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AI, machine learning top Gartner’s 10 tech trends in 2017
Advanced machine learning, artificial intelligence and data science will be among the top new technologies shaping business trends through 2017 and beyond, according to analyst firm Gartner Inc. The research firm presented its “Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2017” at the Gartner Symposium/Itxpo in Orlando, Fl., this week. It said it expects to see ...
AWS updates its Aurora database to link cloud services
Amazon Web Services is stepping up integration between its own cloud services, adding two new features to its Aurora MySQL-compatible database. The first update sees Aurora gain the ability to invoke Lambda functions, which means users can connect the Aurora database to AWS’s other services and load data into Aurora directly from the Amazon Simple ...
Inadequate storage tools hold back container adoption, survey finds
Storage issues are holding back adoption of container technology in the enterprise, according to a new survey by data storage firm Portworx Inc. The biggest challenge: a lack of sufficient tools to properly address container storage. Portworx, which quizzed 648 information technology professionals from small, medium-sized and large enterprises, found that 55 percent of companies ...
The JS Foundation launches to unite the JavaScript community
The Linux Foundation has announced the birth of the JS Foundation, which aims to provide technical governance and mentoring to a range of JavaScript-focused open-source development projects. JavaScript is one of the most popular high-level programming languages, and underwrites millions of web applications in use today. The language itself has long been standardized via the ...
Red Hat study shows virtualization will keep growing
With the rise of exciting new technologies like containers, virtualization might sometimes seem like it’s old hat. But not according to Red Hat Inc., whose latest research shows that enterprise adoption is still on the rise. In a new survey of over 900 enterprise information technology pros, Red Hat discovered that virtualization is still gaining ...
Microsoft offers up a checklist to ease cloud procurement decisions
Microsoft Corp. is positioning itself as the “responsible” public cloud provider by releasing a checklist for customers looking to make cloud procurement decisions. The Cloud Services Due Diligence Checklist is meant to help organizations muddle their way through the process of contracting and managing cloud service providers, Alex Li, a principal standards analyst at Microsoft, said in ...
Docker drops anchor in China with Alibaba Cloud partnership
Docker Inc. is bringing the container phenomenon to China via a partnership with one of its biggest cloud computing providers, Alibaba Cloud. Founded back in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of well-known Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., and claims to be China’s largest public cloud provider. It says it’s entering ...
Salesforce walks away from Twitter acquisition, for now
Twitter Inc. was dealt another blow just before the weekend when the last of its potential suitors, Salesforce.com Inc., distanced itself from an acquisition in the near term. The news follows reports last month that Twitter had been approached by a number of high profile tech companies to discuss a possible buyout. News of Salesforce’s rejection ...
Cyber security spending to hit $100B by 2020, IDC says
Information technology services will see greater investment in cyber security than any other segment this year, reaching $73.6 billion, according to a new survey from International Data Corp. released this week. The finding comes from IDC’s newly released “Worldwide Semiannual Security Spending Guide“, which says that services will represent almost 45 percent of global cyber ...
Pure Storage expands converged infrastructure partnership with Cisco
All-flash storage solutions provider Pure Storage Inc. is expanding its partnership on converged infrastructure with Cisco Systems Inc. The company said that Cisco has validated its FlashStack converged infrastructure systems for the data center. The collaboration between the two companies is particularly interesting in light of the recent merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. ...