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Microsoft announces Apache Spark connector for Azure database

By Mike Wheatley Mar 16, 2017

Microsoft Corp. wants its Azure cloud to be the go-to platform for big data services. To that end, on Wednesday it made available a new Apache Spark connector for its DocumentDB database. The announcement…

Cloud

Cloud wars: Amazon hits back at Google with more flexible pricing

By Mike Wheatley Mar 16, 2017

Google Inc. reignited the cloud price wars last week at its Next cloud conference when it announced “committed use discounts” for customers that commit to a one- or three-year contract to use its virtual computers.…

Apps

Popular teen quiz app Wishbone hacked, exposing 2.2 million email addresses

By Duncan Riley Mar 16, 2017

Wishbone, a quiz app popular with teenagers, has been hacked, exposing the details of 2.2 million email addresses and some 287,000 mobile phone numbers being stolen. Created by Science Mobile LLC, Wishbone has been downloaded between…

Cloud

Docker open-sources its container core to the Cloud Native Computing Federation

By Mike Wheatley Mar 15, 2017

Fulfilling a promise made last December, Docker Inc. on Wednesday donated containerd, a core piece of the Docker runtime engine, to the Cloud Native Computing Federation. The containerd runtime is used as a method…

Big Data

Bridging legacy and next-gen systems in the big data age

By Gabriel Pesek Mar 15, 2017

As the methods for collecting, organizing and analyzing colossal amounts of business data continue to diversify, some of the former champions of the big data world have found their glory fading, while fresh challengers…

Cloud

Forget reinventing the wheel, companies get agile by embracing abstraction

By Nelson Williams Mar 15, 2017

There’s a strange sickness in the tech world. It loves to reinvent the wheel. Yet, if the real goal is shipping product, there’s no reason to build up from raw code. In development, abstraction layers…

Infra

Two Russian agents, two others indicted in massive 2014 Yahoo hack

By Duncan Riley Mar 15, 2017

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted four people, two of whom are alleged to work for the Russian FSB intelligence agency, over the 2014 hack of Yahoo Inc. In its indictment filing, the DOJ alleged that…

Big Data

Monetizing muck: Can metadata see into data lakes and extract value?

By R. Danes Mar 15, 2017

Metadata is earning shout-outs at BigData SV 2017 in San Jose, CA, as a practical first step to monetizing massive, murky data lakes. “This old world where IT would prepare the data and then I…

Big Data

Monetizing big data with Hadoop as a Service: SAP’s story

By Marlene Den Bleyker Mar 15, 2017

Back in September 2016, SAP SE scooped up a company called Altiscale Inc. to add high-performance and scalability to its Big Data-as-a-Service solution. Altiscale brought a highly optimized cloud infrastructure that offers Hadoop as a…

Big Data

Going real-time in the war against malware

By Nelson Williams Mar 15, 2017

Horrible things lurk on the internet, and they all want to live inside a company’s computer network. Viruses, malware, ransomware and more are out there, and all good people wage war against these threats.…

explore news

Microsoft announces Apache Spark connector for Azure database

Popular teen quiz app Wishbone hacked, exposing 2.2 million email addresses

Docker open-sources its container core to the Cloud Native Computing Federation

Bridging legacy and next-gen systems in the big data age

Two Russian agents, two others indicted in massive 2014 Yahoo hack

Monetizing muck: Can metadata see into data lakes and extract value?

Monetizing big data with Hadoop as a Service: SAP’s story

Going real-time in the war against malware

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