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Apache Spark: Hadoop friend or foe?
Apache Spark is the tech du jour in Big Data right now. Its ability to provide speedy performance against huge volumes of data has made such a splash that some people are even beginning to question the future of Hadoop. But does Spark really have what it takes to overshadow the world’s hottest Apache open-source project? With up ...
SAP revamps its main Business Suite to run on in-memory HANA
German software giant SAP has just unveiled the next generation of its flagship Business Suite that’s married to its HANA in-memory database platform. The new business suite, called SAP S/4Hana, is designed to bring HANA’s real-time intelligence capabalities to everywhere in the enterprise, on every kind of device. SAP is essentially combining its CRM, ERP, ...
Alibaba delivery drones take-off in 3-day pilot scheme
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has stolen a march on Amazon.com, and is now testing a drone-based delivery service, according to a post on the Taobao website. The extremely limited pilot program that brings Jezz Bezos’ dream to life is being done in partnership with Shanghai YTO Express, and will last from February 4 ...
DARPA wants behavior-based biometrics to replace passwords
The United States’ military mad-tech unit, better known as DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) is building a behavior-based biometric identification system that it believes could one day replace traditional passwords. DARPA apparently thinks that a behavior-based biometric system, which looks at how a computer user handles their mouse or crafts an email, would ...
Intel’s new chips cut the cord with wireless docking & display tech
Intel has just made its latest bid to persuade enterprises to upgrade their PCs with the release of its 5th generation Intel Core vPro Broadwell chip. This time around, its teasing the prospect of a wire-free workplace, with new wireless docking and display technology, together with a range of IT department-friendly features that enhance device ...
Building the IIoT: The next industrial revolution
The economic potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is simply too massive for enterprises to ignore. Accenture LLP says it could add as much as $14 trillion to the world’s economy by 2030, as long as businesses and governments make the necessary investments to build out enabling factors like broadband networks and skills. ...
Microsoft invests in Cyanogen’s custom ROM to “take Android away from Google”
Microsoft is reportedly investing in an alternative Android firmware startup called Cyanogen, Inc., which builds the popular Cyanogenmod version of Google’s mobile operating system. The Wall Street Journal claims Microsoft would be a “minority investor” in a $70 million funding round that sees Cyanogen’s value skyrocket into “the high hundreds of millions”. Cyanogenmod is based ...
Windows slump shows Microsoft’s transformation is taking hold
Yesterday brought bad news for Microsoft’s shareholders, but the company’s leadership won’t be unduly concerned that its share price fell by 9 percent on Tuesday afternoon, shortly after announcing its fiscal second-quarter results and accompanying outlook. A first glance suggests Microsoft is trundling along rather nicely, with the $26.5 billion in revenues and $0.71 in ...
Don’t let IoT hype distract from security fundamentals, experts say
The Internet of Things (IoT) is often portrayed as some kind of futuristic concept, but the reality is that ‘smart things’ already have an established presence in our homes and workplaces. NPD Group says the average U.S. household already possesses 5.7 connected ‘things’, while almost 65 percent of U.S. businesses had deployed IoT technologies in ...
AWS cloud beats out Google & Microsoft in reliability stakes
Amazon Web Services was the most reliable of the “big three” cloud services – AWS, Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure – according to two seperate studies by companies that analyze cloud outages. CloudEndure, which offers public cloud migration assistance to enterprises, says AWS saw a 488 percent reliability improvement during 2014, with just 230 ...