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IBM uses blockchain to track pork supply chain in China
IBM Corp. is teaming up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Tsinghua University to bring safer food to Chinese tables using blockchain technology as a guarantee. China has developed an unenviable reputation for its poor quality food standards in recent years. The most famous incident was the notorious tainted milk scandal, where six infants died as ...
AWS updates Budgets tool to help customers limit cloud spending
Amazon Web Services has updated the AWS Budgets tool it launched last year, to help customers better keep their cloud-computing costs under control. Judging from AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr’s blog post, it’s safe to assume that some of AWS’s customers might have had a nasty shock at just how much they were spending on its cloud ...
Gartner: Dell EMC is top choice for distributed file systems and object storage
Gartner Inc. has published its first ever “Magic Quadrant” for distributed file systems and object storage, the software and hardware that’s intended to enable companies to deal with the rapid growth of unstructured data. The analyst firm reckons that tech behemoth Dell EMC is leading the way in the newly defined segment, and is some ...
Oracle launches bare metal cloud servers to take on Amazon
Oracle Corp. announced the general availability Thursday of its Bare Metal Cloud Service, which was first described by founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison at last month’s OpenWorld conference. Oracle said the new IaaS product provides a “bare metal” cloud – servers with no Oracle software running on them – in a virtualized network ...
Real-time Twitter analysis shows U.S. election is … too close to call?
With just three weeks to go until election day, the result is beyond any doubt. The polls show Hillary Clinton is heading for a landslide victory. But wait! Donald Trump has just pulled ahead and could yet take the White House. Sorry, no, false alarm. Clinton is surging ahead once more. Almost every day a new poll ...
Report: Qualcomm could close $30B deal for NXP Semiconductors next week
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is said to be closing on a deal to acquire rival firm NXP Semiconductors N.V., according to a report in Bloomberg that cites “people familiar with the process.” Rumors of acquisition talks between the companies first emerged last month via a report in the Wall Street Journal, which put a $30 billion ...
Groups’ merger aimed at driving software-defined networking
The Open Networking Foundation and the Open Networking Lab have announced plans to merge. The organizations, both of which are focused on driving adoption of Software-Defined Networking, said the merger will help to drive the next phase of cooperation to drive network virtualization. The ONF was launched back in 2011, with the primary goal of advancing the OpenFlow ...
VMware intros Kubernetes-as-a-Service on Photon Platform
VMware Inc. said at its Vmworld 2016 Europe event that the Kubernetes container management system is now supported on its Photon platform. Kubernetes is an open-source project developed by Google that has become one of the most popular management tools for container technology. The project is backed by a diverse community which includes major Linux ...
Michael Dell: Dell EMC is ‘close to operating as one company’
Dell EMC rolled out a bevy of new products on the last day of its inaugural Dell EMC World conference Wednesday that are designed to help to stitch together the newly combined companies’ massive portfolio of enterprise technologies. Dell close its acquisition of EMC on Sept. 7, and the speed at which the new entity has ...
Microsoft races ahead in the government cloud
Microsoft Corp. has said it will open up two new Azure Government cloud data centers in the U.S. early next year. The new facilities will be located in Arizona and Texas, and will join Microsoft’s existing Government Cloud data centers in Iowa and Virginia, helping to provide much lower latency cloud services for federal agencies, ...