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Google seems to have relented on its tough policy towards its not-so-popular social network Google+. Back in July, Google announced users no longer have to use their real names on the site, and now it’s decided to end its policy of ‘forcing’ …
What’s next for Infor after the cloud? You guessed it – Big Data | #Inforum2014
Infor Inc. has achieved something that the likes of Oracle Corp. and SAP could only dream of. That is, it’s successfully transformed itself into a fully-fledged cloud-based software solutions company that, according to Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang, “has delivered” on its …
The State of Hadoop 2014: Who’s using it and why
Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway. But how big is Hadoop …
No change at Oracle: Ellison still holds an iron grip over HIS company
Larry Ellison may have stepped down as CEO of Oracle Corp., but he’s still running things from behind the scenes. Ellison, officially the third-richest man in the US after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had just $2,000 when he co-founded Oracle in …
SAP suddenly becomes a ‘cloud giant’ with $8bn Concur acquisition
Enterprise software giant SAP SE has just grown new legs following the acquisition of enterprise travel and business expense management software maker Concur Technologies in a massive $8.3 billion deal. The Germany-based firm announced it’ll pay $129 a share to buy out …
VMware offers ‘Safe Passage’ to AirWatch
VMware raised a few eyebrows earlier this year when it splurged over a billion dollars on AirWatch, a company that makes mobile device management (MDM) software. At the time many were asking why? After all, VMware does virtualization of servers, networks and …
Canonical & AMD team up with OpenStack-on-a-rack
Ubuntu vendor Canonical has teamed up with AMD to make it easier for users to deploy an OpenStack private cloud. The companies have cobbled together AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server Edition, and OpenStack together with a bunch of tools that …
MapR 4.0.1 release lets you ‘Drill’ into your Big Data
MapR has just added Apache Drill to its Hadoop distro, giving its customers a new way to use SQL to query their Big Data stores. The open-source Drill project is one that’s been largely developed by MapR itself. The aim was to …
IBM brings Big Data to the masses with Watson Analytics
In the three years since IBM’s Watson computer destroyed the two all-time Jeopardy! champions in an exhibition game, many people have wondered how IBM will bring the Watson question answering technology to market. Now those questions are being answered. IBM yesterday released a …
Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced it’s no longer planning to sell itself or merge with another company after it failed to receive any offers ‘worthy’ enough. Rackspace announced it was considering “inbound strategic proposals” last May when it hired the …