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Microsoft seals the deal for Revolution Analytics
Microsoft has completed its takeover of Revolution Analytics, the company that commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over recent years with the rise of data scientists. Revolution Analytics offers the Revolution R suite of tools that makes it possible to gain insights from large data ...
Oracle adds Big Data Integration tool to streamline Hadoop deployments
Oracle Corp. yesterday took the wraps off its new Data Integrator for Big Data, a solution that’s designed to help facilitate data integration and help deliver actionable insights to customers. The news comes shortly after Oracle announced a new grand vision for enterprise Big Data, releasing a clutch of new tools aimed at enabling its ...
Open-source eats open-source: Why the innovation will never stop
Technology only exists thanks to innovation. If nobody was pushing the boundaries with fresh ideas, then technology, and the people who depend on it, would have died out with the neanderthals. But while many people might believe the big tech vendors are the ones responsible for driving most of the innovation in computing today, that ...
NSA spying caused 9 percent of foreign firms to dump U.S. clouds
In the weeks following Edward Snowden’s revelations of the NSA’s massive web surveillance program PRISM, speculation was raised about the negative implications it could have on U.S. cloud companies. Now, Forrester Research has taken the time to see just what kind of impact it has had, asking a host of foreign firms whether or not ...
Juniper Networks dumps OpenDaylight, VMware scales back involvement
Juniper Networks Inc. has said it’s pulling out of the OpenDaylight consortium, while VMware Inc. has said it will downgrade its involvement from platinum membership to silver membership. The OpenDaylight consortium is the body set up to maintain the Linux Foundation’s SDN controller project, but the loss of two of its key members is unlikely ...
Mozilla joins Google in banning China’s web registrar over security breach
The Mozilla Foundation, the organization which develops the Firefox web browser, has joined Google in saying that it will stop trusting all new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The move comes in response to a major breach of trust that saw unauthorized credentials issued for Gmail and several other ...
Cisco swoops on SDN startup Embrane
Cisco Systems Ltd. has made a statement of intent with the acquisition of software-defined networking startup Embrane Inc., following its $14 million investment in the firm last year. In an announcement on its website this morning, Cisco said the move was about bolstering its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) efforts, and will allow it to “move ...
AWS gets the thumbs=up from European data privacy watchdog
An assortment of European Union data protection groups, collectively known as the Article 29 Working Party has given its biggest thumbs-up so far to Amazon Web Services (AWS), saying its standard contractual clauses meet all the requirements of EU data protection laws. The Article 29 Working Party’s stamp of approval means that AWS customers who ...
Top HP exec Donatelli jumps ship to Oracle
Multiple sources have told Business Insider that Hewlett-Packard Co. executive David Donatelli has jumped ship to one of the company’s biggest rivals – Oracle Corp. – where he’s taken up an executive vice president position within the firm’s hardware division. Neither company has made any official comment on the move, but Business Insider claims Donatelli ...
Mozilla launches free, online threat modelling tool
The Mozilla Foundation, best known for its popular Firefox web browser, has teamed up with a bunch of university graduates to develop a free, online ‘threat modelling’ tool it says can help system administrators to understand the risks faced by their networks. Called “SeaSponge”, the HTML5 tool was created as an open-source project under Mozilla’s ...