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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 ...
Will this be the year of Hadoop? 6 predictions for 2015
With the New Year finally upon us it seems as good a time as any to ask where Hadoop, the open-source Big Data framework, will be heading in 2015. SiliconANGLE pulled forecasts from an assortment of analysts and industry experts who’ve tried to second guess the next big developments in Hadoop, and the overwhelming consensus ...
Customers, not shareholders, need to drive Microsoft comeback, observers say
After years of declining PC sales, its failure to make an impact in mobile computing and the increasingly aggressive encroachment onto its turf by arch-rivals Apple and Google, things are finally looking up for Microsoft. New CEO Satya Nadella has just presided over one of the most transformative years in the company’s history in 2014, ...
Cloud price wars: How low can they go?
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft have been waging a price war in cloud compute, network, and storage services that has taken on drumbeat predictability. You can safely bet that when one drops prices, the others will follow in lock step. The question for customers is how low can they go? The last major tussle ...
Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1
Google has made Microsoft look a bit foolish after publishing details of a vulnerability it discovered in Windows 8.1 that allows attackers to gain system administrator privileges. Google didn’t hesitate to release the vulnerability, as well as the code needed to exploit it under its “Project Zero” initiative. That project team is tasked with tracking ...
Verizon Cloud customers brace themselves for two-day outage
Verizon has admitted its cloud services will go offline for as long as 48 hours next weekend, during which time all virtual machines hosted there will be unavailable. Verizon’s Cloud Client Care page neglects to mention the scheduled updates, which are supposedly unavoidable to enable new, unnamed improvements to the service, but the company has ...