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VMware launches Spring Hadoop for Java developers

VMware's Spring Hadoop offers link between Spring development framework and Hadoop distributed processing platform.
Apache to make Hadoop more user friendly in version 0.23

The forthcoming Hadoop release, likely to be dubbed version 0.23, will also get improvements in availability, performance and scalability.
Typesafe to offer Scala development to enterprises

Startup company's JVM-compatible Scala-based software stack is geared toward parallel and distributed computing environments.
Syncsort to launch Hadoop data sort alternative

Users can swap out default Hadoop data sort for higher-performing solutions
Apache Foundation graduates Chemistry project to top level

In an effort to make content management systems work more harmoniously with one another, the Apache Software Foundation has promoted its Apache Chemistry interoperability toolkit to a top level project.
Yahoo drops own brand Hadoop distribution

The company instead will focus on Apache's version of the distributed computing platform.
Apache to steward NASA built middleware

The Apache Software Foundation has accepted Object-Oriented Data Technology as a top-level project
Google Wave resurfaces as open source Apache project

A complex collaboration application developed and abandoned by Google may find a second home at Apache
IBM creates new clustered analytics processing platform

IBM today announced that it has created a new distributed computing architecture with a General Parallel File System technology that is twice as fast as existing clustered file systems and that provides management and advanced data-replication techniques.
OnLive launches MicroConsole cloud gaming system

Imagine a game console the size and thickness of two iPhones stacked one atop the other, that can serve up nearly any computer game with high definition clarity, sips just 6 watts of power, and costs just $99.

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Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.
Scala designer cites goals and directions for JVM alternative

Martin Odersky is the designer of the Scala programming language, a general-purpose statically typed language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, and discusses the origins and plans for the language that can be used to build Android applications.
Facebook and Twitter pose a security threat for enterprise

Companies that communicate with customers via Facebook and Twitter must protect sensitive data, SugarCRM official notes at JasperSoft conference.
Host the cloud at home with ViFib

French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data centre space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.
Data centres need to be more flexible

Data centres in the future will have to be more responsive to demands and take into account businesses efficiencies says Gartner.
Industry sceptical on Microsoft's new-found openness

Yesterday's announcement from Microsoft that it was opening up its APIs sent shock waves throughout the industry. We look at the company's possible motives and gauge how Microsoft's open-source competitors see the move.
Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid

With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraFLOPS of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the USA
Does HP's acquisition of Mercury affect the industry?

How the purchase of Mercury Interactive could change the network management game.
Botnets ? the Internet?s elusive parasite

They are the networks-within-networks that nobody saw coming and few know how to banish.
Get a handle on next-gen networks

It's all-change when it comes not only to network technology, but also to the uses it's being put to - and the regulatory policies that it attracts.

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