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Opportunity rover’s flash memory flops again
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity was left reeling by another flash memory failure that caused it to suffer a case of “amnesia”, although it didn’t lose any scientific data. The weary and battered Martian explorer’s flash memory has suffered from a string of problems over the years. The rover packs 256 MB of flash memory ...
ClearStory Data beefs up Apache Spark-based analytics solution
Big Data intelligence firm ClearStory Data has just launched a new version of its Apache Spark based analytics software that speeds up the time it takes to analyze data from disparate sources. In addition, it’s touting a faster approach for preparing data for analysis, together with a simple method for blending data. ClearStory’s Intelligent Data ...
BlackBerry’s turnaround remains on track with surprise quarterly profit
When John Chen took over as BlackBerry CEO a little over 20 months ago, the company was caught in a seemingly irreversible death spiral, hemorrhaging cash all over the place. Many analysts were predicting the company’s demise, and the company reportedly came close to selling itself to China’s Lenovo on more than one occassion But ...
Microsoft rolls out new Azure Site Recovery and Backup tools
Microsoft has launched a couple of new features for its Azure Site Recovery and Backup services. First up is Azure Site Recovery, which has been given the ability to enable “protection and disaster recovery” for physical servers and VMware virtual machines. It allows businesses to remotely monitor the health of their machines and create tailor-made ...
Intel, Micron & Toshiba tout faster, cheaper flash
Chip makers usually try to add extra storage capacity by packing greater numbers of transistors onto their flat checkerboard-style circuitry grids. But now they’re getting smarter – they’re stacking transistors in three dimensions, and that should lead to an exponential growth in flash storage capacity. Yesterday, Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Corp. announced they’re the ...
Facebook accused of stealing Open Compute data center designs
A UK firm that specializes in building modular data centers from prefabricated parts has filed a law suit against Facebook containing some serious allegations. The suit claims the social media giant has not only stolen and used BladeRoom Group Ltd’s designs to build its own data centers, but has also released them to the public ...
FinancialForce bags $110M funding round to build out ERP cloud
FinancialForce.com, the cloud enterprise resource planning company that sits atop of Salesforce Inc’s platform, has just announced a $110 million funding round to help it capitalize on the growing demand for cloud-based ERP solutions. The latest funding round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, and adds to the $50 million the firm raised back in ...
Apple enrages open-source community with FoundationDB shutdown
Apple has caused a bit of a ruckus in the open-source community with its acquisition of FoundationDB, a company that leads the development of the highly specialized, speedy and durable NoSQL database that bears the same name. The acquisition was reported earlier this week, and the company put out a statement saying its “made the ...
NoSQL market frames larger debate: Can open source be profitable?
Open source software is accelerating innovation in technology like never before. Over the last decade, non-proprietary, community-developed software has been adopted into virtually every aspect of computing, becoming the foundation for everything from Big Data and cloud computing to mobile devices and Bitcoin. Yet despite the amazing successes of the open-source community and especially those ...
U.S. government bids to make HTTPS standard on all .gov websites
The United State’s newly appointed CIO – ex VMware Inc. man Tony Scott – has launched a new initiative aimed at making HTTPS the standard protocol for all .gov websites. HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, and offers what’s believed to be the strongest possible privacy protection for public Internet connections, says a draft ...