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Microsoft launches dedicated tool to remove ‘bloatware’ from Windows 10
Anyone who’s bought a new personal computer or laptop recently will likely be familiar with the “bloatware” that OEMs increasingly love pre-installing on their machines along with Windows 10. Unfortunately for us, this bloatware is not only annoying but can also have significant security problems that could degrade the operating system’s performance or leave users ...
Perspica launches new analytics tool for DevOps
One of the fastest growing use cases for machine learning is providing insights into how software releases in a continuous delivery cycle affect overall IT operations. Keeping with that theme, software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor Perspica Inc. has just released a new analytics platform for DevOps aimed at providing greater insights into the operational impact of continuous ...
Containers are on fire as enterprises ramp up adoption
Container technology is rapidly transforming the way enterprises develop and deliver applications, and adoption is set to ramp up spectacularly in the next year, even as obstacles towards adoption persist. A new report from the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Hope Versus Reality: Containers in 2016, shows that 16 percent of all organizations are already using containers ...
Portworx ships out enterprise-grade container storage solution
Container technology has come a long way in such a short space of time, and has already done much to transform the deployment of applications. But storage has so far been unable to keep pace, because its difficult to scale up with increased workloads. Enter data storage specialist Portworx Inc. with a new solution aimed at ...
Marc Benioff reveals Salesforce also tried to buy LinkedIn
LinkedIn Corp.’s stunning $26.2 billion price tag led to speculation that Microsoft may have been caught up in a bidding war in order to acquire the professional networking site. Now, Salesforce.com, Inc. CEO Marc Benioff has admitted that he did indeed make a bid to land for the site for himself. Bloomberg revealed on Thursday ...
Microsoft enhances its Blockchain-as-a-Service offering with new middleware
Microsoft first launched its Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service option in November of last year. Now, the company is extending the offering with a bunch of new tools that enable developers to build an entire ecosystem of enterprise applications atop of the service. The newly unveiled “Project Bletchley” is Microsoft’s term for the new pair of tools, which ...
Cavium acquires QLogic to beef up its data center portfolio
Data center chip specialist Cavium Inc. has just acquired QLogic Corp. with a view to taking on rivals Intel, Broadcom Corporation and Mellanox Technologies in the storage and networking arena. The billion-dollar plus deal pairs one of the fastest-growing semiconductor manufacturers with a company that’s seeing renewed growth following a period of decline. Cavium said ...
Samsung reaches for the cloud with Joyent acquisition
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Is ambitiously eying up the cloud with the purchase of Joyent Inc., which has previously raised $125 million in funding from sources like Intel Capital and Peter Thiel. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Joyent Inc. is a cloud services provider that competes with giants like Amazon Web Services, ...
Ubuntu bids to eliminate Linux fragmentation by making Snap packages available to all
One of the biggest new features in April’s launch of Ubuntu 16.04 was the introduction of support for a new way to install applications. But the new feature, called Snappy, isn’t just for Ubuntu alone. Now, Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, has said it’s collaborating with the developers of numerous other popular Linux distributions ...
Exabeam touts behavioral analytics to combat ransomware
With the rising incidence of ransomware in the enterprise constantly grabbing the headlines, security firm Exabeam Inc. is trying to do something about it. The company has just introduced a new tool onto the market that tries to spot ransomware before it locks down an organization’s all-important files, by using machine learning-based behavioral analytics to ...