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Hadoop’s horse race: Will Cloudera & Hortonworks go the distance?
One of the biggest talking points at this year’s Hadoop Summit is the race between its two high profile competitors, Cloudera and Hortonworks. The competition is heating up as the market matures, particularly in light of Cloudera’s recent funding round led by Intel. But is this destined to be a fight to the death? Or ...
Apple cozies up to Bing: A threat to Google’s mobile search dominance?
Apple might not be going “thermonuclear” on Google just yet, but it’s not quite ready to buddy up with the Mountain View giant just yet either. At WWDC yesterday it took the opportunity to make its iOS and OS X devices a little less reliant on Google’s infrastructure by embracing search rival Bing, in a ...
Oracle adds new cloud tools with Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4
Oracle has just injected some powerful new capabilities into its Oracle Enterprise Manager software in yet another sign that it’s waking up to the money-spinning possibilities of the cloud. The update – Enterprise Manager 12c Release 4 – allows organizations to offer a database-as-a-service which comes with features like disaster recovery and high availability. Like ...
The “real” impact of China’s war on US tech
The row between the US and China over cyber-espionage allegations could cause some real headaches for American firms, fostering suspicions and mistrust that could impact on tech trade between the two nations. That much was evident last week when China turned up the heat on IBM, announcing it was “reviewing” whether local banks should dump ...
iOS 8 boldly goes where no iOS has gone before
Apple caused a bit of a stir in its keynote at WWDC yesterday, with the introduction of several new features developed with enterprise IT users in mind. During the keynote, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said that iOS 8 would be a “huge hit in the enterprise”, as the company finally ...
VMware responds to AWS stealth attack: ‘Don’t be fooled’
VMware has hit back at Amazon’s sneaky “stealth attack” on its vCenter management console in a carefully worded blog post that aims to dissuade users from embracing its new rival. It follows last week’s announcement of a new AWS Connector for vCenter plug-in that makes it easier for admins to manage and migrate workloads from ...
AWS launches stealth bomb on VMware
Amazon has just teleported its cloud into VMware’s management software with the release of its new “AWS Connector for vCenter”. The connector lets VMware administrators buy, manage, and migrate VMs into AWS cloud resources from within VMware’s vCenter management console. vCenter is a widely used piece of software from VMware that lets admins manage large ...
NSA using facial recognition software to build massive image database
The NSA isn’t just interested in reading all of your emails and listening to your phone calls, now it wants to put a face to the name. At least that’s according to the latest batch of NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, brought to our attention by the New York Times. The documents show how ...
Is MaidSafe really the ‘Bitcoin of data’?
When Edward Snowden revealed how the NSA has been spying on people’s online activities, some began looking for ways to protect themselves while using online services. There are some services, such as email, social networks, browsers and so on, that promise to keep people’s identity safe and protected, but people are still looking for safer ...
Server market sinks again: Can Lenovo turn it around?
Lenovo executives could be forgiven for having second thoughts as they wait to get their hands on IBM’s x86 server business, following a new report from Gartner which shows Big Blue’s sales train heading south yet again. Gartner says IBM’s server business continued its slump in Q1 of 2014, and is now estimating a 27.8 ...