Intel Fields Atom for Microservers Autonomy Was Shopped to Dell as Well as Oracle EMC Bows to Demand, Joins OpenStack Contingent Dell Declares OpenStack its Primary Cloud Platform Google To Settle FTC’s FRAND Complaint: Bloomberg Google Ends the Google Apps Free Lunch Cloudera Gets Another $65 Million To Grow On Google & Apple Reportedly Team [...]
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Heads up, kids, the Israeli cavalry is on the way. Tel Aviv-based Gizmox says it’s figured out how to salvage all those scads of Microsoft client/server desktop apps – pointedly the enterprise ones – transform them – relatively painlessly – into secured-by-design HTML5, and move them to the web, the cloud and mobile devices all [...]
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Nvidia Tuesday unveiled a VGX platform – reportedly the result of five years of effort – that it called the world’s first virtualized GPU meant to accelerate graphics from cloud computing centers. IT departments are supposed to use it to deliver virtualized desktops with the graphics and GPU performance of office PCs or workstations to [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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