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The semiconductor industry is no longer able to keep up with “Moore’s Law” and the theory will be laid to rest, experts say. Moore’s Law was first theorized by the legendary co-founder of Intel Corp., Gordon E Moore, way back in 1965. …
GridGain ignites its In-Memory Data Fabric platform
GridGain Systems Inc. is trying to fix a need for speed with a new update to its in-memory data fabric platform that promises a 2X performance boost. GridGain offers a high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory data fabric based on Apache Ignite that’s …
Iron.io’s Project Kratos promises AWS Lambda without the lock-in
San Francisco-based startup Iron.io, which recently landed $8 million in funding, has just kicked off a project aimed at defeating the specter of cloud vendor lock-in. Called Project Kratos, the initiative will “enable enterprises to run AWS Lambda functionality in any cloud …
AWS buys a very NICE high-performance computing startup
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bolstering its high-performance computing (HPC) efforts with the acquisition of Italian software and services company Nice Software s.r.l. AWS didn’t divulge many details, but chief evangelist Jeff Barr did comment on the reasoning behind the acquisition in a …
Will it? Won’t it? New doubts raised over Dell-EMC takeover
Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion takeover of EMC Corp. is once again, with the New York Post reporting that bankers are having difficulty in raising the necessary cash to fund the acquisition. When the deal was announced last October it looked to be …
Rackspace now hosts Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack on its private cloud
Rackspace Inc. has teamed up with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. to add another Openstack-as-a-Service offering to its lineup. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat is essentially Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform hosted on Rackspace’s private cloud, and sits alongside …
Ignore Wall Street: Tableau’s still the king of Business Intelligence
Stock market analysts trampled all over Tableau Software Inc. this week after the ‘darling of Big Data’ slashed its guidance on next quarter’s earnings. That move caused profit-hungry shareholders to recoil in horror, and resulted in Tableau’s stock losing more than half of its value in …
GitHub thinks BIG with clustering support for large enterprises
Amid the rumblings of discontent over at GitHub, which reportedly stem from internal debates over whether the organization should focus on large businesses instead of smaller developers, it’s just rolled out a number of new features aimed at its biggest users. GitHub …
Cisco beats Wall Street estimates but bemoans stock market jitters
Cisco Systems Ltd. managed to beat analyst’s estimates with better-than-expected second quarter profits and $15 billion in new buybacks that saw its share price rocket in after-hours trading. Cisco reported net income of $3.1 billion for the quarter, equating to $0.62 per …
Report: Enterprises now using an average of six different clouds
Such is the complexity of cloud computing systems that the average user runs applications and carries out experiments on a combination of six different public and private clouds, according to a new survey from Software-as-a-Service provider RightScale Inc. RightScale’s 2016 State of …