HP digs Vertica’s claws deeper into Hadoop
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest vendor to build a bridge between Big Data on Hadoop and traditional SQL databases with a version of its HP Vertica database for Hadoop. The technology is aimed at…
Google goes trawlin’ for poachers with Global Fishing Watch
Google has come up with some pretty awesome maps like Street View and Google Sky. Now it’s turning to a new market with Global Fishing Watch, a mapping service that enables people to track and share…
Facebook said to be working on enterprise social network
High expectations for the potential of Facebook-like social networks that work behind the corporate firewall have mostly met with frustration, but now a new player appears set to enter the game: Facebook. According to a…
Latest Windows 10 build sports new touchpad gestures, revamped OneDrive
Microsoft Corp. has pushed out a new release of its work in-progress Windows 10 operating system. Called Build 9879, the latest edition includes an improved OneDrive file management system, new gesture controls, new icons and…
Amazon’s enterprise push: “We’re in it to win it” | #reinvent
“The message from Amazon is, “we’re going to win the enterprise”, they’re serious now and they’re showing some proof points.” That’s how theCUBE host John Furrier sees it at the close of this year’s…
US judge rules Iran’s top-level domain cannot be seized
A global diplomatic crisis seems to have been averted after a Washington DC judge ruled that it’s unlawful to seize a country’s Internet domain registry. Lawyers working on behalf of nine American citizens who…
Amazon spins out ‘lifecycle management’ tools for cloudy devs
Amazon Web Services Inc. considers itself to be quite the expert when it comes to deploying apps in the cloud, and it’s just underlined that point with the launch of a new range of…
Chinese hackers took out the NOAA’s weather satellites
Chinese hackers have been blamed for an attack on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) weather forecasting systems, which caused a multi-day data outage when the agency reacted to the breach in October.…
AWS launches Aurora relational database in the cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc., has just taken a shot at rival Oracle Corp., with the release of a new, cloud-based relational database service that it claims will deliver better performance at a fraction of…
Microsoft patches 19-year old “unicorn-like” bug
Microsoft Corp. has patched what it describes as a critical bug in its Windows operating system that’s been present in all versions stretching back to Windows 95, according to reports. The bug could potentially…