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Joab Jackson wrote Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

4 weeks 6 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Google makes Go faster

Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors.

5 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote Microsoft rushes Explorer 8 patch release

Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month.

5 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

5 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.

5 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

5 weeks 5 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Facebook to design an open source switch

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

6 weeks 2 hours ago
Joab Jackson wrote VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.

6 weeks 3 hours ago
Joab Jackson wrote Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market.

6 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote Dell boosts cloud portfolio with Enstratius buy

Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments.

6 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Mozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec

The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate the need for using plug-ins to view video in a browser.

6 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

MapR uses the LucidWorks Search while Cloudera releases its SQL-compliant Impala.

7 weeks 3 hours ago
Joab Jackson wrote VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineering firm.

7 weeks 3 hours ago
Joab Jackson wrote 10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.

7 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote Novell offers mobile file sharing for the enterprise

In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive.

7 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote IBM launches an appliance for the 'Internet of things'

Preparing its customers to join the emerging 'Internet of things', IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages

7 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Joomla finally gets built-in tagging

Administrators of the Joomla blogging platform and content management system can now tag their content so it will be better indexed and automatically routed to the correct locations on their websites.

7 weeks 5 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote OASIS: MQTT to be the protocol for the Internet of Things

Setting the foundation for what may be a multitrillion-dollar marketplace, OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) has declared MQTT (the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) as its messaging protocol of choice for the emerging Internet of Things.

7 weeks 5 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote ODCA: Virtual machines inching to portability

While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).

7 weeks 6 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Pivotal launched from VMware, EMC technologies

Making good on a promise made in December, VMware and parent company EMC have launched a new company, called Pivotal, to offer an enterprise-ready data analysis platform as a service (PaaS) based on software from both companies.

8 weeks 2 min ago
Joab Jackson wrote MuleSoft catches the API fever, buys ProgrammableWeb

Following in the footsteps of Intel and CA Technologies, open source middleware provider MuleSoft has acquired a vendor of API (Application Programming Interface) services and technologies, ProgrammableWeb.

8 weeks 1 day ago
Joab Jackson wrote CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API smarts

CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).

8 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote IBM snatches UrbanCode for DevOps prowess

Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice of rapid software development called devops.

8 weeks 2 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote IBM's revenue deflated in 2013's first quarter

Unable to close a number of large mainframe and software deals by the end of the quarter, IBM has reported a 5 percent decline in revenue to US$23.4 billion for the first quarter of 2013.

8 weeks 6 days ago
Joab Jackson wrote Intel acquires Mashery for planned services suite

Intel has purchased Mashery, a provider or API management tools, in the chip maker's latest move to expand into software and services.

9 weeks 1 hour ago