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Rackspace is now a fanatical supporter of AWS | #AWSreinvent
Fanatical support specialist Rackspace Inc. has confirmed rumors that first emerged last week, announcing it will now sell and support Amazon Web Services’ cloud, in a similar deal to what it previously inked with Microsoft. On Tuesday at AWS re:Invent, Rackspace launched Fanatical Support for AWS, beginning with U.S.-based customers. Non-U.S. customers will have to ...
IDC: The enterprise is throwing money at the cloud
International Data Corp. (IDC) has gone out on a limb with the prediction that cloud IT infrastructure will account for a third of all enterprise IT infrastructure spending this year. IDC’s latest survey estimates that total worldwide spending on cloud IT infrastructure – which includes servers, storage and Ethernet switches – will top $32.6 billion ...
Basho revs up Riak TS for the Internet of Things
Basho Technologies Inc., the company behind the development of the popular Riak NoSQL database, has just released a version designed explicitly for the Internet of Things. Called Riak TS, or “Riak Time Series”, the database now stands alongside Riak S2, the cloud large-object store, and Riak KV, the key-value store, as storage options at the ...
Amazon to launch analytics service, super-fast database at AWS re:Invent?
Amazon Web Services is rumored to be announcing two major new product launches at its AWS re:Invent conference later today, including a new data analytics service and a “super-fast” database, according to reports. Analytics on AWS The Wall Street Journal claims that AWS’s business intelligence tool, called “Space Needle”, will allow IT teams to copy ...
Elliott gives EMC 3 week deadline over Federation break-up
The activist investor that’s been manipulating things behind the scenes at EMC Corp. has given the company until the end of this month to decide if it’ll give into its demands to sell off VMware Inc. as a way of maximizing shareholder value. In what appears to be a leak from Elliott Management Inc. to ...
AWS adds Elasticsearch to its growing cloud service roster
Amazon Web Services last week introduced Elasticsearch (Amazon ES) on the AWS cloud. The service adds yet another NoSQL-based Big Data analytics option to its ever-expanding roster of cloud services. Elasticsearch is an open-source framework based on Java that’s designed to search through text-based documents at massive scale. The service uses native Java and RESTful ...
Hortonworks Big Data Scorecard paves the way for Hadoop
Hortonworks Inc., wants to make it easier for organizations to become data-driven by showing them how they can put Hadoop to the best possible use. To that end, the company has unveiled a new “Big Data Scorecard” for organizations to fill in. By doing so, it helps Hortonworks to generate a customized whitepaper for the ...
Google, Microsoft sign peace deal in patent dispute
Google and Microsoft have called a truce in their long-running patent disputes, agreeing to drop all legal cases against one another. The two tech giants inked a secret settlement late last month, although the terms of the agreement have not been disclosed. “Microsoft and Google are pleased to announce an agreement on patent issues,” is ...
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch files $160m counter-lawsuit against HP
Mike Lynch, the founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation PLC, now known as HP Autonomy, has launched a legal challenge against Hewlett-Packard Co. seeking $150 million in damages over allegations that he somehow concocted Autonomy’s accounts to inflate the firm’s value. HP famously paid a whopping $10.7 billion to acquire Autonomy in the summer of ...
IBM’s Bluemix Local enables app development across on-premise, public & private clouds
IBM stayed up late last night to announce a new service called Bluemix Local that lets app builders work across hybrid clouds (public and private clouds plus on-premise data centers). IBM’s Bluemix development platform was already available on both public and private hosted clouds, but today’s announcement delivers true hybrid cloud app development capabilities, allowing ...