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Microsoft doubles down on cloud transparency at Build 2016
Alongside the developer services that were added to Azure at its Build event this week, Microsoft Corp. rolled out new monitoring functionality designed to help customers keep a closer eye on their cloud deployments. Headlining the release is a tool called Service Profiler that promises to ease the chore of identifying performance issues by visualizing ...
Red Hat will give away its Linux distro for free to developers
Two years after making its JBoss suite of middleware tools free for non-production use, Red Hat Inc. is introducing the ability to download its flagship Linux distribution under the same terms. The move should make it much more straightforward for developers to take advantage of the platform, which has until now been fairly tricky to ...
Microsoft challenges one of AWS’ fastest growing services with Azure Functions
The public cloud provides the ability to rent a supercomputer’s worth of processing power on a moment’s notice for an important task and then deallocate the resources just as fast, but not every project necessities so much infrastructure. In fact, many applications only require the ability to run a few lines of code every now ...
Dell launches beefy new PowerEdge servers with Intel’s latest Xeon chips
Processors may not be getting faster at the same rate they once used to, but data center suppliers are nonetheless continuing to push the envelope on performance. Dell Inc. this morning unveiled a new line of PowerEdge machines that incorporate Intel Corp.’s latest Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips to provide a 20-30 percent speed improvement over ...
Microsoft to open-source newly acquired Xamarin’s cross-platform dev tech
The developer community was caught entirely off guard in November of 2014 when Microsoft Corp. abruptly announced that it’s open-sourcing its popular .NET application framework for Windows. Six quarters and countless code contributions later, however, it should come as much less of a surprise that the software giant is releasing the core components of Xamarin under ...
HPE’s latest servers pack a new kind of memory that can retain data even after outages
The new ProLiant Gen9 models that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching this morning aren’t like most other servers. Instead of just including a few traditional DRAM cards under the hood, the vendor has decided to add the option of fitting the motherboard with a novel type of memory that is described as both faster and ...
MapD unveils a GPU-powered database for running complex visualizations
The need for faster access to business intelligence is reshaping analytics environments all the way down to the hardware level. On the storage side, modern number-crunching systems like Apache Spark keep records in memory instead of disk to improve query performance. And a startup called MapD Technologies Inc. now hopes to drive a similar shift ...
LinkedIn’s newest open-source tool will crash your application to test its resilience
Practically every important application in the enterprise today comes with safeguards designed to protect against common technical problems like server outages. But there’s often a big difference between how a service is expected to handle an issue and how it does so in practice, which requires organizations to painstakingly test for any weak points that ...
IBM wants to let companies run Spark on their mainframes
Talk about old meets new. At the Strata + Hadoop World summit this morning, IBM Corp. pulled back the curtains on a software bundle aimed at making it more feasible for organizations to run Apache Spark on their System z mainframes. Although it may seem like an unusual combination at first, the company believes the ...
Virtual Instruments and Load DynamiX merge, raise $20M to form new monitoring juggernaut
To combat increasing competition from cloud-based monitoring providers, Virtual Instruments Inc. and Load DynamiX Inc. have signed a merger agreement will see their assets combined under the former’s name. The new outfit is poised to hit the ground running thanks to $20 million in funding courtesy of growth-stage fund HighBar Partners and three other institutional ...