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The marriage of Big Data with business intelligence is still evolving, but already it’s become an industry that’s worth multiple billions of dollars. Organizations are falling over themselves to transform their Big Data into actionable insights, and now IBM and Twitter Inc. …
Pure Storage joins forces with OpenStack
OpenStack might still have plenty of detractors who say it’s an over-hyped and immature technology, but the number of backers continues to grow. Yesterday, Flash storage vendor Pure Storage Inc., became the latest company to pledge support for the OpenStack Foundation, joining …
CoreOS delivers private Docker registries for the enterprise
Linux vendor CoreOS has made its Docker-centric Enterprise Registry available as a standalone product. Now, the product can be used with any Docker-enabled operating system, having previously only been available as part of CoreOS’s Premium Managed Linux service. With the Enterprise Registry …
Lenovo completes Motorola buy, becomes major mobile player
Last January it was announced Google Inc. had agreed to sell off its subsidiary Motorola Motobility to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. in a deal worth some $2.91 billion. Now, the acquisition has finally been completed and sees Lenovo suddenly become the world’s …
EMC makes a late hybrid cloud play with triple acquisition
Just when you thought EMC Corp. couldn’t be any busier, it’s gone and acquired no less than three cloud startups in one fell swoop – The Cloudscaling Group Inc., Maginatics Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps Inc. Apparently these weren’t impulsive buys. Each …
Google wants to inject Robots into your blood
Google Inc., has made no secret of its obsession with search, but it’s about to take things to the extreme with the development of nanoparticles that can be injected into people to seek out diseases like cancer. The idea was announced at …
Verizon Wireless uses invisible code to track mobile customers
For the last two years, Verizon Wireless has been secretly tracking its customers online by adding tokens or ‘permacookies’ to web requests made over its cellular network. The data is used to build profiles of its users for advertising purposes, and it …
Drone strike: Pilot claims quadcopter was “deliberately” flown at passenger plane
As if drunk passengers, extreme turbulence, volcanic ash clouds and terrorists weren’t enough, pilots now have to be on the lookout for yet another threat – unnmanned flying drones being purposefully flown towards them. Such an event apparently occurred earlier this year, …
Pure Storage plots all-flash assault on hyper-converged systems
Pure Storage Inc., the all-flash array vendor, has just given the strongest hint yet that it’s about to change direction and start building hyper-converged systems as part of an assault on the commodity server hardware market. In a blog post to celebrate …
Microsoft toys with ARM-based chips for Windows Server
Microsoft Corp. is reported to be testing an ARM-based version of Windows Server, according to Bloomberg, which cites unnamed sources familiar with the company’s plans. If the story is true, it would be an interesting development. The prospect of ARM servers has …