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Mike Lynch, the founder and CEO of Autonomy Corporation PLC, now known as HP Autonomy, has launched a legal challenge against Hewlett-Packard Co. seeking $150 million in damages over allegations that he somehow concocted Autonomy’s accounts to inflate the firm’s value. HP …
IBM’s Bluemix Local enables app development across on-premise, public & private clouds
IBM stayed up late last night to announce a new service called Bluemix Local that lets app builders work across hybrid clouds (public and private clouds plus on-premise data centers). IBM’s Bluemix development platform was already available on both public and private …
The Linux Foundation claims open-source code is worth $5 billion
Ever wondered how much open-source software is really worth? Well, the Linux Foundation has just attempted to answer it as best as it can in a new report that looks at the development costs of Linux-based collaborative projects. It’s challenging to put …
Rackspace expected to announce support for AWS next week
Cloud support specialist Rackspace Inc. is rumored to be getting into bed with Amazon Web Services, so it can lend its expertise to customers wishing to shunt their data centers into the AWS cloud. The Wall Street Journal says the partnership will …
Pepperdata spices up visibility into Hadoop usage across departments
While the skils shortage is often cited as being one of the biggest obstacles in the way of Hadoop’s widespread enterprise adoption, there are numerous other challenges that must also be overcome. Some of these include being able to support multiple users …
Got Big Data, but will it blend? Pentaho says it can
Pentaho Corp. has released the first major update to its Big Data platform since it was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems back in February, with the goal of helping users to blend their data and manage the analytics pipeline more efficiently. Pentaho …
The Open Data Platform rebrands as ODPi under the Linux Foundation
The members of the controversial Open Data Platform for Hadoop initiative have formally moved the project under the Linux Foundation, in a move that will further irritate those who’re opposed to it. In addition, the group has also announced a fresh batch …
Holberton School tackles software skills shortage with hands-on learning
The dearth of capable software and systems engineers is getting so great that a group of industry veterans have taken it upon themselves to tackle the problem, establishing a new “hands-on” school to train budding full stack software engineers in the latest …
Rackspace gets fanatical with new managed security offering
Rackspace Inc., which has carved out a niche for itself as a provider of “fanatical support” for all manner of cloud services, is now getting into the security and compliance game with a new managed offering for small and medium-sized enterprises. The …
Pivotal open-sources Apache HAWQ & Apache MADlib
Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its HAWQ SQL engine for Hadoop, and it’s also done the same for its MADlib machine learning technology. As of today, the development of both HAWQ …