Who cares about Hadoop on Linux? Microsoft (yes, really)

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	Who cares about Hadoop on Linux? Microsoft (yes, really) Last month Microsoft did something extraordinary – something which demonstrates how completely the company has changed since its third CEO, Satya Nadella, took over. Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight, a fully managed Apache Hadoop cluster service running on Linux in its Azure cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: ManagedMethods Inc Shadow IT: Discover What's Hiding in you in Your Cloud It's no secret that enterprise use of cloud apps is on the rise, causing intensified cloud security risks and the rise of Shadow IT. This white paper focuses on the importance of discovering all the cloud apps running in your company and how you can efficiently monitor and control their use. Learn More In this Issue Windows-centric IBM changes its tune on Mac deployments Cisco supplying SDN and NFV to Softbank INSIDER Penn Medicine's big data system triggers early detection of life-threatening infections When storms hit, the Weather Company needs the cloud Oracle reworks OpenStack for a containerized world Fujitsu puts Sparc M10 servers in the cloud for big retailers Amazon screed targets not just The Times but own employees How Taylor Swift is using the Internet of Things in her concerts Red Hat dives further into DevOps with Ansible buy VMware to buy mobile email manager Boxer WEBCAST: IBM Data Movement at Maximum Speed If you could move your data anywhere in the world, how would it transform your business? With Aspera, customers can transfer unlimited numbers of files of any size at high speed, predictably and reliably, at long distances, and with complete security. Learn More Windows-centric IBM changes its tune on Mac deployments IBM is doing something it has never done before: allowing employees to use Macs at work. So far it's a success. Four months into its new program, IBM finds Mac support requirements are lower than those of a traditional PC environment, customer satisfaction is higher, and the pricier upfront cost of buying a Mac is more than offset over time. Read More Cisco supplying SDN and NFV to Softbank Softbank, which owns controlling interest in Sprint, said this week it will use Cisco's SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies in its cloud VPN service. Read More INSIDER Penn Medicine's big data system triggers early detection of life-threatening infections Healthcare organizations are latching on to big data for everything from population health management to genomic research. For Penn Medicine, the healthcare system and medical school affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, those technology advances are touching patients in very real ways. (Insider Story) Read More WHITE PAPER: ManagedMethods Inc Shadow IT: Discover What's Hiding in you in Your Cloud It's no secret that enterprise use of cloud apps is on the rise, causing intensified cloud security risks and the rise of Shadow IT. This white paper focuses on the importance of discovering all the cloud apps running in your company and how you can efficiently monitor and control their use. Learn More When storms hit, the Weather Company needs the cloud When hurricane winds are bearing down and water is rising across streets and into houses, no one at the Weather Channel wants to be thinking about server capacity or if their website can handle a twentyfold increase in traffic. Read More Oracle reworks OpenStack for a containerized world It's been just over a year since Oracle first released an OpenStack version tailored for its namesake Linux distribution, and on Tuesday it followed up with a key update reworked specifically for today's containerized world. Read More Fujitsu puts Sparc M10 servers in the cloud for big retailers While most of the public cloud runs on low-cost x86 hardware, it's not the only game in town. Rackspace is building a service using a new server based on IBM's Power processor, and now Fujitsu is making moves with its Sparc-based M10 Unix systems. Read More : Thinking Phone Networks 6 Questions for a Prospective Cloud Service Provider Simply picking a service provider isn't good enough. You need to be sure that they will provide solutions that address your needs—in the interest of your business processes, as well as the needs of individual employees. Learn More Amazon screed targets not just The Times but own employees Amazon's scathing and ill-conceived rebuttal today to a two-month-old New York Times story also serves as a warning to Amazon employees, past, present and future: Badmouth the company and you'll regret it. Read More How Taylor Swift is using the Internet of Things in her concerts If you go to a Taylor Swift concert, you could have a front row seat to an Internet of Things use case. Read More Red Hat dives further into DevOps with Ansible buy Red Hat will acquire IT automation software provider Ansible in a bid to bolster the tools it can offer enterprises for managing hybrid cloud environments through DevOps and other initiatives. Read More VMware to buy mobile email manager Boxer At VMWorld Europe, virtualization kingpin VMware announced plans to augment its mobile management suite with the purchase of startup Boxer. Read More
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