MicroStrategy upgrades BI platform for visual analysis, Hadoop
MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software platform, covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing framework, during the MicroStrategy World conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday. The new features in MicroStrategy 9.3 include an updated version of the vendor's Visual Insight interface, which is aimed at helping business users work through data. Additional visualization tools have been added, including density maps and network diagrams, according to a statement.
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Salesforce.com hit with second major outage in two weeks
Salesforce.com suffered a significant service outage on Tuesday, less than two weeks after another serious set of system problems. The cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) vendor's systems are divided into many instances around the world, each serving customers in different geographic regions.
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Obama order on emergency communications riles privacy group
An Executive Order issued by the White House last Friday seeks to bolster the government's ability to keep its emergency communications capabilities intact during national emergencies. But one privacy advocacy group expressed concern that the order gives government unprecedented new authority to take over wired and wireless private communication networks in the pretext of national security.
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EMC overhauls NetWorker to improve performance, scalability
EMC is updating its NetWorker backup and recovery software on Tuesday with an eye to greater efficiency, tighter integration with other EMC products, and cloud computing. NetWorker 8 is the most significant new version of the software since 2003, when NetWorker 7 was released. It updates the product in several major ways, both streamlining it for higher performance and enhancing its usefulness.
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Cleversafe slices up storage to increase big data reliability
Mo' data, mo' problems is one of the themes heard at organizations straining to get their arms around big data.
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Go it alone no more: GitHub gets $100 million investment
GitHub, the code-sharing and hosting site based on the open source Git software version control platform, is getting a $100 million investment from the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm -- its first outside investment.
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Microsoft signs two new patent licensing deals covering Android, Chrome
Microsoft said Monday that two more companies had signed patent agreements covering their Android and Chrome devices, under the company's IP (intellectual property) licensing program that already has over 1,100 licensing agreements. The software giant said it would earn royalty from the two deals but did not provide details.
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Salesforce.com to acquire shared-browsing startup
Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com said Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canadian shared-browsing technology startup GoInstant. The acquisition will add to a string of purchases by Salesforce.com of companies in social media and other technology and services areas.
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Intel invests $2.1 billion in tools maker ASML to enable smaller chip circuits
Intel will take a stake in semiconductor tools company ASML and invest in its research and development efforts, to advance manufacturing technologies that will help Intel produce smaller and more power-efficient chips, the chip maker announced Monday. ASML, based in The Netherlands, is one of the world's largest providers of tools used for chip manufacturing. It has partnerships with Intel and other leading chip makers including Samsung, GlobalFoundries, and TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.).
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RIM's CEO: What went wrong and where BlackBerry goes from here
On Thursday, June 28, Research in Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call. Heins reported a first-quarter loss of $518 million, or 99 cents a share.
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Apple ships final OS X Mountain Lion to developers
Apple on Monday released a "golden master" of OS X Mountain Lion to developers, putting the impending operating system on track to reach customers this month. "Golden master," or GM, is a label some developers apply to software that is ready, or nearly ready, for shipping. Rival Microsoft calls the same milestone "release to manufacturing," or RTM, designating that the code is suitable for computer makers to install on new machines.
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Windows Server 2012 to ship in August
Closely following a similar announcement for its Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft also said it will RTM (release to manufacturers) its next-generation operating system for the server, Windows Server 2012, next month. The company made both RTM release announcements at its Worldwide Partner Conference, being held this week in Toronto.
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VMware: It's not all about us anymore
VMware's recent acquisition of cloud management company DynamicOps could signal that the virtualization company is truly beginning to embrace non-VMware centered clouds, something analysts say is not only good for customers, but necessary for the company.
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