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IT organizations are struggling to recruit skilled server staff
Information technology firms are finding it difficult to hire staff for roles across traditional servers and converged infrastructure due to a decline in the number of applicants with the necessary skills, a new report from 451 Research Inc. reveals. Because of the need to reduce costs associated with storing data in public clouds, many companies ...
Rackspace announces private cloud capabilities on VMware
Managed services company Rackspace Inc. has said it’s expanding its private cloud capabilities through VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation. The company on Monday confirmed the general availability of its Rackspace Private Cloud on VMware’s Cloud Foundation, which is a software-defined data center platform that incorporates VMware’s vSphere, vSAN, and NSX products. VMware’s Cloud Foundation can be ...
Uber sets its sights on former GE CEO Jeff Immelt
Former General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey R. Immelt has emerged as the top candidate to take over the CEO job at Uber Technologies Inc. Recode reported over the weekend that a majority of board members at the ride-hailing company favor Immelt, citing “numerous” unnamed sources. However, there are at least two other candidates who ...
The Daily Stormer retreats to the dark web after being booted offline yet again
Neo-Nazi hate site The Daily Stormer briefly reappeared online for a few hours on Friday, only to be dumped a few hours later by its new web hosting provider. Dubbed as the “top hate site in America”, the Daily Stormer was at the center of controversy last week after a blog posted to the site ...
Flash shortage continues with no end in sight
Big chip makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. are raking in record revenue, thanks to a global shortage of flash memory, and the long-running shortage of memory chips is set to continue indefinitely, dragging down the profits of companies that make products such as smartphones, computers, networking gear and flash ...
Alibaba’s cloud computing revenue almost doubles
Chinese online retail giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. said its public cloud computing business hit 1 million paying customers for the first time and revenues nearly doubled from last year. Cloud revenue jumped 96 percent, to 2.43 billion yuan ($359 million), in its first quarter as the company said today it welcomed aboard 137,000 new customers. These ...
CoreOS brings its Tectonic Kubernetes platform to Microsoft Azure
Software container company CoreOS Inc. is making its technology more accessible with the general availability of its “self-driving Kubernetes platform” Tectonic on the Microsoft Azure cloud. The move comes as CoreOS announces the simultaneous release of Tectonic 1.7, which comes with improvements such as automated operations enabling one-click updates of Kubernetes, and monitoring alerts. CoreOS said ...
Andrew Ng set to create $150M venture capital fund focused on AI
Former Google Brain research project creator and Baidu Inc. Chief Scientist Andrew Ng is said to be creating a new $150 million venture capital fund that will focus on investing in artificial intelligence startups. Ng’s move was first reported by peHub, which came across a filing he made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Docker adds support for IBM mainframes with Enterprise Edition update
Software container specialist Docker Inc. on Wednesday pushed out a new version of its enterprise service, adding more sophisticated policy controls and automation features, together with support for IBM Corp.’s mainframes. Docker Enterprise Edition 17.06 is basically the complete package of tools that organizations need to get Docker’s container platform up and running. Containers allow ...
Microsoft to offer new training course for Azure Stack operators
Ahead of the release of its new on-premises cloud computing offering, Microsoft Corp. is pitching a new training course for those who want to become an official “Azure Stack Operator.” Azure Stack has long been touted as being easy to set up and deploy, but Microsoft now says that whoever is tasked with keeping it up ...