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Oracle layoffs signal end of life for Sun SPARC and Solaris products
Oracle Corp. apparently has made a fresh round of job cuts, this time affecting its Solaris and Scalable Processor Architecture business units. The layoffs were revealed a few days ago by a number of employees who took to the anonymous forum The Layoff to vent their frustration at their former employer. According to some posts, ...
With new $90M funding round, Lilium aims to get electric flying taxis aloft
German aviation startup Lilium GmbH has taken an important step forward in its plans to deliver a five-seater airborne taxi called the Lilium Jet, after closing on a $90 million Series B funding round. The company said on Tuesday it was backed by investors including the royal family of Liechtenstein’s investment fund, China’s Tencent Corp. ...
Huawei expands public cloud partnership with Microsoft in China
Chinese networking giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is teaming up with Microsoft Corp. in an effort to grab a bigger share of the public cloud market in its home nation. The new partnership will see Huawei host more of Microsoft’s services on its public cloud. Huawei announced the expanded partnership on Tuesday at an event in ...
BT launches cloud-based platform for digital service delivery
U.K.-based telecommunications firm BT Group Plc is touting a new cloud-based “business platform as a service” offering that aims to help businesses speed up the delivery of digitized services. BT’s new Personalized Compute Management System enables customers to buy, access and bring digital services to market within just 12 weeks, the company said. It added ...
Facebook misses out in $600M bid for Indian cricket streaming rights
Facebook Inc. underlined how serious its video streaming ambitions are with the news Monday that it made a failed bid to secure the digital live streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, one of the highest-profile cricket events in the world. The social media giant put in a $600 million bid to secure ...
Thanks to LinkedIn acquisition, Microsoft now leads enterprise software as a service
Microsoft Corp. has retained its clear lead in the enterprise software as a service market, its business bolstered by the acquisition of the networking site LinkedIn Corp. in late 2016. Microsoft swooped to buy LinkedIn for $26 billion in June 2016 in what was one of the biggest tech acquisitions of that year. At the ...
Google updates its cloud monitoring tool Stackdriver with new logging features
Google Inc. has just pushed out a major update to its integrated cloud monitoring, logging and diagnostics tool Stackdriver, which works with Google Compute Platform and Amazon Web Services. With the update, Google said, it’s trying to make log analysis easier to perform, faster and more powerful. To that end, the company said it reduced ...
The number of ‘citizen developers’ is exploding as DevOps teams struggle to keep pace
Overwhelmed information technology and operations teams are increasingly being assisted by colleagues with virtually no training or experience in programming, according to a new report. The rise of these so-called “citizen developers” is expected to accelerate further over the next two years, and will have a serious impact on enterprises’ application development efforts, 451 Research ...
Major banks sign up for blockchain project to replace traditional clearinghouses
Not even banks can escape from the mania surrounding the meteoric rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin this year. For some time, some of the world’s major financial institutions have been looking into ways they can exploit the blockchain technology that underpins Bitcoin and other digital assets. On Thursday, several of them said they are ...
IBM and Salesforce pitch data-powered services
IBM Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. today are building on a global strategic partnership around artificial intelligence that was announced last March. The first of the new services is IBM Cloud Integration for Salesforce, which helps connect enterprise and external data that sits outside a company’s customer relationship management system for better insights. With the integration, ...