ResearchSplice Machine goes GA, and other short stories
Splice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
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MoreSplice Machine ships v1 of its RDBMS-on-Hadoop. Plus, HP Vertica, MapR and the Apache Drill and CouchDB teams have release news of their own. Read more »
Red Hat purchased FeedHenry and its mobile app development platform in September; now it’s updating it with tools to better support collaborative development. Read more »
The plucky Finns unveiled their first tablet on Wednesday and had it crowdfunded within hours. Read more »
The flawed bill fell two votes short of what was needed, creating an odd situation where the bulk collection of communications records and other metadata can continue for now, but some… Read more »
Microsoft Azure is having troubles again, the company acknowledged Tuesday night. According to a status update, Azure’s Traffic Manager was experiencing “a multi-region partial performance degradation.” Read more »
Microsoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers using the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on… Read more »
Microsoft’s purge of Nokia branding and services continues: Opera announced Tuesday that its Mobile Store will replace the Nokia Store on Nokia feature phones, as well as devices running Symbian, and… Read more »
Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) provides the benefits of desktop virtualization while transferring the capital investment and technical difficulty to third-party service providers. Read more »
If you doubt that Linux is the king of operating systems, check this out: 300,000 students signed up for a new edX class on Linux in August. Read more »
Here’s something confusing — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet. Read more »