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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 …
Western Europe plays catch-up with Big Data
Western Europe is lagging behind the U.S. in terms of Big Data use due to a shortage of skills and worries over data security, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC). The rate of adoption has also been slowed …
Rackspace takes another scalp in its crusade against patent trolls
Rackspace, which has taken on the mantle of ‘crusader’ against patent trolls, has just scored another crucial victory. But rather than just challenging the validity of the troll’s claims, this time round it’s actually managed to get one patent invalidated. “Rotatable Technologies …
Red Hat: We want to be “undisputed leader” in the cloud
Red Hat isn’t content with merely being the world’s largest enterprise Linux vendor. Now, it wants to become the industry’s leading enterprise cloud vendor as well, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says he’s going to “win” the market before someone else …
EMC flirts with HP & Dell in rumored $132bn Mega-Merger
Rumors of a mega-merger between storage giant EMC Corp., and rival firms Dell Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, have emerged in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Citing its usual “people familiar with the matter,” the WSJ says EMC is under enormous pressure from …
Big ‘Mobile Phone’ Data predicts crimes before they happen
While it’s true that crime can occur anywhere and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, it’s still possible to find patterns in the data. Thus, while it can be difficult to predict if a specific individual is likely to commit a …
Google abandons ‘forced’ sign-up policy for Google+
Google seems to have relented on its tough policy towards its not-so-popular social network Google+. Back in July, Google announced users no longer have to use their real names on the site, and now it’s decided to end its policy of ‘forcing’ …
What’s next for Infor after the cloud? You guessed it – Big Data | #Inforum2014
Infor Inc. has achieved something that the likes of Oracle Corp. and SAP could only dream of. That is, it’s successfully transformed itself into a fully-fledged cloud-based software solutions company that, according to Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, “has delivered” on its …