The Confederate flag purge just went digital
The purge of all items that have anything to do with the Confederate flag has made the leap to the digital realm. Ever since the Charleston, South Carolina shooting that took place last week,…
How CloudFlare understands 4 million lines of logs a second to thwart attackers
By Kyt Dotson
At four million log lines a second, CloudFlare, Inc. sees a great deal of traffic. So much traffic, in fact, that it’s impossible to digest without some sort of Big Data solution and filtering…
Apple is removing Civil War games that feature the Confederate flag
By Eric David
It looks like Apple has become the latest corporation to jump on the free PR bandwagon by dropping Civil War games from the AppStore if they feature the Confederate flag—the one people recognize anyway. Yes,…
Oracle Exadata available on subscription basis: 1/10th cost of AWS | #datacenter
Penny Avril, Oracle VP of Product Management, is excited by the possibilities for the Exadata Database Machine provided by the fully integrated Oracle PaaS. “Now Exadata is available on a subscription basis; it is…
Collaboration and engagement = Great customer experience | #RHSummit
Great customer experience should involve collaboration and engagement, according to Marco Bill-Peter, VP of Customer Experience and Engagement for Red Hat, Inc. “We made Red Hat consumable for the enterprise, but we also interact…
Oracle PaaS links Cloud and on-prem offering with completely integrated services | #datacenter
“We want to be the PaaS that doesn’t simply provide Oracle technology, but our competition’s technology as well.” Hot on the heels of Larry Ellison’s “breathtaking announcement” about the new hybrid Cloud management capabilities…
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Redis Labs (ahem) caches in on NoSQL craze with $15 million funding round
The funding train that has been making stops around the database world lately officially arrived in the caching segment this morning after Redis Labs Inc. announced a $15 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures…
Smart farms get sensors to manage water in droughts
This week’s Smart City roundup features an agricultural tech company’s solution for droughts, and two smart office solutions raising funds to expand their operations. CropX delivers water management solution According to a report from the…
24 major computer breaches in 30-day period. Time to get real.
By John McAfee
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack has acted as a smokescreen to mask a far broader problem that has occurred in the past 30 days. Here’s the full story in headlines (those in…
Dying Light dev spoofs Destiny’s Red Bull-exclusive DLC promo
By Eric David
Destiny publisher Activision Publishing Inc. announced on Wednesday that it would be partnering with Red Bull to offer a timed-exclusive DLC mission through a code that would printed on cans of the energy drink, but some…