Today, corporations have the technical flexibility to customize the datacenter to better fit their long- and short-term business goals. They are no longer locked into legacy infrastructure upgrades as the singular or even the primary source of technical improvements. Adopting new technologies and new movements in computing styles are less likely to involve long waits ...Full article
User-friendly analytics tools with graphical presentation tools plus big data solutions and the ability to more easily search and track fiscal anomalies give financial crime fighters a much stronger arsenal in their ongoing battle against white collar crime. These offenses costs taxpayers up to $600 billion annually, but the complexities of these cases mean many ...Full article
Open source software development in general and Linux in particular have helped generate an estimated $5 billion in economic value, according to a new report by the Linux Foundation gauging the fruits of collaborative projects. In a report released Wednesday (Sept. 30), the Linux Foundation estimated that more than 115 million lines of code have ...Full article
Infamous felon Willie Sutton robbed his first bank in 1927 and went on to make illegitimate withdrawals of millions of dollars from some dozens of banks over two decades. Sutton preferred deception to fire power, infiltrating security details in a myriad of disguises – dressed as a guard, a police officer, a messenger, or window washer. ...Full article
As the National Strategic Computer Initiative broadens interest in high performance computing, it is imperative that advocates and adopters recognize increased visibility likely will raise the cybersecurity stakes, cautioned Altair's chief technology officer. After all, as high performance computing becomes more accessible to more business departments and more users, it grows exponentially more attractive – ...Full article
Microsoft filled in the details of its application container strategy with the unveiling of its Azure Container Service based on partnerships with Docker and datacenter OS and container orchestration specialist Mesosphere. Microsoft (MFST) initially announced plans to support Docker containers on Windows Server 2016 back in August during LinuxCon. Microsoft rolled out a package of ...Full article
The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs gives substance and alcohol abusers the tools they need to recover from once overpowering addictions. Yet the fast-growing treatment center's small IT team did not have the tools it needed to support physicians, psychiatrists, paramedics, and other staff at the rehabilitation provider's multiple locations. Over 20 years, the Watershed has ...Full article
Among the challenges to broader adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise are supporting multiple users and departments on a single cluster along with leveraging systems handling diverse workloads. Other hurdles include the efficient allocation of resources and costs across departments. Pepperdata, Sunnyvale, Calif., a specialist in real-time cluster optimization, proposes to tackle these barriers to ...Full article
Gartner identified it as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends to watch in 2015. IDC estimated the market will reach $8 billion by 2018. HP found a 222 percent ROI after fully transitioning to this framework. What do these statistics refer to? The software-defined datacenter, of course. As organizations try every old and new trick in ...Full article
Cisco Systems continues to expand its considerable presence in China despite growing friction between U.S. high-tech companies and the government of Chinese President Xi Jinping. On the eve of President Xi's visit to the U.S., Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins provided more details about a joint venture with Chinese cloud computing and datacenter company Inspur Group. ...Full article
Internet pioneer Larry Smarr is now spearheading an initiative to create a high-speed virtual super highway for big data. EnterpriseTech shares the details in a Q&A.Full article
Among the emerging use cases for cloud and other IT platforms is the digitization of health records, an application with strict regulatory guidelines but a crying need for modernization as the nature of healthcare delivery changes. Getting the digitization of healthcare and the medical records right is critical given the fact that, according to U.S. ...Full article
By enhancing the familiarity of SQL with capabilities that allow organizations to accelerate development cycles, streaming analytics, and time-to-market, VoltDB hopes to shine a light on enterprises' once "dark data." The company today released Version 5.6 of its in-memory operational database, which melds streaming analytics and transactions to support mission-critical, real-time applications. The latest version ...Full article
At the Cassandra Summit today, StackStorm unveiled an enterprise edition of its event-driven automation software, already in use by Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). The on-demand provider of video content is using StackStorm Enterprise Edition 1 release candidate for auto-remediation of its Cassandra environment, said Evan Powell, CEO and co-founder of StackStorm in an interview. Netflix, which ...Full article
The Office of Personnel Management disclosed today that 5.6 million fingerprints, not 1.1 million, were stolen when the federal agency was breached in July. At that time, 21.5 million individuals' Social Security numbers and other sensitive data was taken, reportedly by the Chinese government. But unlike credit cards and SSNs, fingerprints cannot be replaced once ...Full article
DataStax has augmented the latest release of its Cassandra distributed database with an open source, scale-out graph database capability. The upgrade coincides with a preview release of the latest version of Apache Cassandra that incorporates storage and developer improvements. Supplementing its drive to push the NoSQL database further into the enterprise, Santa Clara-based DataStax also ...Full article
Jim Keller, former chief architect of microprocessor cores at AMD, left the chip company for the second time last week to pursue other opportunities. Keller was in charge of the company’s next-generation x86 “Zen” cores, which take center stage in AMD’s roadmap and in its strategy to combat larger rival Intel. Not due out until ...Full article
The Hacking Team breach occurred over the summer, but enterprises should continue learning new lessons in cybersecurity and threats. Here, a malware analyst explores how some of the firm's software works and what it does.Full article
We’re number 1: At first that's good, a catchy slogan that could form the background of any presidential campaign. Unfortunately, the study by associate professor Adam Lankord at the University of Alabama, investigated which country had the most mass shootings between 1966 through 2012 and the United States far exceeded its peers with a whopping ...Full article
Gartner turned heads last year when it declared the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed “old dog” of data warehousing, EMC’s Bill Schmarzo vehemently agrees with that assessment, but says there is one simple secret to having success with a data lake project. Before we disclose Schmarzo’s secret formula ...Full article
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