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Facebook accused of stealing Open Compute data center designs
A UK firm that specializes in building modular data centers from prefabricated parts has filed a law suit against Facebook containing some serious allegations. The suit claims the social media giant has not only stolen and used BladeRoom Group Ltd’s designs to build its own data centers, but has also released them to the public ...
FinancialForce bags $110M funding round to build out ERP cloud
FinancialForce.com, the cloud enterprise resource planning company that sits atop of Salesforce Inc’s platform, has just announced a $110 million funding round to help it capitalize on the growing demand for cloud-based ERP solutions. The latest funding round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, and adds to the $50 million the firm raised back in ...
Apple enrages open-source community with FoundationDB shutdown
Apple has caused a bit of a ruckus in the open-source community with its acquisition of FoundationDB, a company that leads the development of the highly specialized, speedy and durable NoSQL database that bears the same name. The acquisition was reported earlier this week, and the company put out a statement saying its “made the ...
NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable?
Open source software is accelerating innovation in technology like never before. Over the last decade, non-proprietary, community-developed software has been adopted into virtually every aspect of computing, becoming the foundation for everything from Big Data and cloud computing to mobile devices and Bitcoin. Yet despite the amazing successes of the open-source community and especially those ...
U.S. government bids to make HTTPS standard on all .gov websites
The United State’s newly appointed CIO – ex VMware Inc. man Tony Scott – has launched a new initiative aimed at making HTTPS the standard protocol for all .gov websites. HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, and offers what’s believed to be the strongest possible privacy protection for public Internet connections, says a draft ...
Darktrace bags $18M to expand security analytics reach
UK network security startup Darktrace has just raised $18 million from investors from Invoke Capital, Talis Capital and Hoxton Ventures, in a round that takes its valuation to some $80 million, according to the company. Darktrace, which has previously been backed by former Autonomy founder Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital, says it will use the new ...
Microsoft updates Azure cloud & Windows 10 for the Internet of Things
Microsoft has just its biggest play yet to stay relevant in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, announcing a new highly customisable cloud-based service for its Azure platform. The new Microsoft Azure IoT Suite is set to be launched in preview mode later this year. The offering is meant to help organizations easily integrate ...
The Walking Dead? Flawed data shows over 6.5 million Americans are aged 112
People might be living longer, but not this long. Flawed data from the U.S. Social Security Administration shows that over 6.5 million American citizens have reached the ripe old age of 112. Of course, barely a handful of those people are really still alive, given the Gerontology Research Group claims there were only 61 people ...
U.S Military drops $1.6B VMware contract after protests
The Defence Information Security Agency (DISA) reversed a decision to award VMware Inc. with a $1.6 billion contract, following a protest by number of tech companies last February. The Pentagon’s decision to cancel its joint enterprise licensing agreement with VMware means the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was able to dismiss protests against the award made ...
Microsoft previews Office 2016 & Skype for Business
Microsoft rolled out a couple of new software previews this morning, including the first look at Office 2016 for Windows, and a technical preview of its Skype for Business client, which basically blends the enterprise features of Microsoft Lync with the world’s most popular VoIP program. The releases are designed to put the software in ...