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Microsoft updates Azure Stack preview with Functions, App Service
Microsoft Corp. has updated its third and final Azure Stack technical preview with some of the Azure cloud’s more advanced features and also some of its platform-as-a-service tools. Azure Stack is Microsoft’s hybrid cloud offering that will come preloaded on hardware from partner firms Dell Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Cisco ...
Samsung expects strong profits thanks to chips, Galaxy S7 phone
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has managed to overcome both a political scandal and an exploding phone. The Korean electronics giant issued preliminary guidance for its first-quarter 2017 Thursday, forecasting an operating profit of 9.9 trillion won ($8.8 billion) and sales of $50 trillion won ($44 billion). The strong showing underscores the strength of a business ...
Tableau Software finally rolls out subscription prices for all of its products
Tableau Software Inc. is catching up with the times, rolling out subscription pricing for its entire suite of business intelligence products as it prepares to ditch its old software license business model. The company said subscription pricing will significantly reduce the startup expense for deploying its products, which include Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and Tableau ...
Google ships out a host of updates for application containers
Google Inc. is making it easier for enterprises to get application container workloads up and running on its cloud platform with new automated management of nodes, or servers on a network. The new features came the same day as the company announced general availability of its Container Optimized OS, and Kubernetes 1.6, its container orchestration ...
As market realities bite, Ubuntu ditches Unity desktop environment for GNOME
Canonical Ltd. has finally admitted defeat in its long-running quest to deliver a converged Ubuntu Linux experience that runs on both desktops and smartphones. For more than six years, Canonical, which develops the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system distribution, has been trying to sell the idea of convergence – which means, more or less, the ...
FCC chairman says broadband competition doesn’t justify strict privacy rules – and critics howl
Strict privacy rules for Internet service providers are not needed because the broadband market is more competitive than the search engine marketplace, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and acting Federal Trade Commission Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen argued in an opinion piece in The Washington Post Wednesday. Most Americans who have few choices for home Internet service ...
Seagate bids to slash flash storage costs with new RealStor arrays
Seagate Technology LLC is claiming big performance gains alongside a reduction in cost with the release Monday of a new lineup of all-flash and hybrid storage arrays. In a blog post, Seagate cites market research on the critical price points of all-flash storage, saying that systems priced under $100,000 have yet to take off in ...
Shield AI raises $10.5m to build terrorist-hunting drones
A startup that aims to save lives with its artificial intelligence-powered drones has just raised $10.5 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz. San Diego-based Shield AI said it makes drones that “find people and threats inside buildings without a remote pilot” in a statement on its website. ...
Expanding in Europe, Amazon Web Services sets new cloud region in Sweden next year
Amazon Web Services is to expand further into Europe with a new data center facility that’s set to open in Sweden sometime next year. AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog post that the AWS EU Stockholm region will be comprised of three availability zones when it opens in 2018, without giving a ...
Espresso: Google serves up software to give its public cloud a speed boost
Google Inc. on Tuesday unveiled Espresso, the latest piece of its never-ending quest to speed up its services all the way to the edge of its massive global network. Google has been steadily building out its networking infrastructure for more than 10 years in an effort to support new real-time services. Espresso, the latest piece ...