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Oracle Corp’s newly-crowned Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison kicked off the company’s annual Oracle OpenWorld event on Sunday. As expected, the company’s efforts in the cloud came under the spotlight. During his keynote, Ellison gave details of Oracle’s upgraded cloud suite which …
Docker adds Official Repos for language stacks to the Docker Hub
Docker Inc., has said it’s going to deliver additional programming language stacks to its customers after learning from their search habits in the Docker Hub. The company wrote about its plans in a blog post this week, saying it’s already added the …
FBI boss Comey slams Apple & Google over new encryption methods
The FBI is getting a bit riled over Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s decision to use tougher encryption methods in its mobile devices, because it’s making it almost impossible for spooks to snoop on suspected criminal. “There will come a day – …
Amazon provides an update on its impending EC2 instance reboot
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided more details on a major Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance reboot that’s set to take place in the coming days, and the good news is it doesn’t have anything to do with the Bash – or …
Amazon forced to reboot its EC2 instances to fix Xen bug
Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The reboots, which will affect instances all over the …
Xamarin bundles over 1,000 test devices in the cloud
Xamarin, the mobile app-dev specialists, has announced the launch of its new web-based “Xamarin Test Cloud”, which lets developers test out their apps and programs on over 1,000 devices. Developers will be able to create their own test scripts using Xamarin’s powerful …
Bash! Take that Heartbleed, there’s a new bug in town
Linux users, which includes the vast majority of the world’s enterprises, could be in for a nasty shock. A security team at Red Hat has just uncovered a deadly new bug in the Bash shell, which is one of the most versatile …
Anti-US sentiment to cause ‘dramatic change’ in the data center market
The world’s data center infrastructure market is bracing itself for “dramatic changes” over the next two to four years, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. Joe Skorupa, Gartner vice president and analyst, said that four factors – highly disruptive competition, …
Ebola Maps: Tracking the deadly disease across West Africa
No matter if it’s Black Death in 1350, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, or this year’s Ebola virus in West Africa, there’s one thing that deadly pandemics have in common – their progress takes a geographical course. And just as in medieval times, …
Canonical & Oracle tag team against Red Hat in OpenStack
Red Hat might be confident of its chances to become the world’s “undisputed” leader in OpenStack, but that hasn’t fazed rivals Canonical or Oracle, who’ve just announced a ‘tag team’ partnership to support each other’s OpenStack distros. “As we have said in …