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IBM adds Big Data analytics tools as a cloud service
So long as it’s software, it can be provided as a service. At least that’s what IBM seems to believe these days, hence its decision to announce cloud-based versions of IBM Concert, IBM Catalyst and OpenPages. The announcements were made at Vision 2014, a conference for finance, risk management, and sales compensation professionals held in ...
China sticks one up at Microsoft – BANS Windows 8 on all government PCs
China has just caused a bit of a crap storm with the rather stunning decision to ban Windows 8 from all government computers, according to reports in the country. The news comes from Reuters and China’s Xinhua news agency, and cites a statement on the Chinese Central Government Procurement Center’s website that says new PCs ...
VMware confirms pay-as-you-go hybrid cloud plans on Reddit AMA
VMware caused a bit of excitement when it let loose its ‘hybrid cloud’ team on a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session yesterday evening, to give their take on the future direction it’s heading in. Fielding questions were VMware’s Mathew Lodge, who wrote code for the International Space Station and Boeing 777 distributed systems before ...
BMC makes Big Data play, adds support for Hortonworks’ Hadoop
Big Data management received a shot in the arm today, as BMC announced it’s joining Hadoop software and services firm Hortonworks’ technology partner program to integrate its Hadoop workflows for the enterprise. The partnership means that Hortonworks’ Hadoop software gains direct access to Control-M for Hadoop, BMC’s big data management framework. Control-M for Hadoop has ...
IBM Watson breaks the ice with Cognea acquisition
While all eyes are on IBM’s software-defined storage push at IBM Edge this week, the company has made an interesting move into artificial intelligence, acquiring a little-known startup called Cognea. The acquisition was made by IBM’s Watson group and announced in a blog post this morning. Cognea describes itself as a “cognitive computing and conversational ...
OpenStack survey: Ubuntu OS stays on top
Despite the lack of widespread adoption, OpenStack has become one of the major battlegrounds among IT’s biggest players – with the likes of Red Hat, CentOS and HP all betting big on the open-source architecture overwhelming IT sooner rather than later. So it’s mildly surprising to learn that these so-called ‘major players’ have been left ...
IoT will THRIVE by 2025, but not everyone’s looking forward to it
The “Internet of Things” is one of the hottest trends in tech right now, but is it really set to go the distance? And if so, what kinds of effects will it have on our lives in years to come? Those were just some of the questions being pondered by the Pew Research Center Internet ...
Not even Tor can protect you from the all-seeing eyes of the NSA
So you thought you were safe from prying eyes thanks to the Tor network? Well, think again. According to Andy Malone, head of Microsoft’s Enterprise Security, Tor doesn’t provide anything like the kind of anonymity it’s supposed to, and can be compromised by both government agencies and determined cybercriminals. First designed in 2002, Tor was ...
Google wants to translate the real world
Google has taken a giant step forward in its quest to bring translation into the real world, following its acquisition of Quest Visual, makers of the ‘Word Lens’ app, for an undisclosed sum. Word Lens is a smartphone app that’s designed to help travellers read menus and signs in foreign languages. Simply snap a photo ...
Red Hat’s vision for OpenStack could lead to a new era of vendor lock-in
Red Hat potentially opened a new front in the long-running “cloud wars” this week, and one that could have massive implications for customers down the road. Rumor has it that Red Hat is about to start ‘strong-arming’ companies into using its own, personal flavor of OpenStack. Red Hat has since tried to deny these allegations, ...