Unicorns are real in open source | #OCPSummit15 recap
Open Compute might not be “a sexy topic,” said but it represents the best of “off the charts innovation,” said John Furrier during a live wrap-up segment with Jeff Frick on theCUBE at OCP…
Microsoft’s new Surface 3, you’re the one that I want
Microsoft is out with its newest Surface tablet, a machine that is a touch slower and a tad smaller than its current Surface Pro 3. The new Surface 3, announced Tuesday, is also less…
Twitter publicly launches free Storify-like filtering platform called Curator
By Eric David
Twitter Inc continues its trend of making its own alternatives to third party tools by announcing the release of Curator, which it says “enables media publishers to discover, curate and display the best Twitter…
Top HP exec Donatelli jumps ship to Oracle
Multiple sources have told Business Insider that Hewlett-Packard Co. executive David Donatelli has jumped ship to one of the company’s biggest rivals – Oracle Corp. – where he’s taken up an executive vice president…
How Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki went from a nobody to company president in 10 years
By Eric David
Despite having an annoying name to say out loud, FromSoftware, Inc. has become one of the most respected game developers over the past few years thanks to its harsh, unforgiving games like Dark Souls, which…
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Amazon’s new data-hungry D2 instances target Hadoop workloads
Amazon has added a new kind of instance to its public cloud that is specially optimized to handle the massive amounts of data stored and processed in the distributed analytic clusters powering modern decision-making…
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Wikibon urges enterprise CIOs to adopt a hybrid cloud manifesto
Enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud strategies in response to often-fragmented cloud efforts that have seen one group in the IT organization build private clouds on top of virtualized environments while others move existing…
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Running a Google Cloud Platform deployment? There’s an app for that
Google is opening a new front in the competition over the public cloud with the introduction of a mobile monitoring app to complement its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Google is playing catch-up in this area with…
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Alation exits stealth aiming to liberate enterprise data from silos
While some propose radical centralization as the answer to the inaccessibility of disparate information sources in the enterprise, Alation Inc. is offering a much simpler – and practical – approach to the challenge. The startup…
Mozilla launches free, online threat modelling tool
The Mozilla Foundation, best known for its popular Firefox web browser, has teamed up with a bunch of university graduates to develop a free, online ‘threat modelling’ tool it says can help system administrators…