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The OpenStack Foundation has taken the wraps of off the latest release of the OpenStack cloud platform, named Ocata. OpenStack Ocata is the 15th release of the open-source cloud infrastructure platform, and was completed in just four months, much quicker than typical …
HP delivers strong earnings as personal computer revenues climb
Personal computer and printer maker HP Inc. has gotten off to a strong start in 2017, reporting better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter earnings. The company reported a profit of $600 million, or 36 cents per share, on revenues of $12.7 billion, up 4 percent from …
Report: Public cloud spending to grow seven times faster than IT overall
Public cloud spending continues to explode, with worldwide investments set to rise this year over 24 percent, to $122.5 billion, according to International Data Corp.’s latest Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. Bearing in mind that IDC recently reported that total …
Diamanti launches combined application container networking and storage appliance
Hyperconverged infrastructure startup Diamanti Inc. is bidding to solve the challenges of balancing networking and storage requirements for application containers with the launch today of a dedicated hardware appliance for running container workloads. The launch comes as the company closed on an …
Red Hat aims to improve application container integration services
The rapid growth of cloud-based software-as-a-service systems, the Internet of Things and new data streams is forcing organizations to deliver innovative new services faster. As a result, application containers and architectures based on application programming interfaces, or APIs, that tap into software components …
Google rents Nvidia graphics chips in its cloud for machine learning
Google Inc. is touting the beta test of a new cloud service that lets customers rent Nvidia Corp. graphics chips running in its data centers to do machine learning and other computing-heavy workloads. The program, launched Tuesday, allows Google cloud customers in …
Intel accelerates 5G push with new products, partners and platforms
Having been all but shut out of the first wave of the mobile computing revolution, Intel Corp. is moving to make sure lightning doesn’t strike twice. Ahead of next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company today is revealing a sweeping …
Foundation’s ‘Open Innovation Pipeline’ aims to advance software-defined networking
The Open Network Foundation has announced a new development framework that aims to advance software-defined networks and network virtualization through open-source platforms, network device disaggregation and new network standards. The new initiative is called the Open Innovation Pipeline, which builds on earlier …
Report: Legacy software problems are driving new ‘low-code’ development approach
The rise of cloud computing has made enterprise software more accessible than ever before, but the quality of code and its ability to streamline daily business operations still falls short. That’s according to a new vendor survey, which finds that as a …
Microsoft pushes DocumentDB database as sub for ransomware target MongoDB
Microsoft Corp. is hoping to capitalize on the recent spate of ransomware attacks on MongoDB database installations by pitching its alternative DocumentDB solution to developers. In a blog post titled: “Dear #MongoDB users, we welcome you in #Azure #DocumentDB,” the company reaches …