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China pumps $6.5B into state-backed venture capital fund
China’s government is placing a big bet on its ability to innovate in the technology sector, with the creation of a state-backed venture capital fund worth $6.5 billion to invest in local startups. The VC fund was announced by China’s State Council yesterday on its official website, according to Reuters. “The establishment of the state ...
Cloudian integrates Apache Hadoop to turn Big Data into ‘smart data’
Hybrid cloud vendor Cloudian Inc. has expanded into Big Data analytics by fully integrating the Apache Hadoop platform into its HyperStore software. In addition, it’s also joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program and achieved full Hortonworks’ certification. HyperStore version 5.1 is a plug-and-play hybrid cloud software solution that’s fully compliant with Amazon S-3. By integrating ...
Lookout report: Mobile threats loom large over the enterprise
Mobile malware targeted at the enterprise is becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to security firm Lookout Inc.’s latest mobile threats report. The paper, titled Enterprise Mobile Threats 2014: A Year In Review, warns that attackers stepped up their focus on application-delivered attacks over the last year, developing an armory of new, highly sophisticated malware programs designed ...
DigitalOcean adds FreeBSD OS to its cloudy mix
Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has added the option to run the FreeBSD operating system in its cloud, and is also considering throwing Windows Server into the mix at a later date. The availability of FreeBSD was widely requested by developers using the DigitalOcean platform. The firm said it was able to make it happen due ...
BlackBerry is poised to make a stunning comeback in 2015
It wasn’t long ago that BlackBerry was considered to be a major player in the smartphone race, owning a big slice of the consumer market and competing with both Apple and Google. What followed was a spectacular fall from grace as the company missed the smartphone pivot and all but collapsed in the space of ...
Basho grabs $25M funding round to beef up Riak NoSQL database
Basho Technologies Inc., the creator of the Riak NoSQL database and Riak CS cloud-storage system, announced a $25 million series G round of funding led by Georgetown Partners, taking the total amount of investment it’s raised to almost $60 million since its founding in 2008. Basho claims that the Riak database, which it offers as ...
EMC & Elliott Management call truce over VMware spin-off
Activist investor firm Elliott Management has called a truce in its campaign to break up IT giant EMC’s Federation of companys, agreeing to a nine-month standstill in exchange for getting two of its representatives onto the company’s board of directors. As of today, EMC’s board is now comprised of 13 members instead of 11, the ...
Should Microsoft give Windows 10 away for free? It may not have a choice
Microsoft has a lot of big decisions to make in 2015, but perhaps few will be more closely watched than its pricing strategy for the upcoming Windows 10. We’ll likely learn more about Microsoft’s intentions as early as next week. Executives are set to reveal the latest preview edition of Windows 10 at an event ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure with G-Series VMs, Docker & Key Vault
As far as virtual machines in the public cloud go, bigger is better. At least that’s what Microsoft seems to believe in any case, if its new Azure G-Series VMs are anything to go by. Rolled out on Thursday, the G-Series packs more memory, processing power and local solid-state drive storage than anything Microsoft’s competitors ...
The PC is evolving, not disappearing, analysts say
The PC market has gone through a long and tortuous decline over the last few years, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Late last year, Ithenternational Data Corp. (IDC) and Gartner Inc. released numbers showing only a small drop in worldwide demand for PCs, a sharp contrast to the rapid ...