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You might be ready for IoT, but your network isn’t
Enterprises are willing to embrace the Internet of Things, but deployment is being held back by network capacity worries and security concerns, according to a new survey from Infoblox. While most IT professionals believe there’s a potentially lucrative market in IoT, the big worry is that organizations lack the network capacity to deal with demand ...
CoreOS takes the fight to Red Hat with Managed Linux
CoreOS, one of the youngest new distros in the Linux family that relies on Docker containers to manage both the system and applications, has announced $8 million in series A funding. At the same time, it’s also launched a new subscription version of its product – nudging it ever closer into Red Hat’s territory. CoreOS ...
Gartner predicts IT spending to grow, but only just
Enterprises are spending a less than anticipated amount of money on IT, according to the latest tidbit from Gartner. The analyst firm blames price pressure due to increased competition, a lack of product differentiation, and widespread availability of viable alternatives as the biggest cause of reduced spending in 2014. What this means is that global ...
Google targets ‘the next billion’ with Android One
Google has launched an initiative designed to make smartphones more affordable to develop and produce. The initiative will target OEMs specifically making phones for developing markets, which could help increase Android’s already dominant consumer market share even further. While smartphones are fairly commonplace in the US, the opposite holds true in developing nations, where most ...
Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers
Instagram announced last week that it’s picked up its billions of images stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and dumped them into Facebook’s own servers in one of the largest data migration operations ever undertaken. News of the move came from this interview with Facebook infrastructure engineer and Open Compute Foundation program developer Charlie Manese. ...
NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud
The NSA has published its first ever “transparency report”, and surprise, surprise – it’s anything but ‘transparent’. The report supposedly reveals the number of ‘targets’ the agency has spied upon, although the NSA’s confusing definition of the word “transparency” makes it somewhat difficult to understand the data it provides. “Within the Intelligence Community, the term ...
Gartner: Let’s get ready for ‘digital business,’ especially you security pros
IT security professionals need to ready themselves for the coming “digital business” revolution and a new breed of security implications that it’s sure to bring, said Gartner analyst Jorge Lopez at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit yesterday. Gartner defines digital business as “the creation of new business designs by blurring the digital and physical ...
Hortonworks lights up Hadoop: Apache Spark declared YARN-ready
Hortonworks said Apache Spark, a new technology that’s quickly gaining interest for in-memory-accelerated machine learning and other forms of high-volume data analysis, is now enabled to plug into Apache YARN, the resource-management layer introduced last year with Apache Hadoop 2.0. Apache Spark is high-speed engine for large-scale data processing that was released as version 1.0.0 ...
Couchbase raises $60M as investors double down on NoSQL
There’s more news on the NoSQL front, with industry leader Couchbase pulling in a healthy $60 million of Silicon Valley cash as it bids to muscle in on the territory of legacy giants like Oracle and IBM. The funding round, which was led by WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund, is a big bet by venture ...
Aerospike bids to accelerate growth with new funding, open source plan
With a fresh new $20 million funding round in its pocket a new distribution strategy built on open source licensing, database startup Aerospike is bidding to become a major player in a market segment that some people believe will be the future of enterprise database management. Aerospike makes a NoSQL, flash-optimized in-memory database that the ...
