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Intel Uses Open-Source, OpenStack Cloud to Its Advantage
At LinuxCon, Dirk Hohndel, Intel's chief Linux and open-source technologist, explains why Intel is invested in open source and what his company is doing with the OpenStack cloud.
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IO Launches An OpenStack Cloud Running On Open Source Servers
IO, which is known for its modular data center designs and specialized data center management software, is getting into the cloud provider space with a new service called IO.Cloud. It’s very open at the foundational level, at least, running OpenStack software on Open Compute hardware. Read More »
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Is Accumulo The World’s Most Scalable Graph Store?
NSA just released some fascinating new data on Apache Accumulo performance as a massively scalable graph store. The data was presented last week at Carnegie Mellon University, and the abstract of the report reads: Read More »
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JKool LLC. Announces An Easy-To-Use, Open Source, SaaS Solution For Quickly Capturing The Business Value Of Big Data
jKool, LLC. today announced its new, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for analyzing Big Data in real time. jKool™ is designed to spot the patterns in data that lead to actionable insights...
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Johns Hopkins and VMware Forge Medical Records Mega-Cloud
Medical and IT researchers at Johns Hopkins University, healthcare application software supplier Harris Corp, and virtualization juggernaut VMware have teamed up to create a medical imaging cloud that they hope will become the central, secure repository for US citizens and the doctors who care for them. Read More »
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Joyent Partners With Canonical On Customized Ubuntu As A Cloud Service
Joyent, well-known on the cloud computing scene and a growing player in Big Data analytics, announced a partnership with Canonical today to provide customers with optimized and supported Ubuntu server images in the Joyent Cloud. Effectively, users will be able to leverage a Canonical-customized Ubuntu in the cloud. [...] Read More »
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Just How Closely Can The NSA Really Watch You?
Leaks that suggest the NSA is vacuuming up personal information from the phone records and online-service data of U.S. citizens have some people concerned about the prospect of an Orwellian surveillance state that can track our every move. Read More »
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Kaltura Nabs $25m From Mitsui, ORIX, Intel And More To Grow Its Open Source Video Platform Globally
Kaltura, the open source video platform that’s powering Wikipedia’s new HTML5 player, has announced a new $25 million funding round from new investors which include Mitsui & Co. Global Investment and ORIX Ventures, with participation from existing investors which include Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, .406 Ventures and Avalon Ventures. Read More »
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Larry Ponemon On Securing Regulated Data In Healthcare: Q&A
Though mobile applications that share files through the cloud such as Box and DropBox can be appealing to consumers, the Ponemon Institute has found that these types of applications can be unsafe in a clinical environment. [...] Read More »
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Lessons From AWS Part I: The Crush Of The Boa Constrictor
The cloud industry is often portrayed as a race between Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Compute Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure. The reality however, at least to date, is more like AWS and the also-rans. The lesson is scale and the classroom is Walmart. Read More »
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Lessons From AWS Part II: Is Open Source Lock-In Better?
In Part I, I drew comparisons between AWS and Walmart, and emphasized differentiation as the key component to compete with the 800-pound cloud gorilla. For over a decade, I have held that open source is the antidote to vendor lock-in and dis-innovation. In Part II, I maintain that advocacy, but with a caveat... Read More »
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Lessons from AWS Part III: Consumer Platform Drives Cloud Lead
There has been a lot of discussion, including Part I of this series, about Amazon’s relentless leverage of scale to drive down pricing in cloud services. What is much less talked about is how its consumer platform drives its cloud leadership. Read More »
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Libelium Releases Smart Water Sensors To Monitor Water Quality
At Mobile World Congress today, Libelium launched a Smart Water wireless sensor platform to simplify remote water quality monitoring. Equipped with multiple sensors that measure a dozen of the most relevant water quality parameters, Waspmote Smart Water is the first water quality-sensing platform to feature autonomous nodes that connect to the Cloud for real-time water control. Read More »
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Libelium Smart Logistics Sensors Add Real-Time Tracking And Monitoring
Libelium has released new Smart Logistics modules for Waspmote sensor nodes that provide position, sensing and transmission capabilities to enable real time tracking, via 3G, GPS and GPRS. These new modules for Waspmote and Plug & Sense! devices can read geolocation coordinates, collect extra sensor data such as humidity, luminosity, CO, CO2, temperature, or vibration, then send all the information to a web or Cloud server...
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