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HP’s Hilf backtracks: We’re not quitting the public cloud
Just days after Hewlett-Packard Co’s Bill Hilf hinted that the company was giving up the fight in the public cloud, the executive has gone and back-tracked, saying HP will continue to offer its OpenStack-based Helion cloud product for the forseeable future. Hilf, Senior vice president of Helion Product Management, clarified that his earlier comments were ...
Pivotal open-sources GemFire in-memory database under Project Geode
Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on an earlier promise to open-source some of its Big Data software, releasing the source code behind the GemFire, one of the integral parts of its Big Data Suite Hadoop product. Released under the name Project Geode, Pivotal said its decision means customers will have more insight into what ...
Hortonworks-Pivotal alliance bears fruit with updated Apache Ambari
The new tie-up between Hortonworks Inc. and Pivotal Labs, cemented with their recent founding of the Open Data Platform (ODP), is showing signs of bearing fruit with the release of the Apache Ambari 2.0 management component for Hadoop. Amabari 2.0 promises to make life much easier for Hadoop admins who struggle to keep their projects ...
Twitter cuts off ‘firehose’ access, eyes Big Data bonanza
Twitter upset the applecart on Friday when it announced it would no longer license its stream of half a billion daily tweets to third-party resellers. The social media site said it had decided to terminate all current agreements with third parties to resell its ‘firehose’ data – an unfiltered, full stream of tweets and all ...
Frustrated security pros try a new approach: Let the bad guys in
With recent, high-profile security breaches at companies like Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. and Target still fresh in our memories, most enterprises are all too aware of just how costly such incidents can be. The hidden costs of such incidents can add up for years, and can easily stretch into the millions of dollars, and perhaps ...
DARPA announces project to build evolving software that never dies
The United States’ leading madcap military boffins over at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a plan to create self-adapting software that can live for over one hundred years without becoming obsolete. The project is being dubbed “Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems”, or BRASS, and aims to build an entirely new software ...
PC market nosedives as Windows XP replacement cycle ends
Despite showing signs of life earlier this year, the PC market has once again hit a downward trend, according to analysts from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. Both industry watchers released their quarterly PC market trackers yesterday, with Gartner showing shipments fell by 5.2 percent to 71.7 million units in Q1, while IDC said ...
Microsoft unloads virtualized containers for Windows Server
Microsoft had a busy day at the office yesterday, announcing the launch of its very own container technology that’s designed to run on its Windows Server operating system. In addition, it also announced the general availability of its Azure DocumentDB NoSQL database, and a stripped-down version of Windows Server designed only to run containers. The ...
AtScale bursts out of stealth to bring Hadoop to the masses
Enterprise employees are well acquainted with software like Microsoft Excel, but the same cannot be said for technologies like Hadoop, even though it’s considerably more powerful. But with Big Data rapidly becoming mainstream, even smaller organizations are keen to get their hands on the kinds of insights that only tools like Hadoop can deliver. Enter ...
HP faces up to reality: “It makes no sense for us to go head-to-head with Amazon”
Hewlett-Packard Co. has raised a few eyebrows by publicly admitting that it has no chance of competing in the public cloud infrastructure market against the likes of Amazon Web Services, and is “ceding the public cloud”, according to Quentin Hardy in the New York Times. “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. ...