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Juniper Networks Inc. has said it’s pulling out of the OpenDaylight consortium, while VMware Inc. has said it will downgrade its involvement from platinum membership to silver membership. The OpenDaylight consortium is the body set up to maintain the Linux Foundation’s SDN …
Mozilla joins Google in banning China’s web registrar over security breach
The Mozilla Foundation, the organization which develops the Firefox web browser, has joined Google in saying that it will stop trusting all new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The move comes in response to a major …
Cisco swoops on SDN startup Embrane
Cisco Systems Ltd. has made a statement of intent with the acquisition of software-defined networking startup Embrane Inc., following its $14 million investment in the firm last year. In an announcement on its website this morning, Cisco said the move was about …
AWS gets the thumbs=up from European data privacy watchdog
An assortment of European Union data protection groups, collectively known as the Article 29 Working Party has given its biggest thumbs-up so far to Amazon Web Services (AWS), saying its standard contractual clauses meet all the requirements of EU data protection laws. …
Top HP exec Donatelli jumps ship to Oracle
Multiple sources have told Business Insider that Hewlett-Packard Co. executive David Donatelli has jumped ship to one of the company’s biggest rivals – Oracle Corp. – where he’s taken up an executive vice president position within the firm’s hardware division. Neither company …
Mozilla launches free, online threat modelling tool
The Mozilla Foundation, best known for its popular Firefox web browser, has teamed up with a bunch of university graduates to develop a free, online ‘threat modelling’ tool it says can help system administrators to understand the risks faced by their networks. …
Coho Data & Intel team up to turbo charge Docker containers
Software-defined storage (SDN) startup Coho Data has hit the headlines again, teaming up with chip making giant Intel Corp. to search for a way to redefine how data center I/O can be managed in the age of containers. Coho Data came out …
IBM throws $3B into the Internet of Things
IBM has announced plans to create a dedicated business unit for Internet of Things (IoT), and will fund it to the tune of $3 billion over the next four years. Big Blue is a keen adherent of the idea that connected devices …
HP revamps Haven Big Data platform with IDOL & Vertica integration
Hewlett-Packard Co. has rolled out a host of new upgrades to its HP Haven Big Data Enterprise and OnDemand platforms in order to better integrate the two elements. The biggest update looks to be the launch of the HP Haven Connector Framework …
Opportunity rover’s flash memory flops again
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity was left reeling by another flash memory failure that caused it to suffer a case of “amnesia”, although it didn’t lose any scientific data. The weary and battered Martian explorer’s flash memory has suffered from a string …