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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 ...
EMC/VMware spin out Virtustream as new Cloud Services Business
EMC Corp.’s and VMware Inc.’s cloud computing efforts are to be reorganized into a new business unit that combines units from both with those of Virtustream, the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this year. The new venture will operate under the Virtustream banner, with Virtustream CEO ...
Oracle offers up new OpenStack release as Docker instances
Oracle has updated its Oracle OpenStack platform, almost a year to the day after it first released its own flavor of the open-source cloud-building fabric. The new release, called Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux Release 2, has been updated with containers in mind. Specifically, the new release has been made available packaged entirely as Docker ...