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Anonabox Tor router gets kicked off of Kickstarter
Kickstarter has suspended donations for Anonabox, its hottest and most controversial project of the moment, following a deluge of claims from netizens that the tiny device isn’t an original design. That means the developers behind it will not be able to collect a dime of the $600,000 pledged so far. The Anonabox was touted as ...
Study says Big Data set to fuel the next Industrial Revolution
A new study from Accenture Plc and General Electric Corp. (GE) has concluded that digital technologies offer a level of opportunity that’s unprecedented in the history of business. So disruptive are these technologies that over 66 percent of executives believe there’s an urgent need to adopt Big Data technologies to avoid losing their market position. ...
Microsoft delivers Azure-in-a-box solution for hybrid clouds
Microsoft Corp., held a big cloud press event yesterday where it announced the Azure Marketplace together with a new family of Azure products it hopes will convince customers of its ability to run hyperscale, enterprise-grade and hybrid cloud computing environments. The Azure Marketplace will serve as a one-stop-shop for offerings from Microsoft’s cloud partners. Users ...
Lenovo said to be looking at buying BlackBerry – again
China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. might be close to completing the acquisition of struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry Limited – for real, this time – according to reports. Canada’s CBC News reports that Lenovo is in talks to snap up the ailing firm for around $15 per share, despite the fact that similar negotiations broke down last ...
Rackspace serves up Hadoop on bare-metal cloud platform
Rackspace Inc., burst into the Strata + Hadoop World conference yesterday with a unique solution to a Big Data problem an announcement that could massively impact Big Data. It’s just launched a new solution called the OnMetal Cloud Big Data Platform that gives enterprises bare-metal access to Hadoop clusters in public clouds. Running Hadoop in ...
Huawei & Accenture announce private cloud enterprise push
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has formed a strategic alliance with Accenture Plc.., to develop better cloud services for telecommunications firms and the enterprise. Though the ink is still drying on their pact, the two firms are already engaged in “joint initiatives” that will focus on China, Southeast Asia and a few select developed markets. ...
OpenStack’s 10th release reflects heavy telco influence
OpenStack has just pushed out its tenth release, adding new elements that should make it a more viable option for telecommunications companies. Called Juno, it adds support for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as well as new Big Data capabilities and more granular policy controls for Object Storage. Now four years old, OpenStack has emerged as the ...
HP hops aboard VMware’s hyper-converged EVO:RAIL bandwagon
The VMworld roadshow has moved to Europe this week, where VMware Inc. has introduced Hewlett-Packard Company and Hitachi Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) as new hardware partner for its hyper-converged EVO:RAIL appliance. Launched at last month’s VMWorld event in San Francisco, EVO:RAIL was born out of VMware’s Project Mystic, and combines four servers, direct-attached storage, vSphere, ...
EMC, Pivotal release scale-out bundle for Hadoop data lakes
EMC Corp. and Pivotal Labs reckon that data lakes are becoming more popular as scalable repositories for Big Data analytics, and have released a new scale-out Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 to address that need. Data lakes work much the same way as natural lakes. Large amounts of information from multiple sources are stored there ...
Consumer organization asks Google to extend “right to be forgotten” to Americans
Consumer advocates are pushing for America to become like Europe and introduce a “right to be forgotten” on the Internet. The Consumer Watchdog organization has penned an open letter to Google, asking it to extend the controversial EU ruling to the United States. If it gets its way, it would mean that American citizens could ...