A cyber world in crisis
By John McAfee
In the late 60’s I dropped way too much acid. One of the lingering side effects of overindulgence in LSD is an infrequent occurrence of something called a “flashback”. It’s a situation where the…
By John McAfee
The Werx in McKinney: Coworking in a 105-year-old cotton mill
By Eric David
The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is a hub of coworking communities, with the largest concentrations of offices huddled around downtown Dallas and North Dallas, but there are a handful of outliers scattered around the greater…
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Vertical focus: MapR launches new specialized analytic workflows for Spark
The latest entry into the effort to simplify large-scale analytics has come from MapR Technologies Inc. in the form of new templates designed to automate the implementation of three key emerging use cases for…
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Datto extends data protection to new frontiers in massive update
With the enterprise technology conference season now in full swing, Datto Inc. is seizing the moment to join the fray. The backup and recovery powerhouse unleashed a barrage of new updates at its annual…
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Loggly adds derived fields to cloud-based monitoring service
The battle over machine-generated data is heating up with the introduction of an important new analytic capability from Loggly Inc. that promises to help administrators work faster through the vast and growing amounts of…
Mesosphere sets Spark flying on its Data Center Operating System
Mesosphere Inc. is partnering with Typesafe Inc. to provide support for an instance of Apache Spark that can be run atop of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) on the Amazon Web Services…
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Verilume bids to turn idle CPUs into ad hoc private clouds
By Paul Gillin
A Boston-based startup that proposes to bring the economics of public cloud infrastructure to the private data center launches today with an open source stack that it says can dramatically increase utilization of IT…
Google improves Sheet’s analytics, visualization features
Google is adding new visualization and analytical tools to its Sheets software to help business users to better understand the data on their spreadsheets. In its latest effort to bring Big Data analytics capabilities…
Deutsche Telekom teams up with Huawei to target Amazon in Europe
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom is looking to muscle in on Amazon turf in Europe, where it’s ramping up its cloud business by expanding its partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The telecoms firm said…
Apple’s iOS 9 vs. Google’s Android M: Release date, compatibility, features
By Collen Kriel
Apple and Google announced new versions of their respective mobile operating systems, iOS 9 and Android M within weeks of one another. You are either an Android user or a fan of iOS and…