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Databricks Cloud: Next Step For Spark
Databricks, the company behind the hot Apache Spark project, announced new tools, new partners, and new funding to power a cloud service on Amazon Web Services.
Facebook Researchers Toy With Emotions: Wake Up
A study about the effect of posts on Facebook users' emotions outraged some people. I call it a public service: Now you understand what ill-informed consent means.
CoreOS Unveils Linux Containers As A Service
New version of Linux for the containerization of cloud servers is now available on a monthly subscription basis.
Google Kills Quickoffice
Google will no longer offer Quickoffice mobile productivity suite to new users, urging mobile owners to adopt Google Drive apps instead.
Apple Kills Aperture Photo App
Apple will replace Aperture with OS X Yosemite's built-in Photos app, but the company says it remains committed to its professional customers.
Microsoft Explains Exchange Outage
Microsoft pledges to do better after frustrating customers with last week's Exchange Online and Lync Online outages.
You're Fast? Great. Are You Efficient?
Jumping hurdles at record speed doesn't mean much if you stroll between them. IT leaders must eliminate process-driven delays or trip on DevOps and SDN efforts.
Philips Seeks Bigger Role In Healthcare Market
The Dutch company partners with Salesforce.com, introduces a cloud-based platform to expand its role in the healthcare market.
Google I/O: Hello Dataflow, Goodbye MapReduce
Google introduces Dataflow to handle streams and batches of big data, replacing MapReduce and challenging other public cloud services.
Hortonworks Certifies Spark On YARN, Hadoop
Hortonworks catches up to Cloudera with YARN-managed implementation of Spark in-memory framework for machine learning on Hadoop.
Dell Focuses On Security
Dell made a flurry of security-minded announcements this week, highlighted by improvements to its Dropbox for Business integration.
Internet Of Things: New Architecture Needed
Today's Internet architecture isn't ready for the scale of what the IoT should become. Here's a proposal for something better.
Salesforce.com, Philips Launch Digital Healthcare Platform
Salesforce1 cloud platform will serve as development platform for patient-care apps using Philips health monitoring devices.
Google I/O: Android Interface, Cloud Advances Star
Day one of Google I/O lacked skydivers but delivered new APIs, tools, and connectivity to push Google's mobile device and cloud capabilities forward.
Cloud ROI: 4 Critical Considerations
The nature of pay-as-you-go makes the cost calculation seem easy. It's not, but it is more critical than ever
Joyent Joins Containers Debate
Joyent's SmartDataCenter 7 package offers on-premises provisioning and management of containers and virtual machines. Watch out, OpenStack?
Verizon Virtual Visits Enters Telehealth Market
Verizon launches telehealth service to insurers, employers, and health services.
Cloud Migration Turbulence Continues, Survey Says
Many companies are "flying blind" in their efforts to embrace the cloud, a VMware-sponsored survey says.
Microsoft Exchange Online Suffers Service Outage
Service disruptions with Microsoft's Exchange Online left many companies with no email on Tuesday.
MongoDB Debuts On Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine
MongoDB fuels cloud demand with popular, public-cloud alternatives to Amazon Web Services, IBM Softlayer.
Google I/O: Pressure Is On
Amazon, Apple, and Samsung all made moves this month to neutralize Google. Here are four things the Internet titan should do at Google I/O this week to fight back.
Aereo Vs. Broadcasters: 5 Questions For Supreme Court
Should accessing an antenna and a DVR through the cloud be treated as any different under the law than doing so in your own home?
Microsoft OneDrive: Cloud Storage Price Showdown
Microsoft has boosted cloud storage and dropped prices. Is OneDrive now the best deal in town?
Oracle Buys Mini Me In $5.3 Billion Micros Deal
Oracle nabs a software and hardware kingpin in hospitality and retail, but it won't do much for cloud growth.
Cloud Trends To Watch: Structure 2014
What's going on with jostling among Cloud Foundry, Docker, VMware, and Red Hat? Structure conference yielded several surprising conclusions.
Which IT Is Really Core? InformationWeek Video
Box's Aaron Levie, GM's Randy Mott, and others weigh in on the role of outsourcing, insourcing, cloud.
Oracle Turns Cloud Corner
Oracle ends fiscal year with double-digit cloud gain, flat software sales, and hardware gains. CEO Ellison sets sights on Salesforce.com.
Rackspace Touts Containers On Bare Metal Servers
Rackspace lets customers run Linux containers on bare metal servers for maximum efficiency. Customer Pantheon shares interesting results.
Microsoft Reveals Office 365 Public Roadmap
Microsoft unveils its Office 365 roadmap and First Release program to create a closer, more open relationship between the company and its customers.
Hybrid Clouds: What Are They Good For?
IT faces a high-stakes decision: Which workloads to run on public versus private infrastructure. See what 383 survey respondents have to say on the matter
Agriculture Dept. Turns To SDN
USDA's National Information Technology Center adopts software-defined networking in quest for "faster, better, cheaper" cloud services.
Amazon's Vogels: Sensitive Data Vs. Snowden Fear
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, at Structure 2014 conference, disputes notion that holders of sensitive data will reject cloud after Snowden revelations.
Cloud Contracts: 8 Questions To Ask
What should you look for in a cloud contract? What's hiding in cloud providers' service-level agreements and terms? Read our expert guide.
Amazon Fire: The Buy Phone
Or should we call it the Prime Phone? Amazon hopes its smartphone will tempt people to ditch Apple and Samsung for dedicated access to Amazon products.
Cloud Disaster Recovery: CIOs Must Lead
IT teams wary of public cloud often discount its value in disaster recovery. That does a disservice to the business.
Amazon, Google Spar Over SSDs In Cloud
Amazon makes solid state disks its default storage offering for running workloads in the cloud. Is Google ready to match that move?
10 More Powerful Facts About Big Data
How big is big data's impact? Check out part two of our fact fest on big data's trends and trials.
HP Takes Workday Under Its Wing
HP evolves from customer to Workday consultant and integrator, offering implementation services for its cloud-based HR applications.
Google+ Launches Premium Features For Apps Customers
New premium version of Google+ for Apps customers includes additional controls and features for the social network and video conferencing platform, Hangouts.
Microsoft Catapult: 2x Faster Bing Results
Microsoft's new data center technology promises to speed up Web services like Bing while keeping costs in check.
Amazon Phone Looks To Be AT&T Exclusive
It stands to reason that Amazon would have a single carrier partner for its first smartphone.
CloudHealth Finds Path To Amazon Savings
CloudHealth Technologies tracks usage of Amazon Web Services and recommends ways to improve service and cut costs.
Microsoft Office For iPad Vs. iWork Vs. Google
Microsoft's Office for iPad wins praise from productivity software users, but is it right for you? We compare the free alternatives from Apple and Google.
Playing Games With The Internet Of Things
For an IoT world to be a lucrative world, it needs to be a fun and rewarding. Here's how businesses can learn to play.
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