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May 3, 2012
A growing throng of Open Compute Project (OCP) disciples converged on Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, Texas this week to overturn the established sixty-year-old EIA 310-D rack standard inherited from railroad signaling relays and telephone switching and in its place substitute Open Rack, the very first standard for data centers, especially big hyper-scale data centers [...]
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April 20, 2012
Rackspace, which wants to be the “Linux of the cloud” mimicking the now billion-dollar-a-year Red Hat, said Monday that it’s “drawing a line in the sand against cloud providers.” Everyone agrees it has Amazon, particularly, and VMware, to a certain extent, in mind. However, what’ll probably end up happening is that Red Hat, which has [...]
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April 6, 2012
Citrix Tuesday went into competition with the vaunted OpenStack. First, it dumped its OpenStack distribution, Project Olympus, in the garbage. Then it took CloudStack, an asset it spent somewhere between $200 million and $250 million to acquire nine months ago, and turned it over lock, stock and every last shred of legally unfettered proprietary code [...]
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March 30, 2012
The Obama Administration Thursday unveiled a Big Data Research and Development Initiative that will see the six federal agencies and departments put $200 million or more into Big Data R&D. These new commitments are supposed to improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize and glean discoveries from huge volumes of digital data. Dr. [...]
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March 2, 2012
AMD Buys SeaMicro Red Hat Sued for Patent Infringement Windows 8 Consumer Preview Arrives Apple Wins Second Injunction against MMI Oracle’s Case against SAP To Be Retried in June RightScale To Leverage New BFF Equinix Ex-HP Cloud VP To Run Codero Yahoo Demands Facebook License its Patents or Else iPad 3 Launch Looks Set for [...]
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February 24, 2012
Teradata, once famous for massaging huge classical databases so Wal-Mart, say, could stock just so many navy blue whatevers, has teamed up with Hortonworks, the months-old Yahoo-spun off open source Apache Hadoop supporter, so they can push Hadoop-leveraging Big Data analytics together. The old-line Big Data house already has an alliance with Cloudera, the first-to-market [...]
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February 17, 2012
A Tel Aviv start-up called Porticor that’s just hit the radar says it’s got a way to secure the cloud, any cloud. Fancy that, a trustworthy cloud. And Porticor delivers its data encryption solution to IaaS and PaaS users through the cloud in minutes. Fancy that. It’s supposed to solve the biggest challenge for data [...]
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February 2, 2012
SeaMicro, the ambitious start-up that has been building so-called microservers out of low-power Intel Atom chips, has started building microservers out of low-voltage quad-core Intel Xeon chips using the same architecture its Atom systems use. The development is called the SeaMicro SM10000-XE. Needless to say, it’s the first fabric-based Xeon microserver ever made. It’s also [...]
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January 20, 2012
Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware AWS Offers Free Windows Instances Piston Delivers First OpenStack-Based Cloud OS AWS Fields DynamoDB Yang Quits Yahoo RIM Supposedly Up for Sale; Samsung Touted as Possible Buyer Apple Sues Samsung Again Ex-US CIO Joins Salesforce.com Flexiant Positioning for Growth HP Gets New Chief Strategist AppDynamics Gets [...]
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December 5, 2011
Egnyte wants you to bury your file servers – their day is over – and now it claims you can throw your FTP servers into the hole too like they were grave goods to be discovered and wondered over by some next-century archeologist. In their place Egnyte (given the silly way we spell things you’re [...]
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