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Cisco swoops on SDN startup Embrane
Cisco Systems Ltd. has made a statement of intent with the acquisition of software-defined networking startup Embrane Inc., following its $14 million investment in the firm last year. In an announcement on its website this morning, Cisco said the move was about bolstering its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) efforts, and will allow it to “move ...
AWS gets the thumbs=up from European data privacy watchdog
An assortment of European Union data protection groups, collectively known as the Article 29 Working Party has given its biggest thumbs-up so far to Amazon Web Services (AWS), saying its standard contractual clauses meet all the requirements of EU data protection laws. The Article 29 Working Party’s stamp of approval means that AWS customers who ...
Top HP exec Donatelli jumps ship to Oracle
Multiple sources have told Business Insider that Hewlett-Packard Co. executive David Donatelli has jumped ship to one of the company’s biggest rivals – Oracle Corp. – where he’s taken up an executive vice president position within the firm’s hardware division. Neither company has made any official comment on the move, but Business Insider claims Donatelli ...
Mozilla launches free, online threat modelling tool
The Mozilla Foundation, best known for its popular Firefox web browser, has teamed up with a bunch of university graduates to develop a free, online ‘threat modelling’ tool it says can help system administrators to understand the risks faced by their networks. Called “SeaSponge”, the HTML5 tool was created as an open-source project under Mozilla’s ...
Coho Data & Intel team up to turbo charge Docker containers
Software-defined storage (SDN) startup Coho Data has hit the headlines again, teaming up with chip making giant Intel Corp. to search for a way to redefine how data center I/O can be managed in the age of containers. Coho Data came out of stealth in 2013, and discussed how it integrates SDN with storage to ...
IBM throws $3B into the Internet of Things
IBM has announced plans to create a dedicated business unit for Internet of Things (IoT), and will fund it to the tune of $3 billion over the next four years. Big Blue is a keen adherent of the idea that connected devices (be they sensors, cars or fridges) will be able to provide real-time data ...
HP revamps Haven Big Data platform with IDOL & Vertica integration
Hewlett-Packard Co. has rolled out a host of new upgrades to its HP Haven Big Data Enterprise and OnDemand platforms in order to better integrate the two elements. The biggest update looks to be the launch of the HP Haven Connector Framework Server that integrates the analytics capabilities of HP Vertica with the company’s IDOL ...
Opportunity rover’s flash memory flops again
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity was left reeling by another flash memory failure that caused it to suffer a case of “amnesia”, although it didn’t lose any scientific data. The weary and battered Martian explorer’s flash memory has suffered from a string of problems over the years. The rover packs 256 MB of flash memory ...
ClearStory Data beefs up Apache Spark-based analytics solution
Big Data intelligence firm ClearStory Data has just launched a new version of its Apache Spark based analytics software that speeds up the time it takes to analyze data from disparate sources. In addition, it’s touting a faster approach for preparing data for analysis, together with a simple method for blending data. ClearStory’s Intelligent Data ...
BlackBerry’s turnaround remains on track with surprise quarterly profit
When John Chen took over as BlackBerry CEO a little over 20 months ago, the company was caught in a seemingly irreversible death spiral, hemorrhaging cash all over the place. Many analysts were predicting the company’s demise, and the company reportedly came close to selling itself to China’s Lenovo on more than one occassion But ...