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Mesosphere adds Kubernetes container management to its Datacenter OS
An ambitious startup called Mesosphere Inc. is bidding to establish its technology as the default operating system in the data center. Meanwhile there’s Google and its Kubernetes project, which it hopes will become the standard technology for interacting with large computing clusters and containers. On the face of it, the two projects seem like competitors. ...
WANdisco’s new Fusion tool syncs Hadoop clusters
WANdisco Plc. has just announced the release of its new WANdisco Fusion tool, designed to distribute large datasets across multiple Hadoop clusters while keeping them in sync and up to date. WANdisco Fusion uses active replication technologies to deliver up to date data from one Hadoop cluster to another, regardless of where those clusters are ...
Cyberattackers go ‘phishing’ for corporate victims
Cyberattackers are increasingly focusing their attacks on businesses rather than consumers, according to a new study by security company ProofPoint Inc. The current favored tactic is to exploit the fatigue of middle managers whose inboxes are often overloaded with emails, while attackers are also seeking to trade off attack volume with more sophisticated attacks. Proofpoint’s ...
VMware earnings top analysts’ expectations
VMware Inc. might be worried about the threat posed to its business by containers, but its financial health is looking better than ever following yet another fine quarterly earnings report. The company has just posted first quarter results exceeding analysts’ expectations, hauling in $1.51 billion in revenues, an 11 percent increase on 2014’s first quarter, ...
Google plans a ‘faster’ Internet with its QUIC protocol
Few readers will remember, but it was almost two years ago that Google announced it was experimenting with a new way to speed up Internet traffic using a protocol it calls QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Now, Google says the results of that experiment are promising, and that it’s successfully boosted web traffic from its ...
BlackBerry’s revival rumbles on with WatchDox acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. has made another bold move as its continues its revival, acquiring Israeli security startup WatchDox in a move that once more illustrates its new, laser-sharp enterprise software focus. The once-beleagured handset maker confirmed the acquisition in a statement earlier today but refused to disclose the terms of the deal. However, Isreali tech sites ...
CenturyLink becomes a NoSQL DaaS player with Orchestrate buyout
Cloud heavyweight wannabee CenturyLink Inc., which is best recognized as a telecommunications vendor, has announced the acquisition of a 10-person startup called Orchestrate, which delivers fully managed, high performance, fault tolerant NoSQL database technologies. While CenturyLink confirmed the deal in a blog post, neither company made any mention of the terms. Nevertheless, a source familiar ...
Linkurious unveils enterprise graph data visualization tool
Data visualizations represent one of the easiest ways to explore business data, revealing all kinds of hidden nuggets that businesses can derive actionable insights from. Now, data visualization outfit Linkurious has come up with a way to help businesses to ‘see’ their graph-based data more easily with the launch of its enterprise platform, Linkurious Enterprise, ...
Looming Windows Server 2003 end of support poses problems for businesses
Even though they had years of warning, millions of businesses were left scrambling last year when Microsoft withdrew support for Windows XP, a massively popular operating system that still runs on almost twenty percent of the world’s PCs. But the problems caused by Windows XP’s end of support date might be nothing compared what happened ...
Google brings Big Data to the masses with Cloud Dataflow beta
Google has finally taken the wraps off its Cloud Dataflow offering, which is designed to allow developers lacking in Hadoop skills to build sophisticated analytic “pipelines” capable of processing extremely large datasets. Cloud Dataflow was first introduced last summer, with Google touting it as a next-generation service for building systems that can ingest, transform, normalize, ...