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Cloudera offers ‘hands-on’ training with Apache Spark
Cloudera Inc. last week said it’s going to spearhead efforts to replace MapReduce with Apache Spark as the data processing engine of choice in Hadoop, and now it’s announced an expansion of its Spark training programs to help make that happen. Cloudera is now offering a choice of comprehensive, hands-on Spark education courses aimed at ...
Federal government’s “cloud first” policy saves $3.6B in four years
Federal agencies accumulated IT cost savings of $3.6 billion between 2011 and 2014 through data center consolidation and migrating to the cloud, according to a new report by a government watchdog. The federal government began an initiative to cut IT spending in 2010. The plan called for federal agencies to shift workloads to the cloud ...
Oracle beats analyst estimates in Q1 despite license revenues slump
Oracle has just posted its first quarter financial results, and although it beat expectations with profits and revenues slightly higher than analyst estimates, the figures will do little to ease shareholder’s fears about the company’s future prospects for growth. On Wednesday, Oracle announced first quarter revenues of $8.4 billion, two percent down from the same ...
The Washington Post & Google wage war on adblockers
Google and The Washington Post have declared war on adblocking software by effectively holding people hostage in an effort to get them to switch it off. Last week, Google made a move against those who use filters to block the pre-video ads that are commonly seen on YouTube. The search engine giant turned the tables ...
HP Enterprise & HP Inc. to kick off by axing thousands of jobs
Hewlett-Packard Co. will lay off around 30,000 of its employees once it’s long-awaited split takes place in around six weeks time. The troubled tech giant told analysts this week that the bulk of the cuts will be made from HP Enterprise, the half that will focus on selling software and services to big businesses. However, ...
Tableau 9.1 release brings Big Data to the mobile masses
Tableau Software Inc. has just announced the release into general availability of its updated business intelligence offering, Tableau 9.1. The newly updated solution is designed to make it simpler than ever for users to analyze data – regardless of the source – using any kind of device. Tableau 9.1 comes with a bunch of enhanced ...
Nexenta moves to integrate software-defined storage with Docker containers
Open-source software-defined storage vendor Nexenta Systems Inc. has outlined a vision of how it intends to add support for Docker containers to its technology. For starters, Nextenta is partnering with ClusterHQ to support its container data management software Flocker. In addition, Nexenta is also adding support for VMware Inc.’s vSphere Integrated Containers, which allow containers ...
Qualcomm buys Capsule Technologie to boost Internet of Medical Things push
Qualcomm Inc., which is best known for making the semiconductor chips found in smartphones, has acquired a French clinical data company called Capsule Technologie Inc. for an undisclosed fee. Qualcomm said the plan is for Capsule to be absorbed into its subsidiary Qualcomm Life, an entity that’s focused on selling remote monitoring technology to hospitals. ...
Traders settle newswire hacking case with $30M payment
Two of the 32 parties charged with trading on information stolen from hacked newswire services have agreed to settle for $30 million with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC says that Ukraine-based Jaspen Capital Partners Ltd., and its CEO Andriy Suprananok illegally profited from investments they made based on stolen press releases obtained ...
Russia says Google broke its anti-trust laws
Google is bracing itself for legal action in Russia after that country’s anti-monopoly watchdog found it guilty of abusing its online market dominance. According to Bloomberg, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) says Google has been found guilty after a probe that resulted from a complaint by rival search firm Yandex LLC. Yandex, which is ...