Big Data: The Good, Bad and Ugly
It isn’t often that a confluence of news stories leads to an editorial epiphany, as it has this week. Good epiphanies are hard to find; I’m lucky if I get one or two a…
Storing Data as DNA, Harvard Researchers Say Test Tubes Can Contain “the whole Internet”
Test tube data. It may sound strange, now, but genomics researcher and serial entrepreneur, George Church, told the Wall Street Journal encoding data in DNA “could be the wave of the future” for archives.…
The Public and the Personal Cloud in the Spotlight This Week
VMworld 2012 is coming later this month, and VMware is already starting to up its cloud play to give customers plenty to talk about ahead of the gathering. This week the virtualization firm unveiled…
How IBM’s Acquisition of Texas Memory Affects the Too-Hot Flash Market
IBM acquired the privately-held Texas Memory Systems in a move that could drive the other big vendors to dive right into the flash scene. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS is a…
Big Data’s Biggest Investors
By Anthony Coln
With the growth in popularity of Big Data on the scene, it is no surprise that venture capitalists are now turning their attention to the field. Existing companies are realizing the value of the…
“All media fails, but Cloud backup is forever,” A Trip Down Memory Lane for Storage Media [Infographic]
However, popular new forms of storage media become, affording ease of use, portability and data security, they have their challenges and, ultimately, become “a useless piece of plastic, tape or metal.” Crashplan’s recent infographic,…
Windows 8 Becomes Available for MSDN, TechNet Subscribers
By Isha Suri
Windows 8 is now available on the Microsoft Developer Network Platform and the subscribers of TechNet. While most developers have been eagerly waiting for this Windows update, some techies reveal that there is no…
Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit Riddled With Vulnerabilities
A security vendor has turned the tables on malicious hackers by releasing details of a vulnerability in a popular toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate websites. The toolkit…
Introducing GreenHopper 6 for Advancing Agile
By Isha Suri
Agility is what drives the IT world. Be Silicon Valley or any corner of the world, Agile is the key to success for software developers. Here we are introducing the GreenHopper 6, the latest…
Big Data Hadoop Death Match – Again But – Hadoop Era is Different from Linux Era
By John Furrier
Matt Asay, VP of big data cloud startup called Nodeable, writes a post today titled “Becoming Red Hat: Cloudera & Hortonworks Big Data Death Match”. He grabbed that headline from a link to our…