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Microsoft now has the most open-source contributors on GitHub
Microsoft Corp. sent shockwaves through the tech world a couple of years back when it first began seriously embracing open-source software, and now the company can proudly boast that it has the largest number of contributors to projects on GitHub. The Git repository hosting service yesterday revealed that 16,419 contributors who’re affiliated with Microsoft have ...
Dell EMC unveils all-flash software-defined storage network
Dell Technologies Inc. has released its first product following its $67 billion swallow of EMC Corp. in the shape of a new software-defined storage (SDS) offering. Called ScaleIO Ready Node, it’s an all-flash SDS product that runs on Dell EMC PowerEdge x86 servers. The main sales pitch is that ScaleIO Ready Node allows users rapidly ...
Gartner forecasts explosive growth in public, private cloud services
Gartner Inc. reckons the global market for public cloud services will grow by 17 percent this year. The research firm said in its latest report that the market for cloud services, worth $178 billion in 2015, will surge to $208.6 billion by the end of this year, which puts it higher than the gross domestic product ...
Unravel Data emerges from stealth to clean up the Big Data stack
One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the core and a clutch of associated platforms like the Apache Kafka messaging system and Apache Spark for in-memory computing, and ...
Dell-HPE battle rages on as server market revenues fall
The newly merged Dell Technologies Inc. has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. in servers in terms of units shipped, but HPE continues to lead the field in revenues, according to new reports from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. (IDC). The report comes at a pivotal time. Both companies are in the midst of a significant ...
Scala developers lead the way in container, microservices adoption
Scala developers are inching ahead of Java developers when it comes to microservices and cloud-native apps. But according to a new survey by Lightbend Inc., the main backer of the Scala project, both camps also indicate that containers are set to cause huge disruption in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) landscape. The biggest takeaway from ...
Evernote to take up residence in Google’s cloud
Evernote has said it will migrate its entire infrastructure onto Google’s Cloud Platform. The deal is a big win for the search giant’s effort to make headway against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the leaders in public cloud computing. In a blog post discussing the move, Evernote’s Vice President of Operations Ben McCormack said ...
VMware offloads vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking business
VMware Inc. has said it’s dumping its vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking software, which is the financial component of its vRealize management suite, just five years after it first acquired it. Private investment firm Skyview Capital has acquired the business for an undisclosed sum. VMware acquired the software when it bought out a little-known company called Digital ...
Microsoft to launch Azure Service Fabric on Linux this month
Microsoft has announced it will release a Linux flavor of its Service Fabric cloud service into public preview later this month. The service was first launched in preview on Azure last March, and the company says a Linux flavor will be released at Microsoft’s Ignite conference on Sept. 26. Service Fabric allows businesses to deploy ...
OpenStack Mitaka software arrives as developers tease Newton release
As vendors scramble to update their OpenStack distributions based on the latest Mitaka release, developers are already teasing what’s in store for the next version of the cloud computing fabric, dubbed OpenStack Newton. A number of vendors have already gotten their latest releases based on Mitaka out of the door, including Red Hat Inc. and ...