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Red Hat ships OpenStack Platform 5 with long-term support
Red Hat has just shipped out the latest version of its Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Aimed at service providers like ISPs, telcos and cloud providers, RHELOP5 is built to let them spin up OpenStack powered clouds, and is based on the recently released OpenStack Icehouse platform that came out in April. One of the main ...
Can Apache Spark live up to the hype?
Spark Summit 2014 provided the latest evidence that the Apache Spark open source data analytics framework may be about to catch fire. Lauded by SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier as the “next big thing in Big Data”, Spark is turning heads because of its impressive speed. It’s becoming a popular alternative to MapReduce, which is one of the central components in ...
EMC boosts its hybrid cloud with raft of new upgrades
EMC has announced a raft of new upgrades to its VMAX family of systems and its XtremIO services, and its Isilon OneFS platform at a special event in London today. The announcements were made at the Redefine Possible event this morning, where the focus is about how EMC is changing to support the growth of ...
IBM battles Beijing’s smog with Big Data
China’s well known for its pollution problem, and few cities are more notorious than its capital Beijing, where smog and dust is believed to be the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year. People are fed up, and this anger has led authorities to declare war on pollution, with the goal of cutting Beijing’s ...
Bitcoin to introduce ‘floating’ fees to speed up transactions
Bitcoin’s chief scientist Gavin Andresen has taken to the Bitcoin Foundation’s blog to outline new ‘floating transaction fees’ that will be introduced in the Bitcoin Core 0.10 release. In his post, Andresen writes that the new code will enable something he calls “smarter” fees which govern the length of time it takes for transactions to ...
Red Hat clone CentOS-7 looks just like RHEL 7
The latest update of CentOS, the free community edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has just been released, according to posts on the official CentOS blog. CentOS version 7 if the first iteration of the OS to be release since it brokered a deal with Red Hat earlier this year to work together more closely. ...
NSA’s XKEYSCORE dissected: All Tor users marked as ‘extremists’
Anyone trying to protect themselves from the NSA’s surveillance might well be shooting themselves in the foot. An investigation by German researchers has stumbled upon a rule in the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program that allows it to monitor everything from web traffic to private emails. Apparently, anyone using Tor or proxy servers to access the web ...
Oracle beefs up virtualization manager with new update
Oracle VM has received an update that looks to deliver enterprise scale performance enhancements for x86 and SPARC architectures while extending support for both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads. Oracle’s server virtualization platform for x86 is free to download, but it doesn’t seem to that high on the legacy giant’s priority list judging from the fact ...
Beep, beep! Make way for Linux on connected cars
Move over Apple, Windows and Android – Linux is making its own play to become the default operating system for smart cars with the release of downloadable code from its Automotive Grade Linux project. Announced on Monday, the project is built on the Tizen operating system that was originally conceived as a rival to Android ...
VMware invites anyone to crash-test its next-gen vSphere in private beta
VMware is inviting interested folks to test drive future versions of its vSphere by joining a new “private beta community”. According to the company, willing participants will be able to “download, install and test vSphere beta” in their own environments, and then help the company out by providing feedback on how they use the software ...