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Gartner urges enterprises to forget about Windows 8.1
Gartner’s analysts have surprised no one with the recommendation that enterprises forgo upgrading to Windows 8.1 and instead migrate directly to Windows 10. Steve Kleynhans, a Gartner analyst, told Computerworld that Windows 8.1 will likely go the same way as Windows Vista, with industry support dying off at a rapid rate. As such, even those ...
Cloud giants turn to SDN as traditional networks lag behind
Traditional networking gear just can’t keep up with the demands of today’s modern data center. At least that was the message delivered from executives of both Google and Microsoft at this week’s Open Network Summit. The problem is that the traditional network switches and controllers built by companies like Cisco Systems Inc. just don’t have ...
Oracle misses analysts expectations, blames strong dollar
Oracle is the latest in a long line of struggling tech firms to point the finger of blame at the strength of the U.S. dollar, following a poor quarterly earnings report that missed analysts expectations. Oracle announced its results on Wednesday, reporting adjusted earnings of 78 cents on revenues of $10.71 billion. But Wall Street ...
AWS adds support for Apache Spark on EMR
The Apache Spark open-source distributed processing engine for Big Data workloads is coming to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud giant has just updated its EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service to handle Spark applications, meaning enterprises can now use the popular processing engine without needing to build their own infrastructure first. Spark joins other applications in ...
Syncsort | Dell reference architecture to accelerate Hadoop ETL
Big Data integration software provider Syncsort Inc. is teaming up with Dell Inc. and Cloudera Inc. in a bid to make Hadoop easier for enterprises to get up and running. Syncsort and Dell have introduced a new reference architecture that will, among other things, help businesses improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and leverage advanced analytics ...
Cloudera hires Google exec to lead its Hadoop development team
Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. has made an interesting hire in the shape of Daniel Sturman, an 8-year Google exec who was most recently a VP of Engineering at the Internet giant. Sturman joined Cloudera as its new VP of Engineering on Monday, and according to a press release will “lead all development within the company, ...
SAP HANA expands its reach into Big Data analytics and the IoT
SAP SE has rolled out an updated version of its flagship HANA in-memory database and application platform this week, with the emphasis on Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). Released yesterday, SAP said HANA service pack 10 brings more functionality to the edge of the network, an area that’s increasingly seeing more ...
Mesosphere sets Spark flying on its Data Center Operating System
Mesosphere Inc. is partnering with Typesafe Inc. to provide support for an instance of Apache Spark that can be run atop of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) on the Amazon Web Services cloud. The integration makes it much easier to deploy Spark in-memory computing clusters in production environments, the company’s said. Matt Trifiro, ...
Google improves Sheet’s analytics, visualization features
Google is adding new visualization and analytical tools to its Sheets software to help business users to better understand the data on their spreadsheets. In its latest effort to bring Big Data analytics capabilities to the masses, Google has announced a new tool that allows users to preview formula results instantly, even as users are ...
Deutsche Telekom teams up with Huawei to target Amazon in Europe
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom is looking to muscle in on Amazon turf in Europe, where it’s ramping up its cloud business by expanding its partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The telecoms firm said that by linking with Huawei it would be able to double its business cloud revenues to $2 billion by 2018, becoming ...