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It’s a big day for DataStax, Inc. as it takes center stage at the 2015 Cassandra Summit. The company, which is bidding to ramp up enterprise adoption of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database it helps to develop, kicked off the day by …
Feeding the world with Big Data: The 3000 Rice Genome project
With the world’s human population set to rise from 7.125 billion now to more than 9 billion by the year 2050, scientists are turning to Big Data to ensure we can keep everyone well fed. The 3,000 Rice Genome sequencing project has …
Citrix reportedly holds talks with Dell as it scrambles to find a buyer
Citrix Systems Inc. is looking to sell its entire self as quickly as possible, with Dell Inc. being mooted as a possible buyer, Reuters reported. But if that doesn’t happen, the company will try to sell off its individual business units. Poorly …
Microsoft releases Office 2016: What’s new and how much does it cost?
Microsoft has taken the wraps off a major update to Office for Windows, introducing a bunch of new features designed to brings its venerable productivity suite into the new era of cloud connectedness. Office has been a mainstay in the enterprise for …
France orders Google to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ everywhere
France’s data protection watchdog has rejected an appeal by Google over the application of the controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ law. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, or more simply “CNIL”, has upheld a decision it made earlier this year …
Red Hat boosts guidance on solid second quarter
Open-source enterprise Linux provider Red Hat Inc. posted a solid set of second quarter financials after the bell on Monday. The company surpassed analyst expectations for both its fiscal second-quarter revenue and net income, boosting its guidance for the year. Red Hat …
Dialog Semiconductor to acquire rival Atmel in $4.6B deal
Dialog Semiconductor Plc, a U.K.-based, German-owned chip maker whose technology powers Apple’s iPhones and iPads, has said it will acquire rival U.S. semiconductor firm Atmel Corp. in a deal valued at $4.6 billion, according to Bloomberg. Dialog, which also sells chips to …
Docker expands its toolset as container adoption gathers pace
Container technology continues to gather pace in the enterprise. Docker, the company at the forefront of the Linux container movement, last week announced a major update to the Docker Hub service that aims to automate developer’s workflows and claimed its technology was …
Microsoft’s built a Linux-based OS to implement software-defined networking
Satya Nadella’s ‘new’ Microsoft has done something the ‘old’ Microsoft would never do. It’s firmly embraced the concept of software-defined networking (SDN) by building a data center network operating system based on Linux. Microsoft belives that doing so gives it much greater …
Arcadia Data brings visual intelligence to Hadoop
Hadoop is maturing rapidly in the enterprise, with a new survey sponsored by AtScale Inc. revealing almost half of all organizations which have deployed between 10 and 500 plus nodes are realizing “tangible value” from their deployments. But getting Hadoop up and …