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Seagate rolls out Hadoop Workflow Accelerator to boost Big Data analytics
Storage giant Seagate Technology Inc. is moving to accommodate Big Data workloads with the introduction of a new ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator tool. It offers a set of tools and services for optimizing Hadoop, which should boost the performance of its ClusterStor scale-out storage system. Seagate’s Hadoop Workflow Accelerator sounds promising for those who are ...
Airware’s drones get ready for take-off with GE Ventures investment
There’s still a lot of controversy about the safety of unmanned drones buzzing about over our heads, but the idea is getting more popular by the day. A case in point is GE Ventures, which has just announced its plan to collaborate with the San Francisco-based startup Airware, which builds hardware, software and services for ...
Cisco, Mozilla & friends launch Let’s Encrypt to simplify Internet security
A motley crew of tech firms have banded together to launch a new certificate authority initiative called “Let’s Encrypt”, that hopes to make the World Wide Web a safer place to be. Let’s Encrypt, which is backed by Akamai Technologies Inc, Cisco Systems, Inc., the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and the Mozilla Foundation, comes at ...
Microsoft continues open source embrace with Docker client for Windows
Microsoft Corp. is further its move toward open-source integration with the release of a new tool to manage Docker containers inside its Windows Server operating system. The new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows comes just weeks after Microsoft teamed up with Docker to bring the container technology to Windows and the Azure cloud. Microsoft ...
SUSE steps into the software-defined storage space
Enterprise Linux vendor SUSE LLC has burst onto the software-defined storage scene with a major new release at this year’s SuseCon conference in Orlando, Florida. SUSE introduced a new solution called SUSE Storage. Currently in beta, it’s described as a self-healing, self-managing, distributed solution for enterprise customers, and is based on the Ceph open-source Firefly ...
Intel throws its chips in one basket: Mobile and PC divisions to merge
Intel Corp. is planning a bit of a structural shakeup, announcing that it will combine its PC and mobile chip groups into a single entity after struggling to crack the mobile device market. The shakeup was announced via an email sent to employees from CEO Brian Krzanich on Monday. The plan will be implemented early ...
Tor scoffs at claims that 81 percent of its users can be identified
Tor was supposed to be the Holy Grail of Internet anonymity, providing a secure and private way to browse the web. But a new study claims it could actually be a poisoned chalice because of an exploit to Cisco Systems, Inc. routers called Netflow that is said reveal the identities of as many as 81 percent ...
HP digs Vertica’s claws deeper into Hadoop
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest vendor to build a bridge between Big Data on Hadoop and traditional SQL databases with a version of its HP Vertica database for Hadoop. The technology is aimed at allowing everyday business users to manipulate unstructured data using the same familiar syntax they’ve been using to access traditional relational systems. ...
Google goes trawlin’ for poachers with Global Fishing Watch
Google has come up with some pretty awesome maps like Street View and Google Sky. Now it’s turning to a new market with Global Fishing Watch, a mapping service that enables people to track and share information about fishing all over the planet. The efforts isn’t just for weekend anglers. Illegal fishing has become a huge problem ...
Facebook said to be working on enterprise social network
High expectations for the potential of Facebook-like social networks that work behind the corporate firewall have mostly met with frustration, but now a new player appears set to enter the game: Facebook. According to a report in the Financial Times this weekend, Facebook is on the verge of launching a new service called “Facebook for Work,” which ...