Is NoSQL ready for enterprise primetime?

There is lots of interest in NoSQL these days -- at the very least from venture capital firms that are throwing money at the potential leaders in the market like MongoDB, Couchbase and DataStax. However, while there are some case studies detailing enterprises making use of this new technology, the...
Finnish devil crimeware & Android’s ‘compulsive clickers’

Newly absorbed, acquired and assimilated by Cisco for its cyber security prowess, Sourcefire remains a subsidiary company under its own brand...
Why elephants never forget big data

Hortonworks is down at the watering hole, blowing its trumpet and enjoying a period of positive development. Just in case you missed the elephantine reference, Hortonworks (named after the elephant in Horton Hears A Who!) is a commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the open source platform for...
Intel Inside… and Underneath and Behind too?

Intel has been getting its hands dirty inside the mechanics of both cloud construction and software application development. This is nothing new, the firm does this all the time; but this is the Intel that you won't be seeing on the pre-Christmas TV advertisements with its consumer-facing messages...
What’s the problem with DevOps?

There's a small problem with DevOps; for some at least... DevOps is just a bit too much Ops and not quite enough Dev. It looks good on paper and the "blending" of software application development and systems operations team functions into the spiritual portmanteau that is DevOps should be good...
Google: Chrome safer than Acrobat for PDFs

Google's François Beaufort has confirmed that starting with the Chrome Canary release for developers, users who have downloaded a PDF while in Chrome will find that the browser itself opens the file, rather than the native application.
Why the Linux mainframe is the cloud datacentre

Linux on the server has been respected and regarded in technology circles for many years now. One of the main reasons for this is that Linux is argued to be especially competent at handling "many processes at once", something Windows has traditionally not done quite so well. Windows configuration...
What the hell is operational simplicity anyway?

Data vendors love to push towards the upper echelons of the enterprise space as much as possible, this means they (or their marketing departments at least) often fall foul of using the term operational simplicity with far too much gay abandon. But please, what the hell does operational simplicity...
Pet feeding open source PetBot robot launched

An open source Raspberry Pi-powered pet feeding machine has been built using open technologies and platforms from the start. Electronic treat dispenser The PetBot is intended to enable "interaction" with a domestic pet while the user is away from home via a set of technologies...
China’s Huawei is top 20 OpenStack contributor

Everyone's favourite Chinese hard-to-pronounce comms company Huawei (English pronunciation: "Hwah-way") has this month used