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Alibaba shakes up the cloud wars with entry into U.S. market
The cloud computing wars have entered a new phase with the news that Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group is to open its first data center in Silicon Valley, where it will go head-to-head with home grown cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and Microsoft. Alibaba, which held the largest IPO in history last year ...
Hadoop vendors turn up the heat as ODP debate ensues
Hadoop heavyweights Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks, Inc. were at each other’s throats again this week, as they continued a lively debate around the merits of what the latter company is calling the new “governing body” of Hadoop’s development, the so-called Open Data Platform (ODP). For those out of the loop, the ODP was established just over ...
SanDisk shakes up the storage stack with new all-flash storage appliance
SanDisk, a company that’s best known for making consumer thumb drives and SD cards, made waves in the storage world this week by entering the market with a flash array that is claimed to be the first to break the $1/gigabyte barrier. InfiniFlash comes at a much lower cost than similar offerings from mainstream disk system vendors ...
IBM steps up mobile enterprise push with 3 new Apple apps
Pressing ahead with an alliance it forged with Apple last year, IBM has just unveiled a fresh crop of enterprise-focused iPhone apps at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, targeting the banking, retail, and airline industries. IBM’s partnership with Apple was initiated last summer, and has already resulted in ten industry-specific apps launched last December, ...
HP advances hybrid cloud push with Helion updates
Hewlett-Packard Co. has reinforced its commitment to the hybrid cloud model with the launch of an updated version of its enterprise-focused, Openstack-based Helion cloud platform. The biggest news is that HP is restoring Helion’s compatibility with Amazon Web Services, following a decision to drop support for the leading cloud vendor with its first major release ...
Network Wars: Aruba give HP needed credibility in wireless market
Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday confirmed rumors it wants to buy out Aruba Networks Inc., announcing it would acquire the company later this year in a deal worth almost $3 billion. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors at both companies and means Aruba will be absorbed into the HP Enterprise Group led by ...
Drones in the enterprise: How high can they go?
Drones, also called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are undergoing a dramatic transformation as they evolve from expensive toy to critical business tool. Fitted with sensors and miniature cameras, these unpiloted aircraft are being pressed into service in many industries – scanning agriculatural land and spraying pesticides, making movies, searching for survivors in disaster-hit areas, and ...
3D Robotics raises $50M to build better drones with mobile chips
Drone and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology startup 3D Robotics Inc. has just raked in a massive $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Qualcomm Ventures, the latest in a flurry of investments going into the industry. The Berkeley, California-based startup also gains a new partner in Qualcomm itself, and will build ...
Silent Circle targets the enterprise with super-secure Blackphone
Remember the Blackphone? Developed in response to concerns over the US government’s surveillance programs and concerns over web security, the $600+ handset is designed to keep your communications private and your essential data absolutely secure. It was built in cooperation between encrypted communications provider Silent Circle and its hardware partner Geeksphone, but today the former ...
China adds Apple and Cisco to its blacklist
China’s government has removed any lingering doubts that it’s making life difficult for US tech firms with the removal of Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Ltd. from a list of approved companies. The Reuters news agency obtained a list of the Chinese central government’s approved technology vendors, and the two tech giants are nowhere to ...