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Pure Storage plots all-flash assault on hyper-converged systems
Pure Storage Inc., the all-flash array vendor, has just given the strongest hint yet that it’s about to change direction and start building hyper-converged systems as part of an assault on the commodity server hardware market. In a blog post to celebrate the company’s fifth birthday, Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen effectively stated his intent ...
Microsoft toys with ARM-based chips for Windows Server
Microsoft Corp. is reported to be testing an ARM-based version of Windows Server, according to Bloomberg, which cites unnamed sources familiar with the company’s plans. If the story is true, it would be an interesting development. The prospect of ARM servers has generated quite a bit of buzz over the last year or so, mainly ...
Scientists use drones to map malaria in Southeast Asia’s jungles
In the remote jungles of Southeast Asia, drones are being used to fight a new battle. But it’s not against Al Qaeda or ISIS, but a smaller and potentially even more deadly foe – malaria. Plasmodium knowlesi is primate malaria parasite that used to be confined to macaques and other primates in the region and which ...
Startup Soft Machines claims its chip design more than doubles CPU performance
Stealthy semiconductor design startup Soft Machines Inc., has come out with a Variable Instruction Set Computing (VISC) conceptual architecture that it says could usher in a new era of scaling and performance. Soft Machines believes it has overcome efficiency challenges that have frustrated improvements in microprocessor designs recent years. Its press release boasts that its VISC ...
HP launches community edition of Helion OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. has made good on an earlier promise to build and offer its own OpenStack distribution with the general release of its Helion OpenStack software. HP’s Helion is based on the new Juno OpenStack release, and is offered alongside the new Helion Development Platform that combines OpenStack integrated with Cloud Foundry PaaS capabilities. HP ...
Thousands protest proposed “Internet tax” in Hungary
Angered by government plans to impose the world’s first tax on web traffic, thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets of Budapest in protest. RT News reports that “tens of thousands” of people besieged the Hungarian Economy Ministry building to protest the tax on Sunday. They’re aiming to force the government to scrap a ...
How’s Hadoop doing in the enterprise? [Infographic]
Hadoop has come a long way from its humble orgins as Yahoo’s answer to its search engine woes, evolving into a data management platform that’s used by one in four enterprises. Named after an elephant toy that belonged to its inventor’s child, the open source Hadoop framework has evolved into a software market that International Data Corp. ...
Russia, China to cooperate on cybersecurity amid tensions with U.S.
Russia and China are on the verge of signing a unique cybersecurity cooperation agreement that would allow the two states to conduct “joint cybersecurity operations”, according to reports in Russian media. The Russian-language site Kommersant, which Forbes says is owned by Alisher Usmanov, an ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, broke the news, quoting anonymous ...
Microsoft’s cloud-first, mobile-first vision starts paying off
Microsoft’s transition from the desktop to mobility and the cloud is gaining momentum, with the company reporting growth in its cloud services, software and Surface tablet divisions – all areas where it’s been playing catch-up. On Thursday the Redmond firm posted its first quarter fiscal earnings, showing healthy sales revenues of $23.2 billion, up 25 ...
Ubuntu Server 14.10 adds new features for OpenStack & containers
Canonical has just shipped Utopic Unicorn, the latest version of its Ubuntu Server operating system. And while it isn’t quite the Promised Land of operating systems that the name suggests (there are no unicorns either), it does come with support for Docker containers, the latest iteration of OpenStack, and a bunch of other refreshed features ...