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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 ...
Red Hat scales up Storage Server 3 with support for Hadoop
Red Hat has revamped its Storage Server platform, adding support for the Hadoop framework and the ability to scale up to support larger volumes of data. Released last week, Red Hat Storage Server 3 is the latest version of its software-defined storage (SDS) platform, which is based on the open-source Gluster project the company bought into ...
Divide and conquer: HP plans to split itself into two companies
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) is poised to split into two separate entities, according to an unconfirmed story in the Wall Street Journal. The restructuring move will result in one company that’s focused on building and selling PCs and printers, and another for its enterprise computing and services operations. The WSJ says HP shareholders will be given ...
Google proposes ‘Physical Web’ to replace apps for smart things
When it comes to smart devices, in almost every case there’s an app for that. But in a world where almost every physical object can potentially be online, it won’t be practical to download an app for all of them. Google thinks it’s come up with a solution. This week, the web giant launched a new ...
Adblock vows to defend users from Facebook’s new Atlas tracking tech
Adblock has just thrown a wrench into Facebook’s bid for world ad-domination with the launch of its revamped Atlas people-tracking system. Atlas was quietly re-launched earlier this week, and not surprisingly the system didn’t go over well with privacy advocates, who dislike the idea of being tracked as they flit from site to site around the ...
VMware’s vSphere 6.0 release candidate is ready for testing
Last month’s VMWorld show in San Francisco was notable for the lack of upgrades to VMware Inc.’s core vSphere virtualization platform. While a new beta version was announced, VMware didn’t say which version was being tested and the news barley received any media notice. Now, though, VMware has let it be known that there’s a ...