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Tokyo drivers brace themselves for deep learning-based, targeted ad bombardment
Object storage provider Cloudian Inc. is teaming up with Japanese digital advertising agency Dentsu Inc. to deliver the world’s first targeted ads to drivers as they drive past billboards in Tokyo. The experimental system has been set up on a major highway in the Japanese capital, using roadside cameras to capture images of vehicles and ...
Platform9 embraces container movement with support for Kubernetes
Private cloud services vendor Platform9 Systems Inc. is getting into the container game, introducing support for Kubernetes on its managed OpenStack offering. Founded by a bunch of ex-VMware Inc. engineers back in 2013, Platform9 is a fairly unique and interesting vendor in that it focuses on customer’s existing infrastructure and transforms infrastructure into an agile, ...
Public cloud strengthens its grip as enterprise adoption accelerates
The software-defined data center is seeing widespread adoption with more workloads, ranging from routine functions to mission-critical tasks, shifting to public clouds, according to a new survey from HyTrust Inc. HyTrust, which is partly funded by the CIA’s venture capital unit and works with government agencies and public firms, said that adoption of software-defined data ...
Ready for takeoff: FAA set to announce commercial drone rules this week
Drones for commercial use are set to get the go ahead at long last this week, as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prepares to introduce new regulations governing their use. Don’t get too excited just yet though, as the new regulations are likely to limit flights to daytime only, and the drones must always ...
Azure Premium Storage gets new backup capabilities
Microsoft’s blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. overshadowed a lot of its other moves last week, but that didn’t stop it from pushing out a ton of cloud updates. The biggest move last week was that Azure Backup‘s data protection capabilities are now being offered for Premium Storage virtual machines (VMs). Microsoft’s Azure Premium Storage service ...
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 ...