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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 ...
Microsoft promises enterprise-grade security features for Windows 10
Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to entice enterprises to adopt its up-and-coming Windows 10 operating system with a range of new security features that will be built into the final release. The plans were discussed in a lengthy blog post by Jim Alkove from the Microsoft Windows enterprise program management team. Alkove said Microsoft is ...
Lufthansa quits computers, outsources IT operations to IBM
Who says IT outsourcing is dead? IBM just bagged its biggest new customer of the year in the form of German flagship air carrier Lufthansa AG. The airline agreed to sell its IT services division to IBM, which will run it on a contract basis for at least the next seven years. The deal follows ...
NIST drafts hypervisor security recommendations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft publication laying out the basics of hypervisor security. SP800-125a was published earlier this week, and is now open for public comment. The guide, written by NIST director and George Mason University professor Ramaswamy Chandramouli, is geared towards enterprise security and IT management, as ...
EMC welcomes a faster, more agile VCE back into its federation
EMC Corp. has put an end to days of speculation by confirming its intentions to buy out Cisco Systems Inc’s share of the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE). Once the deal is completed, VCE will be absorbed into EMC’s greater federation of companies. In a press call this morning, EMC said it’s going to buy ...