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Red Hat Enters Storage Software Business With Gluster Buy
Red Hat, the world’s most financially successful Linux software and services company, made a bold move into the storage software business Oct. 4 with the acquisition of Gluster, whose open-source storage file system for unstructured data runs a growing number of new-generation IT companies. The transaction will cost Red Hat about $136 million in cash.…
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Teradata Unveils New Database, Data Warehousing Products
SAN DIEGO — Data analytics infrastructure provider Teradata, which released its first Aster Data-based database and a new MapReduce "big data" implementation two weeks ago, announced Oct. 3 that the fifth generation of its data warehousing appliance using both components will be available in a few months. The company made the announcement at its annual…
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Apple’s New iPhone 4S Has Sprint, iOS 5, iCloud
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 4S, a major upgrade over its previous iPhone 4 model that includes the ability to run on both GSM and CDMA networks, a faster, dual-core processor, an 8 megapixel camera and a software program that acts as a virtual assistant. The iPhone 4S also marks the first time Sprint (NYSE:S)…
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Steve Jobs, IT Giant, Dies at 56
Apple co-founder and two-time CEO Steve Jobs, recognized around the world as one of the most successful innovators in the history of American business, died Oct. 5 as the result of an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1977 and in the course of one…
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Adobe: We Will Not Abandon Flash for HTML5
LOS ANGELES — Adobe System revealed some of its strategy for taking its flagship Flash Platform forward while also enabling developers to build rich applications using HTML5. Adobe wanted to make one thing clear: The company is not abandoning Flash for HTML5, nor is it putting one ahead of the other. Indeed, during the second…
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IBM Acquires Security Software Specialist Q1 Labs
Technology giant IBM announced it is acquiring Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of security intelligence software. The move aims to accelerate IBM’s efforts to help clients more intelligently secure their enterprises by applying analytics to correlate information from key security domains and creating security dashboards for their organizations. Financial terms of the deal were…