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Microsoft upgrades Azure HDInsight, its Hadoop Big Data offering
Microsoft has beefed up its cloud-based Azure HDInsight Hadoop offering with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company claims will speed up Big Data queries by a factor of 25. Azure HDInsight is kind of managed Hadoop service that lets users deploy and manage clusters on the Azure Cloud. It’s offered in ...
Maxta rolls out limited free version of its hyperconverged storage software
Maxta Inc. is offering up a free but limited version of its hyperconverged, software-defined storage software. The company, which specializes in software-based hyperconvergence for enterprise storage systems, said a free download of its MxSP software is now available for “qualifying organizations” in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The freebie has been made available via Maxta’s ...
Report: Qualcomm wants to buy NXP Semiconductors for $30B
Smartphone semiconductor powerhouse Qualcomm Technologies Inc. could acquire rival firm NXP Semiconductors N.V. in “the next two to three months,” according to a report from the Wall Street Journal that cites people familiar with the matter. The value of the deal is speculated at $30 billion, which puts it in the same bracket as SoftBank Group ...
IBM brings AI to banking with Promontory Financial Group acquisition
IBM announced on Thursday it’s planning to acquire the financial and compliance consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, in order to bolster the financial regulatory expertise of its Watson cognitive computing platform. Promontory’s main line of work involves helping banks muddle their way through the minefield of regulatory rules and risk management requirements of the financial ...
Salesforce moves to block Microsoft’s ‘anticompetitive’ acquisition of LinkedIn
Salesforce.com Inc. is attempting to derail Microsoft’s proposed $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. The maker of customer relationship management and other software is urging the European Union to oppose the deal, saying the merger would be “anti-competitive” and give Microsoft an “unfair advantage.” The New York Times broke the story, quoting three people familiar with ...
Dell, HPE reveal systems for Microsoft’s forthcoming Azure Stack software
Dell Technologies Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) yesterday unveiled a bunch of new integrated systems and services for Microsoft’s upcoming Azure Stack software, in moves aimed at boosting each company’ hybrid cloud efforts. Azure Stack is a piece of software that will, when it’s finally released, allow organizations to replicate Microsoft’s Azure cloud in ...
Dell EMC sitting pretty atop growing converged systems market
The global converged systems market saw revenues grow by 12.1 percent year-over-year to just over $2.9 billion in the second quarter of this year, according to International Data Corp. (IDC). IDC said in its latest Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker that Q2 saw 1,693 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments, up 31.8 percent from a ...
New Apache project Spot taps machine learning to sniff out cyber threats
The Apache Software Foundation is now incubating a project backed by Cloudera Inc. and Intel Corp. that aims to bolster cyber security with Big Data analytics and machine learning. Previously known as the Open Network Insights (ONI) initiative, the project is now called Apache Spot, since it uses machine learning to sniff out bad traffic amongst ...
More Hadoop vendors back controversial Open Data Platform initiative
The controversial Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) has shied away from the spotlight in recent months, but yesterday announced that a number of prominent enterprise vendors have jumped onto its bandwagon. The ODPi announced that DataTorrent, IBM, Pivotal Software Inc., SAS, Syncsort Inc., WANdisco Plc. and Xavient Information Systems have all signed on to its interoperability ...
Kubernetes 1.4 promises to make container orchestration easier, more powerful
Google’s Kubernetes project is well on the way towards becoming the de facto standard for running containers at scale, and the release of Kubernetes 1.4 promises to cement its status as the top choice for most organizations. Kubernetes has already established a reputation for being more powerful than its closest rival, Docker Swarm, even though ...