admitting that some people might be scratching their heads considering ...
Under pressure: Might Marissa Mayer jump ship too?
A number of recent high-level executive departures at Yahoo! Inc. suggests that company’s turnaround under CEO Marissa Mayer is rapidly losing momentum, little more than three years after she took over the reins. The most recent names to abandon ship were corporate development head Jackie Reses, who is taking up a role at financial services ...