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Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway. But how big is Hadoop …
No change at Oracle: Ellison still holds an iron grip over HIS company
Larry Ellison may have stepped down as CEO of Oracle Corp., but he’s still running things from behind the scenes. Ellison, officially the third-richest man in the US after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had just $2,000 when he co-founded Oracle in …
SAP suddenly becomes a ‘cloud giant’ with $8bn Concur acquisition
Enterprise software giant SAP SE has just grown new legs following the acquisition of enterprise travel and business expense management software maker Concur Technologies in a massive $8.3 billion deal. The Germany-based firm announced it’ll pay $129 a share to buy out …
VMware offers ‘Safe Passage’ to AirWatch
VMware raised a few eyebrows earlier this year when it splurged over a billion dollars on AirWatch, a company that makes mobile device management (MDM) software. At the time many were asking why? After all, VMware does virtualization of servers, networks and …
Canonical & AMD team up with OpenStack-on-a-rack
Ubuntu vendor Canonical has teamed up with AMD to make it easier for users to deploy an OpenStack private cloud. The companies have cobbled together AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server Edition, and OpenStack together with a bunch of tools that …
MapR 4.0.1 release lets you ‘Drill’ into your Big Data
MapR has just added Apache Drill to its Hadoop distro, giving its customers a new way to use SQL to query their Big Data stores. The open-source Drill project is one that’s been largely developed by MapR itself. The aim was to …
IBM brings Big Data to the masses with Watson Analytics
In the three years since IBM’s Watson computer destroyed the two all-time Jeopardy! champions in an exhibition game, many people have wondered how IBM will bring the Watson question answering technology to market. Now those questions are being answered. IBM yesterday released a …
Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced it’s no longer planning to sell itself or merge with another company after it failed to receive any offers ‘worthy’ enough. Rackspace announced it was considering “inbound strategic proposals” last May when it hired the …
IBM ranked as top dog in software-defined storage platforms niche
IDC has just published its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey, ranking IBM as the world’s top supplier of Software-defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P). SDS-P is described as ”a new functional market added to the total storage software market that covers …
Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data
EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The rumor came from Andrew Dauncey on The Odd …