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Oracle slams Google, says its “destroyed” market for Java
Oracle Corp. has hit out at Google and claimed that its Android operating system is “destroying” the market for its Java software, and potentially losing it millions in lost revenues from mobile devices. The claims come as part of an amendment to Oracle’s long running lawsuit against Google, in which it claims the search giant’s ...
Report: Configuration problems leaking Big Data all over the Web
Misconfigured installations of enterprise technologies have caused more than a petabyte of data to be exposed online, according to a new report from BinaryEdge. The Switzerland-based security engineering firm probed four popular enterprise technologies in its study, namely Redis, MongoDB, Memcache, and Elasticsearch, and found that configuration problems had led to numerous glaring weaknesses in ...
Rackspace reveals plan to piggy-back on AWS’ success
Having all but thrown in the towel in its public cloud fight against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Inc. says its now building a managed services product for its arch rival’s platform. Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes announced the plan at the company’s second-quarter earnings call, saying he expects to roll out managed AWS services later ...
Google adds Cloud Dataflow & Pub/Sub to its Big Data suite
Google has made two of its Big Data tools generally available, adding a new data analysis framework and real-time data stream management service to its cloud portfolio. These include Google Cloud Dataflow, which offers a framework for merging data from different sources into one data processing pipeline, and theoretically do much the same job as ...
Foreign firms urged to revise their budgets ahead of IT price hikes
CIOs of foreign companies are being advised to reasses their technology product budgets in light of the continuing strength of the U.S. dollar in relation to other currencies. The warning comes in a new report from Gartner Inc., which notes that currencies including the Euro, Japanese Yen and Brazilian Real have all lost at least 20 ...
Link controversy threatens to shoot down Jet.com
Jet.com, Inc’s dreams of surpassing Amazon.com, Inc.’s as the world’s number one eCommerce platform could be in ruin, just weeks after its official launch. The startup, which is backed by $220 million in venture capital funds, has found itself in hot water after being accused of placing affiliate links to hundreds of sites without permission. ...
Buggy Windows 10 update causing endless cycle of reboots
Microsoft has borked a major update for Windows 10 that’s reportedly bricking some people’s PCs. The KB3081424 update, described by Microsoft as a “cumulative” update, is supposed to incorporate all previous bug fixes that have been rolled out for Windows 10 since its release. The only problem is that KB3081424 apparently comes with its own ...
Infor acquires GT Nexus to beef up its cloud platform
Business software provider Infor Inc. has swooped to acquire cloud-agnostic manufacturing software maker GT Nexus in a $675 million deal. Based in Oakland, California, GT Nexus is a provider of cloud-based trade and logistics software that deals with the logistics of production and shipping. Infor said the deal, which will be the largest in its ...
Talena promises “universal data availability” on Hadoop
Big Data availability management startup Talena Inc. has emerged from stealth on the back of a $12 million funding round, which will be used to advance its application recovery and data management solutions. The round was led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Intel Capital, ONSET Ventures and Wipro Ventures, and will see Canaan’s Deepak ...
EMC adds Hortonworks to Technology Connect partner program
Just days after Cloudera Inc. joined EMC Corp.’s Technology Connect partner program, its arch-rival Hortonworks Inc. has also signed up as a select partner, creating a vital new sales channel for its Hadoop distribution. Like the Cloudera arrangement, the deal means that EMC can now resell – either directly or through its channel partners – ...