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Microsoft adds support for SUSE Linux in latest SQL Server preview
Microsoft Corp. has announced it now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise in its latest preview of the new SQL Server. The SQL Server vNext Community Technology Preview (CTP 1.2) has just been released on Windows and Linux, ahead of a full release expected later this year. Previous releases of the database software already added support for ...
Gartner says strong growth is coming to the semiconductor industry in 2017
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is forecasting a prosperous year for global semiconductor manufacturers, with revenues set to rise by 7.2 percent in 2017 from last year. The market could certainly do with a boost. In 2016, semiconductor revenues totaled $339.7 billion, a slight 1.5 percent increase from 2015. But Gartner said in its Semiconductor Forecast ...
Docker 1.13 release improves storage management, orchestration tools
Docker Inc. has announced the release of its latest container engine, Docker 1.13, with new capabilities that boost its storage efficiency and enhance the Docker Swarm container orchestration service. One of the main new features Docker 1.13 adds is a number of new commands that give users greater control over how storage space is used. ...
Apple hits Qualcomm with $1B lawsuit alleging patent abuse
Apple Inc. is taking a lead from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, slapping mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. with a $1 billion lawsuit that alleges the company demanded excessive royalty fee payments for cell phone technology patents it holds. The news comes after the FTC said last week it was charging Qualcomm for violating laws ...
Microsoft makes Intel’s Clear Linux operating system available on Azure
Microsoft Corp. has added support for yet another Linux platform on its Azure cloud: Clear Linux, an open-source operating system tuned specifically for hardware running Intel Corp.’s processors. Clear Linux is now available on the Azure Marketplace as a virtual machine, which is an operating system installed on software that acts like dedicated hardware. Intel launched ...
Aiming at enterprises, Google launches audit logging tool for its cloud service
Google Inc. has announced the beta launch of a Cloud Audit Logging service that’s designed to help organizations keep track of user and administrator activity across its cloud apps and services. Cloud Audit Logging is available on Google Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud DNS, Storage and Cloud Key Management Services. Companies can use the service to see ...
Collaboration pays: Atlassian highlights expanding customer base in solid Q2 earnings
Enterprise collaboration software provider Atlassian Corp. saw its share price waffle after reporting better-than-expected fiscal second-quarter earnings but issued a forecast short of some Wall Street forecasts. Shares leveled off up a fraction, to $27.50, in extended trading Thursday evening after rising nearly a point in regular trading before the earnings announcement. The company reported a ...
Podium Data accelerates data lake management with updates
Podium Data Inc. has updated its data lake management platform with new data preparation and publishing features that enable enterprises to access business intelligence faster than before. “Data lakes” consolidate disparate data management systems into a single, centralized repository. By doing so, companies can theoretically simplify big data preparation by picking and choosing elements to ...
IBM lands huge $62M private cloud contract with US Army
IBM Corp. has secured a huge deal with the U.S. Army to build, manage and operate a cloud solution for its Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama. The deal was described as “a one-year task order with four additional one-year options under the Army Private Cloud 2 contract,” which means it could be worth $62 million ...
Red Hat adds dynamic storage provisioning in OpenShift Container Platform update
Open-source Linux software company Red Hat Inc. on Wednesday announced an update to its OpenShift Container Platform, with new features that include support for dynamic storage provisioning for both local and remote applications. Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform is deployed on-premises as a Platform-as-a-Service product, and enables enterprises to run apps built on Docker application ...