EMC boosts its hybrid cloud with raft of new upgrades
EMC has announced a raft of new upgrades to its VMAX family of systems and its XtremIO services, and its Isilon OneFS platform at a special event in London today. The announcements were made…
IBM battles Beijing’s smog with Big Data
China’s well known for its pollution problem, and few cities are more notorious than its capital Beijing, where smog and dust is believed to be the cause of thousands of premature deaths each year.…
Coinport makes transparency its business
Before the demise of Mt.Gox, it was the most popular and widely used Bitcoin exchange, which makes what happened to it all the more surprising. Of course hackers were blamed for the collapse of…
Bitcoin to introduce ‘floating’ fees to speed up transactions
Bitcoin’s chief scientist Gavin Andresen has taken to the Bitcoin Foundation’s blog to outline new ‘floating transaction fees’ that will be introduced in the Bitcoin Core 0.10 release. In his post, Andresen writes that…
Red Hat clone CentOS-7 looks just like RHEL 7
The latest update of CentOS, the free community edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has just been released, according to posts on the official CentOS blog. CentOS version 7 if the first iteration of…
The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies
By Kyt Dotson
The first generation of space exploration had us glued to our TV screens watching the fruits of billions of dollars in government investment and the work of some of the world’s finest scientific minds.…
Weekly Cloud review: startup funding and hyperscale data centers
The scalability, performance and operational efficiencies afforded by the hyperscale model employed today in the world’s largest data centers are slowly but surely being brought into the reach of traditional enterprises, one open-source project…
Smart World Weekly : Quirky homes, robot journalists + more
This week’s Smart World Series features quirky solutions for the smart home, a new health service for your smartwatch, an event to debunk the myths surrounding smart city efforts, and robot journalists. For those…
NSA’s XKEYSCORE dissected: All Tor users marked as ‘extremists’
Anyone trying to protect themselves from the NSA’s surveillance might well be shooting themselves in the foot. An investigation by German researchers has stumbled upon a rule in the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program that allows…
Oracle beefs up virtualization manager with new update
Oracle VM has received an update that looks to deliver enterprise scale performance enhancements for x86 and SPARC architectures while extending support for both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads. Oracle’s server virtualization platform for x86…