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What you missed in Cloud: Upping the computing ante
As servers continue their increasingly precarious climb along the curve of Moore’s law, so do the major providers keep upping the ante on the cost-efficiency and power of their instances. Last week saw yet another milestone passed on that journey after Microsoft Corp. added a new type of virtual machine to its public cloud that is ...
LinkedIn open-sources internal tool to simplify machine learning projects
Only three days after previewing a slew of upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka, LinkedIn Inc. is adding another item to its open-source analytics repertoire with the release of a likewise internally-developed tool that promises to simplify machine learning initiatives. And in particular, coordination across the different stages of the project lifecycle. Work on large-scale recommendation systems ...
BlackBerry buys out arch-rival Good Technology for enterprise mobility dominance
The corporate device management space has gotten a little less crowded this morning with the announcement that BlackBerry Ltd. is acquiring one of its biggest rivals, Good Technology Inc., for $425 million in cash. The landmark deal positions the Canadian mobile giant at the very top of the enterprise mobility food chain. That’s thanks to the ...
Intel invests $50 million in quantum computing research
As Moore’s law becomes harder and harder to uphold, Intel Corp. is stepping up its efforts to find an alternative to conventional silicon chips that can keep up with the world’s growing demand for processing power. The latest pit stop in that pursuit is the Netherlands, where it’s investing $50 million into a local institute ...
Report: HP looking to sell off network security business ahead of split-up
Hewlett-Packard Co. has reportedly begun purging non-core assets ahead of its planned split-up later this year, with anonymous insiders claiming that the first casualty could be its little-known TippingPoint firewall business. The rumored divestment would mark the latest milestone in what has been a long and twisting journey for the division. The company of the ...
LinkedIn previews upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka
The engineering team at LinkedIn Inc. hasn’t been sitting idly since contributing its homegrown message broker to the open-source community three years ago. The volume of data flowing through its network has since ballooned to over 1.34 petabytes per week, which required making some major modifications that are slated to become available in the next ...
Syncsort open-sources Spark connector for mainframes
The clash between old and new gripping the analytics world moved up yet another notch this morning with the release of a connector from Syncsort Inc. that aims to make it easier for organizations to tap records in their mainframes using Apache Spark. It’s being made available under the same open-source license as the data ...
SAP debuts an in-memory query engine for Spark in renewed IoT push
While the who’s who of the industry are at San Francisco’s Moscone Center for VMworld 2015, SAP SE is throwing an event of its own just over a over a mile away to introduce a new tool that promises to help organizations take better advantage of Apache Spark. The launch comes as the competition likewise ...
Apple partners with Cisco to provide a wireless “fast lane” for corporate iPhones
The corporate network is about to get a lot faster for iOS users thanks to a new partnership between Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. that will see traffic from iPhones and iPads receive priority treatment from the latter’s widely-deployed switches. It’s the latest of the mobile giant’s efforts to strengthen its hold over the ...
Startup Reduxio launches a new kind of hybrid array that makes snapshots “obsolete”
Between the roughly half a dozen startups leading the transition towards flash storage and all the traditional vendors that have jumped aboard the bandwagon, there isn’t much room left for new contenders. But Reduxio Systems Inc. thinks that the industry could make do with another hybrid array. The venture-backed startup is entering the game with the HX ...
