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Nutanix Community Edition heads for the cloud
Nutanix Inc. will soon make its Community Edition software available on the the public cloud, according to reports. The Register says Nutanix’s hyperconverged server/storage/networking systems will soon be made available on either Amazon Web Services or Google Compute Platform, though it didn’t specify any sources. Nevertheless, the website correctly asserted that Nutanix would roll out a ...
IBM’s Big Data analytics binge: Spark on Bluemix, Insight Cloud Services & More
Having first announced support for Apache Spark at the Spark Summit this summer, IBM has followed up with the launch of IBM Analytics on Apache Spark, a new Spark-as-a-Service offering available on its Bluemix Cloud. IBM Analytics on Apache Spark, which will be unveiled at the IBM Insight 2015 conference in Las Vegas today, is ...
IBM’s SoftLayer denounced as the world’s “biggest source of spam”
Few tech companies carry greater weight than the IBM brand, which is instantly recognizable as one of the most trusted names in technology and security. But while ‘Big Blue’ might be among the most respectable and fastest-growing vendors in the software security market, the venerable company has just been outed as the world’s biggest source ...
MapR ships new Hadoop distro with Apache Drill 1.2
Hadoop distro maker MapR Technologies Inc. has rolled out a new version of its enterprise Big Data platform featuring the latest release of the open-source Apache Drill, alongside a new Data Exploration Quick Start Solution. Map R is the lead developer of Apache Drill, which is an open-source query engine built for Hadoop that offers ...
Cloud growth boosts Microsoft’s Q1 earnings above estimates
Microsoft posted mixed first quarter earnings for its fiscal year 2016, with revenues of $21.66 billion – a 7. percent year-on-year decline that still exceeded analysts’ estimates. Microsoft also reported net income of $5.38 billion, or $0.67 per share, beating out Wall Street’s estimates of $0.59 per share. Once again, Microsoft looked to emphasize its ...
Trend Micro acquires TippingPoint to solidify its network security solutions
IT security leader Trend Micro Inc. has said it’s to buy Hewlett-Packard Co.’s TippingPoint, a provider of network intrusion prevention systems and related gear, in a $300 million deal. For Trend Micro, it gets its hands on both TippingPoint’s technology and also its huge customers base, while for HP, the deal allows it to wash ...
U.K. gov embraces Libre Office, kicks Microsoft into touch
The U.K. government has made a deal to make the open-source office suite Libre Office available across its public sector, in what seems to be an effort to ween itself off of Microsoft Office. The U.K.’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) said this week that its agreed a deal with a company called Collabora Productivity Ltd., ...
HP to put public cloud out of its misery in Jan 2016 – Updated
Correction: HP is only sunsetting the Public Cloud ONLY not the Helion cloud platform. Hewlett Packard Co. has put an end to the confusion surrounding the future of its HP Helion Public Cloud platform. There isn’t going to be any future, because HP has decided it’s going to shut the platform down on January 31, 2016. ...
Docker acquires Tutum to deliver cross-cloud container management
In an effort to bridge the gap between app development and production deployment, Docker Inc. has acquired Tutum Inc., a two-year-old startup that develops cloud services for deploying and managing distributed apps inside Docker containers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition gives Docker an infrastructure management capability to add it its existing ...
Tableau Vizable delivers Big Data visualizations to the masses
Tableau Software Inc. is looking to broaden its horizons and bring Big Data to the masses with a new product for iOS devices that lets anyone dig into their data and visualize what they’re doing right or wrong. The opportunity is certainly there – while Big Data has become massive in the enterprise, the wider ...