Yahoo, which needs to turn a buck as well as focus on its own issues, is spinning out its Hadoop unit into an independent new company co-funded by Benchmark Capital called Hortonworks after the Dr. Seuss character Horton the Elephant. It’s a nice whimsical touch considering Hadoop is really a stuffed elephant who had his [...]
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Scott McNealy, often mistaken for one of Sun’s founders – technically he wasn’t but he was so identified with the company for so long people assume he was – has been hinting about a new start-up called WayIn on Twitter, according to GigaOm. Actually Twitter’s the way WayIn will launch if it sorta hasn’t already. [...]
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Advertised as an integration platform for the cloud, web and enterprise, MuleSoft has rolled out a public beta of Mule iON, a cloud-based iPaaS or newfangled Integration Platform-as-a-Service. It’s supposed to be the world’s first iPaaS for integrating and orchestrating cloud-ified SaaS applications with on-premise systems and it’s built on Mule’s applications, services and data [...]
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Novell’s acquisition by Attachmate, which hung on the $450 million purchase of around 882 of its patents and patent applications by the Microsoft-led CPTN consortium, can go through now that regulators on both sides of the pond figure they’ve tied CPTN’s hands. The Justice Department confirmed Wednesday morning that CPTN, which includes Oracle, EMC and [...]
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Clouds bring rain and rain means rust and so Iron Mountain, the seemingly promising cloud storage house – under pressure from a major stockholder after a nasty $54 million loss last year followed the company’s giddy $221 million gain in 2009- says it will be exiting commodity cloud storage by early 2013. It stopped taking [...]
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Facebook has been quietly working on building an energy-efficient data center at the lowest possible cost for a year or two and Thursday it open sourced the infrastructure it created under what it calls the Open Compute Project, figuring that many eyes might improve on it. “We are not the only ones who need the [...]
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Amazon Web Services has started selling single-tenant instances that run on dedicated hardware inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The classic definition of a cloud is multiple virtual machines on a server used by multiple tenants sharing the cost, but that definition doesn’t suit everybody’s security or governance needs so Amazon changed the definition. [...]
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Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Yahoo, all big network owners, said Monday that they have formed a standards-setting Open Networking Foundation (ONF) that’ll promote an approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN) that makes networks programmable like computers. They got 17 other companies to sign up including heavyweights like Cisco, Broadcom, Juniper Networks, [...]
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After taking heavy fire from Steve Jobs over Flash, Adobe Tuesday ran up a white flag and produced a so-called experimental Flash Professional-to-HTML 5 automatic conversion tool called Wallaby so Flash files can run on Apple’s otherwise forbidden iPad and iPhone. It will work initially on simple stuff like banner ads and animations and create [...]
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Fasten your seatbelts, folks, it may get to be a bumpy ride. Very late Friday – 9:30 at night in New York in fact, when Japan was dominating the news – Lawson Software said it had gotten an unsolicited $1.84 billion takeover offer from privately held Infor and its owner Golden Gate Capital. That was [...]
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