How Google encryption is helping tighten MariaDB securityThe release candidate of MariaDB 10.1 is out today, bringing built-in encryption donated by Google to the MySQL database fork.September 16, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Real-time web apps: Has RethinkDB's moment arrived?With the rise in web applications that push data in real time, the people behind open-source RethinkDB think they've got a database that's perfectly cut out for the task.September 16, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Cloud
Poacher turned gamekeeper? GCHQ issues advice on safer passwordsUK surveillance and intelligence agency GCHQ has come up with a list of best practice advice on the use of passwords.September 11, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Security
DevOps firm Chef rustles up $40m to feed container focus and expansion plansFurther product development is high on the agenda of DevOps automation firm Chef, which is also planning to step up its international activities.September 9, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Developer
Hortonworks CTO on Apache NiFi: What is it and why does it matter to IoT?With its roots in NSA intelligence gathering, Apache NiFi is about to play a big role in Internet of Things apps, says Hortonworks CTO Scott Gnau.September 8, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Internet of Things
Google bumps up its driverless car tests and steers clear of deerAfter two months of road-tests, prototype self-drive cars from Google are due to make an appearance on the public streets of Austin, Texas.September 4, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Innovation
Behind the blast doors of the Cold War bunker that's now a datacenter: PhotosThe fall of the Iron Curtain in early 1990s left a number of military facilities across Europe without a purpose. Here's one that's re-emerged as a datacenter.September 2, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Data Centers
Intel puts engineering and financial muscle behind OpenStack with $100m Mirantis funding boostThe OpenStack open-source cloud-computing platform stands to gain more enterprise features thanks to a major financial and engineering deal between Intel and Mirantis.August 23, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Cloud
Metaswitch aims virtual networking Calico 1.0 at the datacenter scalability problemIntegrated with OpenStack, Calico 1.0 is designed to enable datacenters to scale and at the same time remove some of the networking clutter.August 20, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Networking
Why Mesosphere is tapping into Spark and Cassandra for Infinity big-data and IoT stackBy assembling a set of open-source components in the Infinity stack, Mesosphere is aiming to simplify life for developers and data scientists working on big-data and IoT apps.August 20, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Cloud