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Canonical & Oracle tag team against Red Hat in OpenStack
Red Hat might be confident of its chances to become the world’s “undisputed” leader in OpenStack, but that hasn’t fazed rivals Canonical or Oracle, who’ve just announced a ‘tag team’ partnership to support each other’s OpenStack distros. “As we have said in the past, while Oracle provides solutions for OpenStack, Linux, and virtualization, Oracle also ...
Western Europe plays catch-up with Big Data
Western Europe is lagging behind the U.S. in terms of Big Data use due to a shortage of skills and worries over data security, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The rate of adoption has also been slowed by the area’s struggling economy and recent EU regulations like the “right to ...
Rackspace takes another scalp in its crusade against patent trolls
Rackspace, which has taken on the mantle of ‘crusader’ against patent trolls, has just scored another crucial victory. But rather than just challenging the validity of the troll’s claims, this time round it’s actually managed to get one patent invalidated. “Rotatable Technologies is now an ex-patent troll,” beamed Van Lindberg, Rackspace’s VP of intellectual property, ...
Red Hat: We want to be “undisputed leader” in the cloud
Red Hat isn’t content with merely being the world’s largest enterprise Linux vendor. Now, it wants to become the industry’s leading enterprise cloud vendor as well, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says he’s going to “win” the market before someone else gets there first. In a blog post, Whitehurst notes: “We’re in the midst ...
EMC flirts with HP & Dell in rumored $132bn Mega-Merger
Rumors of a mega-merger between storage giant EMC Corp., and rival firms Dell Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, have emerged in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Citing its usual “people familiar with the matter,” the WSJ says EMC is under enormous pressure from activist shareholders who think the company would be worth more broken up and ...
Big ‘Mobile Phone’ Data predicts crimes before they happen
While it’s true that crime can occur anywhere and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, it’s still possible to find patterns in the data. Thus, while it can be difficult to predict if a specific individual is likely to commit a crime, attempts to determine when are where crimes might take place can be ...
Google abandons ‘forced’ sign-up policy for Google+
Google seems to have relented on its tough policy towards its not-so-popular social network Google+. Back in July, Google announced users no longer have to use their real names on the site, and now it’s decided to end its policy of ‘forcing’ new users to sign up for a Google+ account. When Google launched its ...
What’s next for Infor after the cloud? You guessed it – Big Data | #Inforum2014
Infor Inc. has achieved something that the likes of Oracle Corp. and SAP could only dream of. That is, it’s successfully transformed itself into a fully-fledged cloud-based software solutions company that, according to Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, “has delivered” on its promises. Eager to shed some light on the transformation within the company, Charles ...
The State of Hadoop 2014: Who’s using it and why
Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway. But how big is Hadoop really? Are many organizations actually using it? If so, what are they using ...
No change at Oracle: Ellison still holds an iron grip over HIS company
Larry Ellison may have stepped down as CEO of Oracle Corp., but he’s still running things from behind the scenes. Ellison, officially the third-richest man in the US after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had just $2,000 when he co-founded Oracle in 1977. In just 27 years he’s presided over its transformation into a $182 ...