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BitTorrent trackers ‘ban’ Windows 10, and Russia could be next
Windows 10 might have been downloaded more than 50 million times already, but it’s been far less well received by certain sections of the online community. At least, not by those who value their privacy anyhow. Last week, a number of well known BitTorrent trackers quietly banned Windows 10 due to privacy concerns surrounding the ...
Oracle swoops on Maxymiser to boost its Marketing Cloud
Enterprise giant Oracle Corp. has made a new acquisition in the shape of Maxymiser, which offers cloud-based software for marketers to test, target and personalize what customers see on web pages, for an undisclosed fee. Specifically, Maxymiser offers what’s called multivariate and A/B testing, which allows companies to try out different versions of a Web ...
MapR’s Hadoop platform lands on AWS cloud
MapR Technologies Inc. has just made its Hadoop distribution available on Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. With the availability of MapR on AWS, enterprises now have another quick and easy option for running their Big Data products on the AWS cloud. MapR’s solution offers a path to a cloud platform that delivers continuous, ...
HP revenues slump in final earnings call before splitting up
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced profits that fell short of estimates in its fiscal third quarter earnings report, the last the company will make before it splits into two. CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday that she “was pleased” with the company’s performance during the quarter, even though nearly every reporting segment was down annually. HP said ...
CoreOS adds Intel hardware support to Rocket containers
CoreOS Inc.’s Rocket container runtime recently emerged from nowhere to become the biggest rival to Docker Inc.’s better known container technology, and in spite of a new initiative to create a common body of standards for software containers, the former upstart isn’t about to take its foot off the pedal any time soon. At LinuxCon ...
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 ...