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Linux Foundation to house Project OWL’s disaster relief IoT firmware
The Linux Foundation said today it has agreed to house the “internet of things” device firmware effort of Project OWL, which aims to create a mesh network of open source devices called “DuckLinks” that can be used to establish an Internet connection during emergency situations. One of the worst things about being in a disaster ...
IDC slashes tech spending forecast amid coronavirus fears
International Data Corp. says it’s revising its information technology spending forecast for 2020 downward, blaming the fallout from the rapid spread of the coronavirus. According to indicators in the first quarter, IDC reckons there will be a significant decline in spending on both hardware and software as companies adjust to the situation. As a result, IDC ...
IBM enhances Watson’s natural language understanding capabilities
IBM Corp. said today it has made some big improvements to the natural language processing capabilities of its IBM Watson platform. The new capabilities, which were born out of IBM Research’s Project Debater, will help Watson understand and analyze some of the most challenging aspects of English language with greater clarity than before, the company said. ...
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open-source operating system for container apps
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the debut of a new, open-source operating system for software containers that runs on bare metal servers or virtual machines. AWS Bottlerocket is currently available in preview, and is a stripped down operating system comprised of only the components that are absolutely essential to get containers up and running. ...
HPE Container Platform is now generally available
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced the general availability of the HPE Container Platform Monday, four months after it entered beta. Launched in November, the platform combines an assortment of technologies developed by BlueData Software Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc., which were recently acquired by HPE. The company describes the Container Platform as an “integrated turnkey solution” that uses BlueData ...
Cloudera’s stock rises after big-data firm crushes earnings forecast
It’s smiles all round at big-data company Cloudera Inc., which saw its stock jump more than 10% today after posting financial results that easily beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company, which sells various data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning and analytics software to enterprises, reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of ...
Docker fleshes out developer strategy with new service plans
Several months after selling off its enterprise business, software container company Docker Inc. today fleshed out its new strategy to focus more on solving problems for developers with some expanded services. The new strategy is a necessary step for Docker, which was once seen as one of the most promising “unicorn” companies in Silicon Valley after ...
Red Hat updates Ceph Storage platform for cloud-native workloads
Red Hat Inc. today announced a new release of its Ceph Storage platform, based on the most recent Nautilus release of the Ceph open-source project. Red Hat Ceph Storage is a software platform that provides highly scalable object, block and file-based storage in a unified system. It’s designed to run on commodity hardware and uses ...
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Vcinity enables data access at local speeds from anywhere in the world
Multicloud is already a reality for a growing number of enterprises, and now they’re starting to demand more consistent experiences across the various public cloud platforms they use. One of the best ways to ensure more consistent experiences is to be able to leave data in place and access it where it’s stored, instead of ...
Salesforce updates Health Cloud with new analytics and relationship management tools
Salesforce.com Inc. today added several new features and capabilities to its Health Cloud customer relationship platform for the healthcare and life sciences industry. The updates continue Salesforce’s strategy of building out unique offerings for different industries. Among the new tools are a new Provider Relationship Management service for healthcare providers to keep track of their relationships ...