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Canonical launches LXD: Secure, open-source container hypervisors
Docker is making waves again. Just this week, Google Inc. launched its cloud-based Docker-as-a-service called “Container Engine”, which is now available on its Google Compute Engine platform. And now, not to be outdone, Canonical Ltd. is trying to put an entirely new spin on the container concept with the release of its new Linux Container ...
No more hype: 74 percent of execs say Big Data demands “serious attention”
Big Data has officially gone mainstream, with senior executives at U.S. firms projecting much higher spending on collecting and analyzing high-tech information over the next three years. In addition, companies are increasingly hiring chief data officers to oversee their Big Data projects, according to a new survey. These are the findings of NewVantage Partner’s newly ...
AppleCare for Enterprise with IBM support goes Live
Earlier this year Apple Inc., and IBM Corp., announced the beginnings of a new enterprise alliance to deliver industry-specific iOS apps and optimized cloud services. Now, we’ve just seen the first fruits of this partnership with the launch of a new AppleCare for Enterprise site, which suggests the AppleCare plan is now available for IBM’s ...
Cisco: Cloud will eat three-quarters of all data center traffic by 2018
The amount of traffic flowing through the world’s data centers is set to treble in the next four years, with the vast majority of this (76 percent) will being cloud-based traffic, says Cisco Systems Inc. in its annual Cloud Index study. Cisco forecasts strong growth in the amount of cloud traffic, cloud storage and cloud ...
Michael Dell boasts of “strong growth” since going private
Dell Inc. believes its decision to go private was the correct one, helping it to get its products to market faster and spur the company’s growth. Kicking off the company’s annual Dell World conference in Austin, Texas, CEO Michael Dell said “It’s been a year since we completed our privatisation – actually the largest company ...
Trend Micro warns of trend in targeted attacks via bugs, smart things and the deep, dark web
IT security pros be warned – cybercriminals of every ilk are planning to exploit new technologies and previously unknown, ‘Heartbleed-like’ vulnerabilities to launch targeted attacks on business systems in the coming months. At least that’s the dire forecast from security consultancy Trend Micro Inc., which has just published its latest annual report into such things, ...
CERN adopts OpenStack to unlock the mysteries of the universe
Over the last four years OpenStack has emerged as a truly viable way for enterprises to build their own cloud infrastructure, without relying on public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services Inc. But it’s not just traditional enterprises who’re leaping onto the bandwagon – CERN, the European physics laboratory and home of the Large Hadron ...
London cops use Big Data to fight gang violence
Police in the U.K. are testing a new investigative tool that tries to predict the likelihood of known gang members committing violent crimes in the not-too-distant future. London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has just completed a twenty-week study looking into the effectiveness of new software that could’ve been pulled straight out of the Minority Report ...
IDC: Public cloud spending will grow to $127bn by 2018
Researchers from the International Data Corporation (IDC) have dusted off their crystal ball and come up with the forecast that public IT cloud services will account for over half of all server, software and storage spending growth by 2018. The research firm prophesizes that by the end of this year, cloud spending will reach some ...
Mozilla to launch developer-focused Firefox browser next week
The Mozilla Foundation is about to release a new version of its popular web browser, but unlike the regular Firefox, this one won’t be for consumers. Instead, Mozilla is planning to launch “the first browser dedicated to developers.” Web developers typically use tools from companies like Adobe Systems Inc., and Microsoft Corp., to do their ...