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Google appeals to developers with new Cloud Tools for PowerShell
Google is stepping up its efforts to woo Microsoft .NET developers with the introduction of new tools aimed at helping them utilize its Cloud Platform environment. Late yesterday the company unveiled a new set of Cloud Tools for PowerShell that allow developers to automate, manage and script Windows workloads on the Google cloud. With the ...
Microsoft steals HP from Salesforce.com in 6-year CRM deal
Microsoft scored a major coup yesterday when it snatched Hewlett-Packard Inc. out of the arms of Salesforce.com Inc., signing it up on a multi-year contract to use its Dynamics CRM and Office 365 products. According to a press release announcing the deal, HP plans to deploy Microsoft’s customer relationship management platform across thousands of its ...
Azure cloud to trial 4K and HDR video streams
Microsoft is to begin trialling 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) and HDR video streams following via its Azure Media Services, a part of the Azure cloud. “Today I am pleased to announce that we are conducting trials of HEVC encoding and delivery in Azure Media Services with our customers,” said Anil Murching, senior program manager of ...
Report: Dell to lay off 2,000-3,000 employees after EMC deal
Dell Technologies Inc. is expected to lay-off between 2,000 and 3,000 workers following the completion of its blockbuster $67 billion EMC Corp. acquisition. But that number could climb even higher if the newly merged company’s sales don’t match expectations, Bloomberg is reporting. Following the merger, Dell’s plan is to try to save up to $1.7 ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure Backup with enterprise-grade policy management
Microsoft is claiming that its backup and disaster recovery service for its Azure cloud platform is now and enterprise-grade contender for workloads and data already stored in its cloud. The Redmond-based company has announced a major update to Azure Backup that builds upon the Recovery Services vault that was launched into general availability last May. ...
Microsoft updates Windows 10 IoT Core with new developer-centric features
After getting its Windows 10 Anniversary Update out of the door, Microsoft is now focused on the next major update for its Windows 10 IoT Core platform for the Internet of Things. This week, the company announced a number of new capabilities for the lightweight OS, including a new Windows IoT Core Extension for Visual ...
Salesforce intros Lightning Bolt for building online communities
Salesforce.com Inc. has just added a new service called Lightning Bolt that’s designed to make it easier for companies to create customized online communities with industry-specific design and functionality. “The new Lightning Bolt framework enables the experts in our partner ecosystem to create tailored Salesforce Bolt solutions to meet the specific needs of virtually every ...
T. Rowe Price wants to block Oracle’s $9.3B Netsuite acquisition
One of NetSuite Inc.’s major shareholders has come out in opposition to its proposed $9.3 billion acquisition by Oracle Corp. Oracle announced the deal to buy the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) giant in July, following weeks of speculation about such a move. At the time, the company said it was planning to absorb NetSuite into its own ...
IBM study: Hybrid cloud dominates in the enterprise
Hybrid cloud environments are now the dominant architecture in the enterprise, a new IBM study has found. The popularity of hybrid clouds has emerged as many companies migrate workloads to the cloud while keeping others on-premises. IBM’s study, Tailoring hybrid cloud: Designing the right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth, reveals that 78 percent of enterprises ...
Yahoo open-sources Pulsar, a low-latency alternative to Apache Kafka
Yahoo! Inc. has open-sourced a new distributed “publish and subscribe” messaging system called Pulsar that’s capable of scaling out while maintaining low latencies. Yahoo has long used Pulsar to back some of its own critical applications, and now wants the open-source community to help further its development. Publish-and-subscribe refers to a messaging system in which ...