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Yahoo just made deep learning easier with CaffeOnSpark
Yahoo! Inc., is getting into the artificial intelligence (AI) game with the release of new internally-built software under an open-source license. Called CaffeOnSpark, the software is able to perform ‘deep learning’ on the vast ocean of data kept in Yahoo’s Hadoop file system. Now, the company has made it available on GitHub for everyone to ...
Martin Casado quits VMware to join Andreessen Horowitz
VMware Inc. executive Martin Casado, who’s currently in charge of its NSX software-defined networking business unit, is to leave the company to become a general partner at well known venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. VMware’s NSX business unit was created shortly after the networking giant acquired Casado’s former startup Nicira back in 2012 for what ...
Google launches Project Shield to crusade against DDoS attacks
Attacking your enemies online can be incredibly cheap. For those who know where to look, it can cost as little as $150 to launch a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on a website and take it offline. Well, Google happens to think that’s not fair, and so today it’s launching a new tool aimed ...
IBM said to be scoping out Bruce Schneier’s Resilient Systems
IBM is said to be out shopping for security experts and technology, and could be about to land incident response solution provider Resilient Systems, Inc., in a deal valued at $100 million. Business news website Xconomy cites “persons with knowledge of the matter” as its source of the rumors. The Register speculates the deal could ...
Nowhere to hide: Rapid7 uses behavior analytics + search to hunt down attackers
IT security has long been viewed as a game of cat and mouse, with security firms building increasingly sophisticated security systems designed to keep the bad guys out, and hackers constantly coming up with ingenious new ways to crack corporate security. The reality of course is that no matter how secure your systems supposedly are, ...
More than 4 billion people still offline, many have never heard of “the Internet”
The world is more connected than at any other point in history. These days it’s almost impossible to get on a bus or a subway or even walk into an office or school classroom without seeing someone playing with their smartphone, looking at cat pictures on Facebook, or tapping away like crazy while playing Candy ...
Dell/EMC merger gets FTC approval
Dell Inc. and EMC Corp.’s proposed merger moved one step closer to realization today when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave it the thumbs up following the expiry of the 1976 Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act-mandated 30-day waiting period. The terms of the HSR Act state that all corporate parties in a proposed merger must file ...
MapR & Ericsson bid to bolster communications with Big Data
MapR Technologies, Inc. is hoping to bring the power of Hadoop and Spark to the communications service provider market. The company is teaming up with Ericsson to develop offerings that leverage MapR’s Converged Data Platform to deliver more efficient, real-time data processing and analysis capabilities to the industry. The two companies aren’t announcing any products ...
What’s next for Apache Spark? Databricks drops a few hints
Databricks Inc., the leading commercial entity behind the Apache Spark, the open source cluster computing framework for Big Data processing, last week dropped a few hints about some of the new features we can expect to see in Spark 2.0. There’s still no concrete release date for Spark 2.0, although it’s widely expected to be ...
Google’s managed Hadoop and Spark service Cloud Dataproc goes live
Google’s Cloud Dataproc service, which has been in beta since last September, has finally hit general availability, the company said. Cloud Dataproc is a service that allows users take advantage of open-source data tools like Hadoop and Apache Spark for batch processing, querying, streaming, and machine learning. It comes with automation tools that allow clusters ...