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HP goes shopping: Targets Aruba Networks acquisition
Hewlett-Packard Co. could be poised to make one last acquisition before it splits itself in two, with a report from Bloomberg suggesting it’s looking to snap up wireless networking infrastructure technology outfit Aruba Networks Inc. Bloomberg cites the usual anonymous sources in its report, and says the deal could be announced as soon as next ...
Hortonworks’ Big Data revenues fall short of expectations
The entire Hadoop industry has been anticipating yesterday’s first-ever quarterly earnings report from Hortonworks, Inc., but the results were neither a home run nor a strikeout. The company that grabbed the stock symbol HDP said its losses continue to grow, but it painted a rosy picture of the future. The stock market chose to look on the ...
Mirantis and Google bring Kubernetes to OpenStack
Google has teamed up with OpenStack pure-play vendor Mirantis Inc. in order to make it easier to use the Docker cluster manager Kubernetes on the cloud platform. Mirantis, one of the major OpenStack vendors, said today it’s added support for Kubernetes, an open-source technology built by Google that’s designed to manage containerized applications. The integration ...
Apache HBase 1.0 launched after 7 years of development
After almost seven years of careful development and nurturing, the Apache Software Foundation has finally signed off on the first stable release of HBase 1.0, which is often more simply referred to as the Hadoop Database. The release of HBase 1.0, which has been built to work with various different flavors of Hadoop, was described ...
HP reshuffles Helion cloud leadership as Mårten Mickos steps down
Hewlett-Packard Company’s cloud division is in the midst of a management reshuffle, with reports suggesting that senior vice president Marten Mickos, formerly the CEO of cloud vendor Eucalyptus, has stepped down from day-to-day operations to be replaced by some familiar faces. GigaOM first broke the news on Monday, while The Register later published details of ...
Microsoft brings Machine Learning in the cloud
Microsoft believes that too much of the world’s Big Data is going to waste, and so it’s just launched a new intitiative to help organizations process it all, build APIs and finally make some sense out of it. The technology, called Azure Machine Learning (ML), is a new cloud based service that can be accessed ...
Hidden costs of Sony’s data breach will add up for years, experts say
If there’s one positive to come out of last year’s catastrophic security breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., it’s that the incident highlighted just how expensive a serious data breach can be. That’s an important consideration for enterprises because security infrastructure doesn’t come cheap, and justifying the return on problems that don’t occur can be ...
Qubole’s Big Data-as-a-service platform Sparks into life
Big data-as-a-service player Qubole is getting up to speed with the addition of Apache Spark to its Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform. The company, which was founded by the team that developed Facebook’s data infrastructure, claims that the addition of Spark broadens the types of workloads that can be performed on QDS via the cloud, ...
Will IBM’s software-defined assault on storage pay off?
This week, IBM announced the launch of IBM Spectrum Storage, targeted at both software-defined storage (SDS) and the hybrid cloud, in the process once again pushing its storage initiatives back under the spotlight. Major storage vendors and startups alike have been busy pushing software-defined systems that span anything from a single array to entire enterprises. ...
Lenovo said to be shipping adware-infected PCs that pose serious security risk
Lenovo is mired in trouble after being caught red-handed shipping out laptops pre-installed with ‘adware’ that can potentially steal web traffic via man-in-the-middle attacks. The software in many of its Windows-based devices not only injects advertising into user’s search results, but it’s also capable of hijacking SSL/TLS connections to websites, thanks to the presence of ...