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Azul launches “health check” for Apache Cassandra deployments
Azul Systems, Inc., has just released a new tool to help enterprises optimize their Apache Cassandra deployments on the fly. Azul is a developer of runtime platforms for executing Java-based applications, and Cassandra HealthCheck (Cassandra HC) has been designed to help eliminate Java-related barriers and improve Cassandra’s runtime consistency, reliability and up-time. Apache Cassandra is ...
Wikibon CTO urges caution over 3D XPoint memory tech
Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc., set the IT world abuzz this week when they unveiled their new 3D XPoint memory tech that offers up to 1,000 times the performance and endurance of regular NAND flash. The companies are touting 3D XPoint as a “breakthrough in technology”, but big question marks remain over its ability to ...
ElasticHosts launches Spring.io, a pay-as-you-go cloud container service
Cloud hosting provider ElasticHosts Ltd. has lifted the lid off of Springs.io, a container-based cloud infrastructure service that offers “elastic capacity scaling” with pay-per-use billing. The company claims the service is priced lower than the equivalent virtualization-based cloud services offered by companies like Amazon Web Services. Springs.io is based on ElasticHosts’s container tech, which scales ...
Google Glass 2.0: Back to work in the enterprise?
It’s probably unfair to say that Google Glass flopped as a consumer product, but for a number of reasons Google deemed that its wearable technology wasn’t quite ready for the masses. Even so, Google Glass did go down a whole lot better in the enterprise sector, and now that’s where the next edition of the ...
Cloudera partners with EMC to offer “Cloudera-on-Isilon” solution
Hadoop heavyweight Cloudera Inc. has just signed on with EMC Corp.’s Technology Connect partner program, which means that EMC customers can now license Cloudera Enterprise directly from the storage giant and its reseller partners. The move means that EMC customers now have a direct path to implement an “in-place” approach to data analytics, avoiding the ...
How many “cloud giants” are there anyway?
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google are blazing a trail as the “Big Four” leaders in cloud infrastructure services, seizing control of over half the market, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. The research outfit compiled second quarter earnings data that suggests the big four have boosted their dominance of ...
Sri Lanka to get blanket Web access via Google’s Project Loon
Sri Lanka is all set to receive blanket Internet coverage throughout the country after it penned a deal with Google to deploy its Project Loon across its territory. On Wednesday, Sri Lanka said it would become the first country in the world to provide a universal Internet service for its citizens through the deal with ...
Intel & Micron unleash 3D XPoint, a new class of memory tech
Silicon chip giants Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. have unveiled a totally new kind of memory technology called 3D Xpoint that they say offers up to 1,000 times the performance and endurance of regular NAND flash. The two partners are so excited that Rob Cooke, a Senior VP at Intel charge of non-volatile memory, ...
Amazon proposes dedicated airspace for commercial drones
Far from being a joke, or some astute marketing ploy, Amazon.com Inc. is deadly serious about its audacious plan to create “delivery drones”, and has drafted new proposals to regulate commercial UAVs in the U.S. According to The Guardian, the company has suggested that U.S. officials designate a 200-foot high stretch of airspace especially for ...
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 10 bugs ahead of launch
With less than two days to go before Windows 10 is launched, it looks like Microsoft is scrambling to iron out numerous bugs in its eagerly anticipated operating system. Although Build 10240, released two weeks ago, was widely believed to “release to manufacturing” (RTM) build of Windows 10, Computerworld‘s Gregg Keizer reports that Microsoft has ...