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Lightning strike wipes out data in Google’s Belgium facility
Google has admitted that some of its users have lost data stored in its cloud following a lightning strike on one of its European data centers last month. Google’s facility in St. Ghislain, Belgium, was hit by no less than four lightning strikes between August 13 and August 17, causing errors on its Compute Engine’s ...
Microsoft ships out containers in Windows Server 2016 Preview
Microsoft has released the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 to beta testers, and for the first time the software comes with Windows Server Containers. The release doesn’t put Windows Server Containers as a rival to Docker containers though, but instead positions it as a complementary technology. “Windows Server Containers are now part of ...
#VMworld 2015 preview: Time to go on the attack?
Once viewed as the disruptive darling of the data center, VMware Inc. is sitting at a major crossroads as it finds itself under attack on multiple fronts. The company built its empire by cornering the market for hypervisor x86 virtualization, and many an enterprise was happy to pay handsomely to reap the benefits of premium performance ...
LinkedIn open-sources its Groovy Gradle plugin for Hadoop
Hadoop has gotten itself another big-name contributor in the shape of business-oriented social network LinkedIn Corp., which has just made the LinkedIn Gradle Plugin for Apache Hadoop available on GitHub. LinkedIn’s Gradle plugin was designed by the company to help it manage Hadoop jobs running on multiple frameworks, and its engineers have used it regularly ...
Seagate acquires Dot Hill Systems to fuel its cloud storage efforts
Storage systems maker Seagate Technology PLC has swooped to acquire Dot Hill Systems Corp. a maker of scalable SAN systems and virtualization software, in a $694 million all-cash deal. Dot Hill Systems should prove to be a useful addition to Seagate’s portfolio, what with the myriad of enterprise grade storage arrays, software and data protection ...
Broadcom shareholders move to block Avago takeover
Stakeholders of the networking chip maker Broadcom Corp. are apparently unhappy with the company’s decision to sell itself to rival chip maker Avago Technologies Inc. in a $37 billion deal, and have made their displeasure known by launching a class action lawsuit aimed at blocking the sale. The merger between the two companies was announced ...
Executive shakeup at EMC as three top execs jump ship
Storage giant EMC Corp. has lost not one, not two, but three executives this week, in a reshuffle that suggests there may be some big tensions in the company’s management as it battles to keep its Federation together. The biggest name of the three is undoubtedly Jeetu Patel, formerly the CEO of sync ‘n share ...
MongoDB adds support for IBM’s LinuxONE mainframes
NoSQL database leader MongoDB Inc. has expanded its partnership with IBM by adding support for Big Blue’s new IBM z Systems mainframe computers. IBM launched LinuxONE, a new generation of hardware, software and services solutions based on the z Systems mainframe yesterday, a portfolio that’s designed as a platform for enterprise-grade Linux applications. According to ...
PLUMgrid teams up with Linux Foundation to head open network virtualization project
The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid Inc. are heading up a new alliance of distribution vendors and hardware manufacturers that aim to accelerate Linux networking and virtualization in the modern data center. Called the IO Visor project, the aim is to build a neutral forum that will work together to develop an open, programmable data plane ...
Salesforce adds drag-and-drop eCommerce buttons to its Community Cloud
Salesforce.com, Inc. has added eCommerce functions to its Community Cloud via drag-and-drop Lightning Components, making it possible to display a “Buy Button” on any of its online communities. Salesforce’s Community Cloud is a platform that allows businesses to build websites where they can easily interact with their customers. With the addition of eCommerce functionality, Salesforce ...