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ARM builds a free OS for the Internet of Things to block out rivals
ARM Holdings Inc., the company behind 99 percent of the world’s mobile chips, is pushing up the competitive food chain with a free operating system for embedded processors that aims to solidify its grip on the burgeoning connected universe and open a lucrative new revenue stream in the process. The pivot comes as arch-rival Intel ...
What you missed in Big Data: real-time analytics racing forward in the enterprise
Real-time processing has been the dominant theme in the analytics world this past week, with several major updates from different parts of the industry adding up to provide a sudden burst of momentum for the fast-emerging paradigm. It all started when Apache Storm graduated from incubation to take its place among the top-level projects that ...
What you missed in Cloud: the biggest names in enterprise tech advance on Amazon’s turf
The war over the public cloud moved up several notches in the past week after top enterprise vendors made a series of landmark advances that significantly raise the stakes for market leader Amazon.com Inc. as it works to capture a bigger slice of enterprise technology spending. Cisco Systems Inc. set the pace on Monday with ...
CrowdChat empowers CSC to drive unprecedented engagement, says CTO | #OOW14
Until not so long ago, communications between senior management and the broader workforce at global firms such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) only went one way, resulting in a rigid atmosphere that didn’t afford the rank and file an active voice in their work. The advent of social media opened up a channel for dialogue ...
Bigwigs unite to promote open standards for telco networks
Déjà vu struck the networking industry on Tuesday when a coalition of leading vendors declared that they’ve joined forces under the banner of The Linux Foundation to develop open standards meant to accelerate the adoption of next generation solutions. The elevator pitch is practically identical to that of the OpenDaylight Project the same suppliers launched ...
After a year of incubation, Apache welcomes Storm into the Hadoop family
Real-time analysis in Hadoop moved a step closer to enterprise reality on Monday after the Apache Software Foundation promoted Storm to a top-level project. The status upgrade charts a future for the continued development of the platform under the same community umbrella that governs the batch processing framework and its sprawling component ecosystem. Like most ...
Oracle OpenWorld day 2: Mobile and verticals take center stage | #OOW14
After unloading the bulk of the updates to its core portfolio during the opening day of OpenWorld 2014, Oracle Corp. is shifting gears with a second batch of product reveals that moves the focus beyond traditional corporate apps to mobile workers, developers and vertical industries. . Mobile-first The poster child for the new direction is ...
The state of OpenStack’s community, according to the Foundation’s head | #OpenStackSV
Four years after launch, OpenStack is finally starting to see the first user communities forming, according to the head of the industry consortium that oversees the development of the fast-emerging cloud framework. In his latest appearance on theCUBE during a recent community gathering at the Computer History Museum, OpenStack Foundation executive director hailed the trend ...
Three months late and $200M short, IBM-Lenovo server deal finally looks to be closing
Lenovo Group Ltd. is on course to becoming the world’s third largest supplier of commodity servers after regulators signed off on a multi-billion dollar deal that will see it take over IBM’s x86 business. The acquisition is expected to complete on Wednesday, three months behind the expected schedule outlined when the companies first revealed plans ...
Oracle completes cloud pivot by releasing flagship products as services | #OOW14
After years of trying to ignore the trend into non-existence, Oracle Corp is finally giving up on swimming against the cloud computing current and following arch-rivals SAP SE and IBM in making its flagship software products available on a service basis. Now that it’s embraced the new reality of technology deployment, the company has no ...