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Microsoft announced the names of Windows 10 editions, along with some basic details about each.
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Improvements in performance, reliability, fault tolerance and simplicity will be featured in the upcoming Exchange Server 2016 from Microsoft.
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Microsoft released the Technical Preview 2 of Windows Server 2016, which features compute, networking and storage enhancements.
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Microsoft envisions a future with 1 billion devices of all types and form factors running its new Windows 10 OS.
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A new preview build of Windows 10 was released to select Microsoft testers, but it harbors several flaws that could prove problematic to users.
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Avaya is filling out its two-month-old software-defined networking (SDN) architecture with new Ethernet switches.
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A new survey of database deployments shows traditional, structured relational databases still reign among enterprises, irregardless of the publicity surrounding Hadoop-based Big Data approaches that feature NoSQL databases as a primary component.
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VMware Inc. is building out its container technologies and datacenter cloud footprint with two new open source projects.
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Enterprises using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 will see the database software reach the end of its lifecycle support in less than a year, the Redmond software giant recently announced.
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PSSC Labs and next-generation networking vendor Plexxi Inc. have combined to offer a converged Big Data solution called CloudOOP Big Data Pod, based on the emerging software-defined networking (SDN) technology.
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Cisco announced it was forming resale partnerships with the three primary commercial stewards of Apache Hadoop-based distributions.
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Oracle Corp. announced new products to democratize Big Data technologies, making them simpler and easier to use by IT pros who may not have specialized data scientist training.
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Expressing some impatience with the enterprise adoption of open source software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) industry consortium announced a new related open source software community and accompanying code repository.
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Claimed to be the first enterprise-grade Big Data analytics platform targeting department-specific deployments, the new product is part of the exploding movement to simplify the traditionally complicated Hadoop ecosystem.
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This week Facebook Inc. unveiled the "6 pack" -- a new "open hardware," modular network switch, which the company is calling the first of its kind.
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Facing a lack of skilled data scientists, developers and others with advanced statistical and analytics capabilities, Lavastorm Analytics is the latest firm trying to "democratize" Big Data analytics.
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A technology preview of the Tachyon in-memory distributed storage system has been added as an option for the Big Data cloud offered by BlueData Software Inc.
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NewSQL company VoltDB Inc. updated its namesake in-memory, scale-out database for faster real-time analyics on streaming data.
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The growing traction of the Apache Spark project in Big Data analytics was reaffirmed in a recent survey conducted by reactive programming specialist Typesafe.
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Wipro Ltd. and Software AG announced an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for real-time processing of streaming data.
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Cloudian Inc. released new HyperStore 5.1 hybrid cloud software that supports the Amazon S3 cloud and integrates with Apache Hadoop for Big Data analytics.
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Brocade Communications Systems Inc. shipped its OpenDaylight-based software-defined networking (SDN) controller that it says can help enterprises avoid vendor lock-in while testing the new technology. To encourage that, the company is offering a free one-year license for the new Vyatta Controller.
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With Internet of Things (IoT) development crashing the cloud/mobile/Big Data hype party, a new study indicates it will really get down to enterprise business this year.
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In partnership with enterprise Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc., Talend said its Big Data integration platform will support a preview version of Apache Storm.
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Aerospike Inc., maker of what it claims to be the "world's fastest database," has announced upgrades to its NoSQL key-value pair database.