Toby Wolpe
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Nokia sets out major job cuts but steps up 5G push
Telecoms company expects to save millions in cost cutting over the next two years. → Read More
Rackspace serves up free Carina Docker-based container-as-a-service beta on OpenStack
Using the native Docker API and tooling, the Carina container service aims to enable users to spin up containers quickly and easily. → Read More
Now IBM unveils Blue Box Local on-prem OpenStack private cloud service
Five months on from its acquisition of Blue Box, IBM has announced an OpenStack-based private cloud environment that runs in a user's own datacenter. → Read More
Admins get first OpenStack professional certification: OpenStack and Linux Foundations set for 2016 rollout
To help firms identify expert staff more easily and raise skill levels, the OpenStack Foundation has today unveiled the first qualification in its professional certification scheme. → Read More
How OpenStack's project navigator aims to steer users' cloud choices
Tapping into data from a range of sources, including user surveys, the new online Project Navigator tool from the OpenStack Foundation is designed to help firms pick through open-source cloud components. → Read More
Why OpenStack firm Mirantis says China joint venture is key to Asia ambitions
A deal struck with Chinese cloud provider UCloud to build a new jointly-owned OpenStack company is designed to strengthen Mirantis' hand in the burgeoning Asian open-source cloud market. → Read More
With IBM Power8 deal and Oracle backing for Cypher project, graph database Neo4j 2.3 is now out
On top of new features in the latest release of the graph database, Neo4j is being tuned for IBM hardware while Neo's query language Cypher gets its own open-source project. → Read More
Docker snaps up Tutum to expand its cloud offering into DevOps
Now joining forces with the Docker Hub cloud platform is the Tutum service for dev and ops teams working with production containers. → Read More
OpenStack's Liberty is out but what's in the new release?
Kilo's big theme of making popular open-source cloud platform OpenStack easier to use continues with new features in the Liberty release - but there's also a focus on scaling. → Read More
How Couchbase 4.0 is cranking up its developer appeal
The latest release of open-source document store Couchbase is aiming to make life easier for developers with, among other things, a new SQL-based query language. → Read More
Now Basho gives Riak a time-series data option for IoT apps
Because Internet-of-Things data is mushrooming, Riak firm Basho thinks it's time to add a specific time-series backend to the open-source database. → Read More
MapR-DB adds native JSON support to cut Hadoop data shuffling
Work on big-data app development should be faster and simpler thanks to a JSON API for MapR-DB, according to the Hadoop distro firm. → Read More
Hadoop Open Data Platform moves under Linux Foundation's wing
New members, technical progress and a formal governance structure are the ODPi's way of saying that the project set up by Hadoop firm Hortonworks and EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal is moving forward. → Read More
North America's IPv4 address supply runs dry
The long-predicted exhaustion of IPv4 addresses has now taken place in North America, with the region's authority left with no further supply of the 32-bit labels to issue. → Read More
Tablet use set to fall in 2016 for the first time
The golden period for tablet sales after the appearance of the iPad is well and truly over, with the installed base for slates set to show is first decline in 2016. → Read More
Microsoft and DataStax tie up Cassandra on Azure deal as new Titan graph database rolls out
It's big day for Cassandra firm DataStax, with its database offering now on Microsoft Azure, plus the release of the Titan graph database. → Read More
KVM creators open-source fast Cassandra drop-in replacement Scylla
The self-styled KVM kings have turned their attention to creating a new database that improves on the Apache Cassandra wide column store. → Read More
What users think of SAP's Simple Finance S/4 HANA cloud offering
SAP's Simple Finance HANA-based cloud platform is relatively new, which may explain patchy deployment plans among user organisations. → Read More
Pentagon working on anti-hacker system to crack down on its own security flaws
With a perceived rise in computer attacks by foreign powers, and a critical internal report, the US Department of Defense is building a system to help fix its own vulnerabilities to cyber threats. → Read More
How Google encryption is helping tighten MariaDB security
The release candidate of MariaDB 10.1 is out today, bringing built-in encryption donated by Google to the MySQL fork database. → Read More