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Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things
Dell Inc. is looking to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with the expertise of more than two dozen partners, including Microsoft and SAP SE. The company launched its IoT business unit just last year, introducing its new gateway device that’s able to collect, aggregate and analyze the enormous wave of data that billions ...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich lays out his vision of the future
Last week was a pretty bad one for Intel, which saw its share price decline in the wake of news that it’s to layoff 12,000 employees, or about 11 percent of its total workforce, but that hasn’t hurt company CEO Brian Krzanich’s optimism one little bit. In a blog posted yesterday, the CEO attempted to ...
Dell’s government cloud services get a boost with FedRAMP certification
Dell Inc. has had its government cloud officially certified to show it meets federal cloud security standards, which should make it a lot easier for the company to start winning business from federal agencies. Dell joins a fairly short list of certification cloud providers that can now sell their wares to U.S. agencies without any ...
Spark rival Apache Apex hits top-level status
Apache Apex was yesterday moved up to become the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s latest top-level project. Apache Apex is an open-source stream and batch processing platform that’s compatible with HDFS and YARN, runs in-memory, and offers enhanced event processing and fault tolerance capabilities. Readers may be familiar with the name “Apex”, because the project started ...
Fake cyberattackers rake in over $100,000 with empty threats
It turns out you don’t even need to be a hacker to make a nice living from cybercrime. Instead, all you need to do is pretend to be one. An enterprising extortionist appears to have stolen the identity of a notorious hacking group that came to attention late last year, using their ‘brand’ to extort ...
Cloud control: OpenStack offers first admin certificatication
OpenStack works great – but only if you know what you’re doing. To ensure companies can get hold of people with the right stuff, it’s lifting the lid off of a new certification program. Called the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam, it’s supposed to validate the skills cloud admins need to setup and manage OpenStack ...
Security is becoming less of a concern for the software-defined data center
Many proponents of the software-defined data center (SDDC) believe this is the year that it will gain significant traction on its path to becoming a permanent fixture among larger enterprises. One of the main reasons for this optimism is the belief that security is becoming less of a barrier to adoption. That might be the ...
Fears grow over the size of Dell’s debt once EMC acquisition goes through
Dell Inc.’s already extremely convoluted acquisition of EMC Corp. could be about to get even more so, according to new reports. According to a Wall Street Journal report last week, Dell may be faced with paying “at least” ten percent interest in order to sell $9 billion worth of unsecured junk bonds in order to ...
Google & Microsoft agree to stop squabbling like kids
Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to stop squabbling about “regulations”, according to a report in The Register. The report notes that the two rivals have been battling it out for years, using proxies and sometimes even direct attacks on each other in a bid to get government regulators to investigate each other, as part ...
Ceph unveils v10.2.0 Jewel, the “foundation” of its next LTS release
Red Hat Inc. has just rolled out an important new release of its software-defined object storage software Ceph, which it says will be the “foundation for the next long-term stable release”. The aim of Ceph is to create a totally reliable storage system that has no single point of failure. This is done by spreading ...