Red Hat denies using ‘strongarm tactics’ on OpenStack
Red Hat has come out in denial of a report from the Wall Street Journal that it refuses to support users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux who also run non-Red Hat versions of OpenStack.…
Acxiom gets into Big Data ‘onboarding’ = cue more targeted ads
Internet users are about to see even more targeted ads that seem to know all about the products and services they might be interested in. That’s because Big Data services giant Acxion has just…
Mozilla bows to DRM demands so we can still watch Netflix
Mozilla has somewhat belatedly announced it’s going to add Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) to its Firefox browser to facilitate Digital Rights Management (DRM), even though the technology goes against its principle of a free…
Salesforce rigs up Heroku into its cloud
Quite a few people were scratching their heads when Salesforce.com added Heroku to its list of acquisitions. After all, why on earth would Salesforce with its Force.com SaaS platform feel the need to buy…
Oracle launches OpenStack missile at Red Hat’s cloud party
Oracle has just taken a major shot across the bow of Red Hat, announcing a preview of its own OpenStack build designed to run atop Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server. This comes following…
Patch Tuesday signals play time for Windows XP hackers
Those who’re still running Windows XP are about to face a substantially higher level of risk now that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday since end of support has passed. Yesterday’s update saw several critical vulnerabilities…
Don’t be scared of Big Data. Just be careful
Big Data is a pretty frightening concept for some. Companies and organizations collect vast amounts of data on people’s lives, where they live, their habits, their friends, and this can all be stored, accessed…
TechEd 2014: Microsoft steps up Azure hybrid cloud push
There’s been a lot of noise coming from the OpenStack Summit 2014 this week, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from betting on some enterprises choosing to move their workloads onto its own proprietary hybrid…
Red Hat drops ManageIQ into the OpenStack mix | #OpenStackSummit
Red Hat was one of the busier participants during day one of the OpenStack Summit 2014 in Atlanta yesterday, rolling out new code it hopes will drive adoption of OpenStack and advance cloud management.…
IBM unwraps Watson-powered push into software-defined storage
IBM has just lifted the lid off a new software-defined storage product whose technology is partly based on the Watson system used on the “Jeopardy” TV game show. The technology in question was devised…