Mike Wheatley
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A whole lot of Splunk: Big Data visualization comes of age
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the mass of Big Data floating around inside your organization, you could do a whole lot worse than feeding it to Splunk Inc.. One of the biggest takeaways from this year’s Splunk.2014 Conf was just how vast the potential uses cases of the platform are. There’s so many uses in ...
EMC unveils fully integrated ‘virtualized’ data center for hybrid clouds
EMC corp. might be under pressure to break itself up into bits and pieces, but that hasn’t stopped it from pushing ahead with its federation strategy. Today, it’s just launched its Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution, the first of five radically new ‘federation solutions’ it hopes will reinvent enterprise IT. The Federation SDDC draws upon ...
Elliot Management publicly urges EMC to spin off VMware
Activist investment firm Elliot Management Corp. has written a open letter urging EMC to break up its Federation of companies by selling off VMware Inc. Elliot Management is believed to have accumulated a 2.2 percent stake in EMC, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s push to break up the legacy storage giant comes at ...
Hacked off with JP Morgan Chase: Consumers need to be vigilant
Last night it was reported that telecoms operator AT&T had fallen victim to a serious data breach that left approximately 1,600 of its customers exposed. It might seem like a small number, but it’s the latest in a long line of serious data breaches that consumers need to worry about, and comes less than a ...
Docker snaps up testing tools startup Koality
Red hot container startup Docker Inc. has bagged another acquisition in the form of Koality, an even smaller startup that builds development and testing tools, for an undisclosed fee. As a result of the deal, Koality’s four-man team will move into Docker’s headquarters to help it build out its Docker Hub tools. Koality becomes Docker’s ...
Oracle says DBAs will need to recertify before this time next year
Holders of Oracle’s database certifications will soon need to recertify if they want to continue calling themselves experts. Oracle explains away the policy change as thus: “Our new policy requires you as an Oracle Database certification holder to demonstrate your knowledge with the most recent trends, techniques and best practices in Oracle Database technology”. In ...
Overstock.com builds a decentralized, ‘Bitcoin-like’ stock exchange
Few big companies have expressed as much optimism about Bitcoin as the online retail giant Overstock.com, which became the first major retailer in the world to start accepting Bitcoin as payments for its goods earlier this year. The driving force behind that move was none other than Overstock.com’s Bitcoin-loving CEO Patrick Byrne, who followed up ...
Can HP Inc. hack it in a declining hardware market?
As Hewlett-Packard Company prepares to split itself in two, there’s been a lot of speculation that what it’s really trying to do is wash its hands off of a dying PC and printer businesses. The split is a sign that CEO Meg Whitman sees greater opportunity for growth and profits in selling commercial tech products, ...
Apprenda extends PaaS with JBoss support, takes aim at Red Hat
Private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) vendor Apprenda Inc. has just added support for the popular JBoss and Apache Tomcat web servers, a move which translates to deeper support for more Java applications. Apprenda began life as a simple Microsoft .NET-centric PaaS for enterprises, later adding Java support into the mix. It’s been pretty successful with large enterprise ...
What’s all this fuss about smartphone data encryption?
Law enforcement officials on both sides of the pond have kicked up a stink about Apple and Google’s moves to finally encrypt user data on their smartphones. While most consumers think encryption for iPhones and Androids is long overdue (consider that Nokia’s Symbian platform had it way back in 2008), government spooks are less than ...