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China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. might be close to completing the acquisition of struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry Limited – for real, this time – according to reports. Canada’s CBC News reports that Lenovo is in talks to snap up the ailing firm for …
Rackspace serves up Hadoop on bare-metal cloud platform
Rackspace Inc., burst into the Strata + Hadoop World conference yesterday with a unique solution to a Big Data problem an announcement that could massively impact Big Data. It’s just launched a new solution called the OnMetal Cloud Big Data Platform that …
Huawei & Accenture announce private cloud enterprise push
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., has formed a strategic alliance with Accenture Plc.., to develop better cloud services for telecommunications firms and the enterprise. Though the ink is still drying on their pact, the two firms are already engaged in “joint initiatives” …
OpenStack’s 10th release reflects heavy telco influence
OpenStack has just pushed out its tenth release, adding new elements that should make it a more viable option for telecommunications companies. Called Juno, it adds support for Network Function Virtualization (NFV), as well as new Big Data capabilities and more granular policy …
HP hops aboard VMware’s hyper-converged EVO:RAIL bandwagon
The VMworld roadshow has moved to Europe this week, where VMware Inc. has introduced Hewlett-Packard Company and Hitachi Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) as new hardware partner for its hyper-converged EVO:RAIL appliance. Launched at last month’s VMWorld event in San Francisco, EVO:RAIL was …
EMC, Pivotal release scale-out bundle for Hadoop data lakes
EMC Corp. and Pivotal Labs reckon that data lakes are becoming more popular as scalable repositories for Big Data analytics, and have released a new scale-out Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0 to address that need. Data lakes work much the same way …
Consumer organization asks Google to extend “right to be forgotten” to Americans
Consumer advocates are pushing for America to become like Europe and introduce a “right to be forgotten” on the Internet. The Consumer Watchdog organization has penned an open letter to Google, asking it to extend the controversial EU ruling to the United …
Apple & Facebook will pay female workers to keep their eggs ‘in the basket’
Silicon Valley has long been a fertile hunting ground for top technology talents, but Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., are putting a new spin on the meaning, by offering to freeze their female employees’ eggs so they can put off having kids …
SAP, IBM cozy up to offer HANA analytics on SoftLayer cloud
Enterprise giants IBM and SAP SE have announced a partnership to run SAP’s HANA in-memory data analytics platform atop Big Blue’s SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as well as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. HANA (High Performance Analytical Appliance) is in-memory, column-oriented relational …
Investors flock to tiny device that promises online anonymity
A new gadget with the potential to strike terror into the hearts of online marketers has just set off a crowdfunding frenzy on Kickstarter. The Anonabox is a tiny, 2.4 inch by 1.6 inch router that aims to anonymize online activity by …