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Microsoft COO Kevin Turner quits, will not be replaced
Microsoft has announced that long-serving COO Kevin Turner is to leave the company after 11 years. The company will not replace him, but will instead split his duties between five different executives. Turner exits Microsoft and heads directly to the financial trading firm Citadel Securities LLC, where he has landed the job of CEO. Turner ...
Agriculture industry is ripe for robotic revolution
The impact of automation has already been felt in many sectors, but now it’s poised to shake up one of the oldest economic activities in the world – the agricultural sector. At present, robots are almost unheard of in farming due to the high costs of the technology, but rapid advances will cause prices to ...
Brexit begins to make its mark on IT spending
Brexit, the so-called British exit from the European Union, has already led to speculation that global IT markets may slump as the British pound slumped to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar. Now, Gartner Inc. has stepped up to confirm that speculation, saying worldwide IT spending will remain flat this year in a new ...
Ubuntu lands on Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry
Pivotal Software, Inc. has said it will provide secure images of Canonical Ltd’s Ubuntu Linux distribution atop of its Cloud Foundry platform, in another move that highlights the steady shift towards cloud-native infrastructure. The new partnership was announced on Wednesday, when the two companies said they would continue working to “harden” Ubuntu on Cloud Foundry ...
Public cloud spending to grow by $23 billion in 2016
Yet more evidence that the future of IT lies in the cloud comes from International Data Corp. (IDC), which says public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will increase spending on data center hardware (such as servers, storage and Ethernet switches) in the second half of this year. However, spending on traditional on-premises ...
Machine learning is all the rage with Big Data developers
Machine learning has advanced to the point where it more or less goes hand-in-hand with Big Data. Indeed, so popular is the technology that over a third of developers – some 36 percent – who’re working on Big Data or advanced analytics projects use elements of machine learning, says a new study by Evans Data ...
Google rolls out Kubernetes 3.1 to advance containers in production
Today marks the release of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest edition of Google’s hit container cluster management solution. The new edition is available on GitHub and also in Google’s Container Engine Service. With Kubernetes 3.1, the focus is on delivering a more robust and scalable system for managing containers in production – pretty good timing considering ...
CoreOS’ key-value store etcd gets a major upgrade
Container software vendor CoreOS Inc. has just released the latest version of its distributed key-value platform “etcd”, which is used to store data in containers across clusters. The platform, which is already integrated with Google’s open-source Kubernetes, now includes new data model and API features designed to make upgrades easier while supporting a wider range ...
Microsoft makes video conferencing free with Skype Meetings
Microsoft is making it cheaper and easier for small businesses to conduct teleconferences and virtual meetings with its new Skype Meetings services, rolled out yesterday. A free service, Skype Meetings allows users to hold meetings with up to ten participants for the first 60 days. After that trial period has expired, they’ll be limited to ...
Corporate “no-cloud” policies to be extinct by 2020, Gartner says
Cloud computing is getting so pervasive throughout the enterprise that Gartner Inc. is predicting so-called “no-cloud” policies will become as rare as “no-Internet” stances in the near future. Gartner’s report, Market Insight: Cloud Computing’s Drive to Digital Business Creates Opportunities for Providers, also revealed that more than 30 percent of the world’s largest 100 vendors ...