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Oracle rolls out 32-core SPARC M7 chip with in-memory processing
Say what you like about Oracle Corporation’s CEO Larry Ellision, but he’s sticking to his guns this time around. When his company acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion back in 2010, he said that Oracle wanted to control its own hardware and built specialized kit tuned to run its software stack. And despite slow sales ...
Can technology help to cure depression?
In the wake of Robin William’s tragic suicide following years of suffering from depression, the spotlight has fallen on ways to treat the illness and prevent future deaths. The focus has always been on medicine or therapy, but recently a number of technologies have emerged that could potentially play a role in curing acute depression. ...
Intel battles Parkinson’s disease with Big Data and wearable tech
Intel Corporation wants to use wearable technology to combat Parkinson’s Disease. While other companies fiddle around with wrist bands designed to improve our fitness or track our heart rates, the chip maker has teamed up with the Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF) for Parkinson’s Research to try and find a cure for the world’s second-most ...
OpenStack adds hosted private cloud category to marketplace
OpenStack has just added a new Hosted Private Cloud category to its Marketplace vendor comparison site, in a move it says represents growing interest in the option from customers. The new category includes products and service from Aptira, AURO, Blue Box, IBM, DataCentred, Metacloud, Mirantis, Morphlabs, Rackspace and UnitedStack. All of these products and services ...
Google, HP reported to be teaming on Google Now for business
Android has struggled to make inroads in the enterprise market so far, but Google isn’t about to throw in the towel just yet. Rumors emerged yesterday that the search giant is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to develop a business-oriented version of Google Now to help workers access company data quickly and easily via their ...
CoreOS snaps up Quay.io to deliver private Docker Repositories
The lightweight Linux vendor CoreOS has made a move to flesh out its business offerings by snapping up Docker container hosting firm Quay.io for an undisclosed sum. Quay.io has developed software that companies can use to stitch together applications while keeping their creations safe and isolated from the rest of the world. It’s a host ...
There’s big bucks in Big Data, but will we be left poorer for it?
We see stories about how Big Data’s potential to change the world almost every day, especially where big business is concerned. But few people discussed the negatives it could have, such as its potential to disrupt the academic world in a way that could harm us all. An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal ...
VMware spreads some container love
There’s few more exciting topics in infrastructure software than containerization at the moment, and with good reason too. As an easy-to-use and lightweight alternative to virtualization, there’s been lots of discussion about it either one day replacing virtualization completely, or at least carving a decent-sized slice of the pie for itself. If and when that ...
Internet troubles today? You can blame it on IPv4
You might have heard something about Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) causing possible connectivity problems in future if web users don’t begin using the newer IPv6. Well, those problems have arrived, with numerous websites including eBay, Amazon, LinkedIn and others hit by outages yesterday. Also affected were major network providers like AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner ...
Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality
One of the biggest challenges of Big Data is that the human mind is just too feeble to comprehend such vast amounts of information. Our brains become overwhelmed by petabytes of data, but EU researchers think they’ve hit upon a way to make it more digestable. The European Commission has just announced €6.5 million in ...