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Rackspace serves up Hadoop on bare-metal cloud platform
Rackspace Inc., burst into the Strata + Hadoop World conference yesterday with a unique solution to a Big Data problem an announcement that could massively impact Big Data. It’s just launched a new solution called the OnMetal Cloud Big Data Platform that gives enterprises bare-metal access to Hadoop clusters in public clouds. Running Hadoop in ...
Huawei & Accenture announce private cloud enterprise push
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has formed a strategic alliance with Accenture Plc.., to develop better cloud services for telecommunications firms and the enterprise. Though the ink is still drying on their pact, the two firms are already engaged in “joint initiatives” that will focus on China, Southeast Asia and a few select developed markets. ...
OpenStack’s 10th release reflects heavy telco influence
OpenStack has just pushed out its tenth release, adding new elements that should make it a more viable option for telecommunications companies. Called Juno, it adds support for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as well as new Big Data capabilities and more granular policy controls for Object Storage. Now four years old, OpenStack has emerged as the ...
HP hops aboard VMware’s hyper-converged EVO:RAIL bandwagon
The VMworld roadshow has moved to Europe this week, where VMware Inc. has introduced Hewlett-Packard Company and Hitachi Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) as new hardware partner for its hyper-converged EVO:RAIL appliance. Launched at last month’s VMWorld event in San Francisco, EVO:RAIL was born out of VMware’s Project Mystic, and combines four servers, direct-attached storage, vSphere, ...
EMC, Pivotal release scale-out bundle for Hadoop data lakes
EMC Corp. and Pivotal Labs reckon that data lakes are becoming more popular as scalable repositories for Big Data analytics, and have released a new scale-out Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 to address that need. Data lakes work much the same way as natural lakes. Large amounts of information from multiple sources are stored there ...
Consumer organization asks Google to extend “right to be forgotten” to Americans
Consumer advocates are pushing for America to become like Europe and introduce a “right to be forgotten” on the Internet. The Consumer Watchdog organization has penned an open letter to Google, asking it to extend the controversial EU ruling to the United States. If it gets its way, it would mean that American citizens could ...
Apple & Facebook will pay female workers to keep their eggs ‘in the basket’
Silicon Valley has long been a fertile hunting ground for top technology talents, but Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are putting a new spin on the meaning, by offering to freeze their female employees’ eggs so they can put off having kids till later in life. As reported by NBC News, Facebook is already offering ...
SAP, IBM cozy up to offer HANA analytics on SoftLayer cloud
Enterprise giants IBM and SAP SE have announced a partnership to run SAP’s HANA in-memory data analytics platform atop Big Blue’s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as well as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. HANA (High Performance Analytical Appliance) is in-memory, column-oriented relational database system that SAP claims has more than 250,000 customers. The vast majority ...
Investors flock to tiny device that promises online anonymity
A new gadget with the potential to strike terror into the hearts of online marketers has just set off a crowdfunding frenzy on Kickstarter. The Anonabox is a tiny, 2.4 inch by 1.6 inch router that aims to anonymize online activity by redirecting Ethernet and Wi-Fi traffic through the Tor network. It launched its fund-raising ...
Windows 10 is idiot-proof, but is it enterprise-ready?
Microsoft Corp. is in something of a celebratory mood, having announced over a million downloads of its Windows 10 Technical Preview. “This is going to be a different Windows,” wrote Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore in a blog post. “We’re going to share our plans and progress with you earlier and more often as we want to ...