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Dialog Semiconductor to acquire rival Atmel in $4.6B deal
Dialog Semiconductor Plc, a U.K.-based, German-owned chip maker whose technology powers Apple’s iPhones and iPads, has said it will acquire rival U.S. semiconductor firm Atmel Corp. in a deal valued at $4.6 billion, according to Bloomberg. Dialog, which also sells chips to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and is therefore heavily dependent on the smartphone and ...
Docker expands its toolset as container adoption gathers pace
Container technology continues to gather pace in the enterprise. Docker, the company at the forefront of the Linux container movement, last week announced a major update to the Docker Hub service that aims to automate developer’s workflows and claimed its technology was seeing significant adoption. Alongside this, workload management specialist Univa Corp. has incorporated Docker ...
Microsoft’s built a Linux-based OS to implement software-defined networking
Satya Nadella’s ‘new’ Microsoft has done something the ‘old’ Microsoft would never do. It’s firmly embraced the concept of software-defined networking (SDN) by building a data center network operating system based on Linux. Microsoft belives that doing so gives it much greater control over its network management software than what networking companies can offer. Just ...
Arcadia Data brings visual intelligence to Hadoop
Hadoop is maturing rapidly in the enterprise, with a new survey sponsored by AtScale Inc. revealing almost half of all organizations which have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes are realizing “tangible value” from their deployments. But getting Hadoop up and running isn’t easy, as Gartner Inc.’s 2015 Hadoop Adoption Study noted. One of ...
SAP boss Bill McDermott lost an eye, almost died in freak accident
Bill McDermott, CEO of German enterprise software giant SAP SE, has lost an eye after falling onto a glass tumbler in a freak accident that almost claimed his life, it’s been revealed. The accident happened last July, but the story has only emerged this week. According to reports, McDermott’s extremely unfortunate mishap occurred as he ...
AtScale’s Hadoop Maturity Survey highlights Big Data’s relentless growth
Hadoop has well and truly passed the hype cycle and is now delivering tangible value to the almost half of all organizations that have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes, according to a comprehensive new survey on the state of the Big Data framework’s maturity. The 2015 Hadoop Maturity Survey, conducted by AtScale Inc., ...
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 ...