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The global big data market will grow from $18.3 billion in 2014 to a whopping $92.2 billion by 2026, representing a strong compound annual growth rate of 14.4 percent, according to Wikibon’s newly published 2016 – 2026 Worldwide big data Market Forecast. …
Altiscale teams up with Tableau Software to simplify Big Data analysis
Big Data-as-a-Service provider Altiscale Inc. wants to make it easier than ever for its customers to get to grips with their data, and its teaming up with Tableau Software to do just that. The two companies have just announced a strategic partnership …
“Big Red” keeps pace with VMware with Oracle VM 3.4
Oracle has just updated its virtualization software, bringing it up to speed with its more illustrious rivals VMware Inc. and Microsoft. The newly released Oracle VM 3.4 is the first edition of the software to feature storage live migration, something that’s been …
Fortress Google: A sneak peek at Google’s data center security systems
With defensive measures in place like dual authentication systems, vehicle-access barriers, high-resolution cameras, laser beam intrusion detection systems, biometric iris scanners and electronic access cards, you’d think we were describing a “Supermax” prison, or the U.S. Air Force’s notorious Area 51, or …
Galactic Exchange can get your Hadoop cluster up and running in just 5 minutes
Stealthy startup Galactic Exchange Inc. burst out of the shadows this weekend touting a new product that’s able to spin up an Hadoop or Spark cluster, ready to go, in just five minutes. By doing so, it eliminates much of the complexity …
Microsoft touts “Holoportation” with HoloLens for remote meet ups
Microsoft’s research division has developed a new kind of 3D video capture system it’s calling “holoportation”, which allows people to be ‘rendered’ in 3D inside any environment. You can think of it as a kind of inverse “holodeck”, as seen in the …
Dell close to finalizing $3.5bn sale of IT Services unit to Japan’s NTT
It’s being reported that Dell Inc. is set to announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Corp. for $3.5 billion later today, finalizing a process that began late last year. Dell wants to sell off the …
Native Docker app lands on Windows & Mac
Being a native application, Docker containers have always been dead easy to get up and running on Linux systems. But that wasn’t the case for Windows and OS X users, until today. Now, Docker Inc. is making things easier for users of …
Microsoft wants to finance Yahoo’s takeover to the tune of $1Bn
Yahoo Inc.’s proposed sale has been a long, drawn out affair, but fresh funds from Microsoft may help to accelerate things. According to a report in Re/Code, Microsoft executives are said to be meeting with a number of private equity firms to …
Now you can take a 360-degree virtual tour of Google’s data center
Google’s data centers are among the biggest, most complicated, and sophisticated in the world. But they’re also among the most secure, which means only a few select Google employees ever get a chance to see them up close. Until now. As of …