New Oracle Big Data Appliance Comes With Intel, Cloudera Upgrades
Oracle released a new big data appliance software that includes Intel‘s newest processors and the recent version of Cloudera software, E-Week reports. Chris Preimesberger writes the Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 also has a new Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for connecting the software with other servers. The new Cloudera version includes Apache Hadoop and Cloudera Manager, [...]
According to reports from various firms, this year has seen a drop in numbers of both cyber attacks and flaws that have been used to attack businesses. Symantec is reportedly expected to see a 30 percent drop in the total number of software vulnerabilities and a 10 percent drop in critical vulnerabilities. The firm could see [...]
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Microsoft Corp. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. have entered a broad, multi-year patent cross-licensing agreement that will provide Casio’s customers with patent coverage for Linux use on specific Casio devices. The agreement is an extension of a long-standing relationship between the two companies. Microsoft software can be found on a variety of Casio products including [...]
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Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp. has rolled out DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint biometrics in 122 Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes restaurant locations throughout 15 states. Deploying this Point-of-Sale software provides employees accountability and reduces unauthorized discounts and overrides. Prior to installing fingerprint biometrics, registers required a key to manage refunds, voids and discounts, but this system resulted in [...]
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IBM announced this week the continued adoption of its smarter computing systems, software and services across China’s private and public sectors. IBM is working with the China National Bureau of Statistics, Guizhou Provincial Health Department and Guizhou Mobile to help each build more advanced IT environments based on IBM’s optimized system architecture, data and analytics [...]
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Red Hat has invited Linux users to discuss features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ideas discussion group on the customer portal is open to subscribers and suggestions. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ideas discussion group is an interactive process with partners, customers and contributors in the open [...]
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Nearly 40 percent of web hosts were repeat victims of phishing attacks that resulted in the placing of malware on their server platforms, according to a new report by the Internet Policy Committee of the Anti-Phishing Working Group. Thirty-seven percent of respondents said their websites had phishing or spoof sites planted on their web servers [...]
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