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Symantec does the splits: One for security, another for storage
Another day, another Silicon Valley giant does the splits. This time it’s the turn of Symantec Corp., which has just confirmed it’s planning to split itself into two distinct brands: one focused on security, and another focused on information management. Symantec’s announcement is the latest in a spate of multi-billion dollar mega-corporation restructuring moves over ...
Cisco denies it’s planning to bail out on VCE
Cisco Systems Inc., has been denying reports that it’s about to limit its involvement with the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE), but the direction its various backers are moving in does suggest there’s more to this than mere speculation. VCE is a converged systems company backed by Cisco, EMC and VMware. Its main product line ...
Teredata loops into Cloudera’s Hadoop
Data warehouse firm Teredata Corp. is jumping into Hadoop again, only this time round it’s teaming up with Cloudera Inc. at the same time as it launches its new Hadoop cloud service. The biggest news is Teredata’s partnership with Cloudera. Up until now its enjoyed a very close integration with Cloudera’s rival Hortonworks, and so ...
A whole lot of Splunk: Big Data visualization comes of age
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the mass of Big Data floating around inside your organization, you could do a whole lot worse than feeding it to Splunk Inc.. One of the biggest takeaways from this year’s Splunk.2014 Conf was just how vast the potential uses cases of the platform are. There’s so many uses in ...
EMC unveils fully integrated ‘virtualized’ data center for hybrid clouds
EMC corp. might be under pressure to break itself up into bits and pieces, but that hasn’t stopped it from pushing ahead with its federation strategy. Today, it’s just launched its Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution, the first of five radically new ‘federation solutions’ it hopes will reinvent enterprise IT. The Federation SDDC draws upon ...
Elliot Management publicly urges EMC to spin off VMware
Activist investment firm Elliot Management Corp. has written a open letter urging EMC to break up its Federation of companies by selling off VMware Inc. Elliot Management is believed to have accumulated a 2.2 percent stake in EMC, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s push to break up the legacy storage giant comes at ...
Hacked off with JP Morgan Chase: Consumers need to be vigilant
Last night it was reported that telecoms operator AT&T had fallen victim to a serious data breach that left approximately 1,600 of its customers exposed. It might seem like a small number, but it’s the latest in a long line of serious data breaches that consumers need to worry about, and comes less than a ...
Docker snaps up testing tools startup Koality
Red hot container startup Docker Inc. has bagged another acquisition in the form of Koality, an even smaller startup that builds development and testing tools, for an undisclosed fee. As a result of the deal, Koality’s four-man team will move into Docker’s headquarters to help it build out its Docker Hub tools. Koality becomes Docker’s ...
Oracle says DBAs will need to recertify before this time next year
Holders of Oracle’s database certifications will soon need to recertify if they want to continue calling themselves experts. Oracle explains away the policy change as thus: “Our new policy requires you as an Oracle Database certification holder to demonstrate your knowledge with the most recent trends, techniques and best practices in Oracle Database technology”. In ...
Overstock.com builds a decentralized, ‘Bitcoin-like’ stock exchange
Few big companies have expressed as much optimism about Bitcoin as the online retail giant Overstock.com, which became the first major retailer in the world to start accepting Bitcoin as payments for its goods earlier this year. The driving force behind that move was none other than Overstock.com’s Bitcoin-loving CEO Patrick Byrne, who followed up ...