Microsoft ‘Orleans’: A New Cloud Development Platform?
Security Makes Crummy Case for Windows 7 Migration
On August 10, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) issued its biggest-ever set of “Patch Tuesday” security bulletins and fixes. Redmond posted 14 new bulletins, in addition to the bulletin posted August 2 after another vulnerability became public.
Startups Aim to Chip Away at the Microsoft Office Empire
Startup Makes Probability-Based Chips for Big Data Apps
Lyric Semiconductor, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup that was spun out of MIT in 2006, today announced a revolutionary new approach to processing data called probability processing. It wants to make chips that are fit for a world drowning in information and dealing with data deluge.
The company was started by Dr. Ben Vigoda, a chip industry veteran, and MIT Scientist and chip industry veteran David Reynolds. It’s backed by Analog Devices CEO and lead partner of Stata Ventures, Ray Stata, with more than $20 million in funding from DARPA. It’s coming out of stealth today.
Aster Data Offers Free MapReduce IDE To Boost Use of Big Data
Smooth-Stone Gets $48M for ARM Servers
Is SaaS/Cloud Adoption Too Easy?
A recent customer survey by TrackVia, a cloud-based application development platform, found it’s not cost savings that attract non-technical users to their solution. Fifty percent cited functionality and 30 percent cited ease-of-use, making these the two most popular reasons for moving development to the cloud.
Another EngineYard Co-Founder Leaves The Company
Oracle’s Java Lawsuit: Free Markets, Not Free Software
Eucalyptus, rPath Back a New Private Cloud Effort
NewScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems are working on a new self service, private cloud initiative which is going to be announced on August 24. This new effort is going to an integrated offering that is targeting hybrid and private clouds. This will be yet another offering that would perhaps compete with a whole series of companies and efforts, including the open source cloud stack, OpenStack. More details will likely emerge around the time of VMworld 2010.