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Chef cooks up a new open-source application automation project
Configuration management platform vendor Chef Software Inc. is turning its attention to application automation with the creation of a new open-source project called Habitat that allows developers to package their applications and run them on a wide variety of infrastructures. What Habitat does is to wrap applications up inside their own lightweight runtime environments, so they can ...
Microsoft talks up integration with LinkedIn, but will users care?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went to great lengths to try and justify his decision to shell out $26.2 billion to buy LinkedIn Corp. In a press conference yesterday, and also in a letter to Microsoft staff, Nadella explained that he believes integrating LinkedIn’s database with the company’s products will not only improve their functionality, but ...
After LinkedIn, will Twitter be the next takeover target?
Rumors are swirling that Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. may make Twitter a more likely takeover target, with some analysts claiming such a deal will be “inevitable” if it’s unable to turn itself around any time soon. It seems that investors are saying the same thing to themselves – Twitter’s stock surged four ...
Google just made tons of new enemies with its support for the TPP
Google’s decision to come out in support of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is unlikely to win the company many new friends, and will provide further ammunition to those who say the company has long since gone back on its famed “Don’t be evil” motto. Google’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent ...
Dell earnings: Sales slip, driving revenues down as EMC merger nears
Dell Inc. doesn’t report its finances these days, but its parent company Denal Holding Inc. does, and its latest figures show that the IT giant had an unremarkable fiscal first quarter of 2017. Denali reported its revenues dropped by three percent year on year to $12.6 billion, although it did manage to greatly reduce operating ...
DevOps increasingly embracing AI systems, but security fears persist
Developers are increasingly adopting intelligent, automated systems in the data center as they seek to offload manual processes in order to keep up with the accelerating pace of IT operations. That conclusion was taken from a new survey of IT executives about the adoption of intelligent, AI-based systems and machines in the enterprise. However, the ...
France launches terror alert app for Euro 2016 finals
The government of France has released a new terror alert app ahead of the Euro 2016 soccer championship finals, designed to warn users of imminent attacks, threats and other dangers. Called SAIP ((Système d’alerte et d’information des populations), the app was released just two days before the Euro 2016 finals kick off on June 10, ...
Salesforce bets on citizen developers to build the next wave of business apps
If there’s any truth to the idea that every company is a software company, then perhaps every company employee needs to learn how to create software. Or at least that’s what Salesforce.com, Inc., seems to believe. The company made a major announcement around the theme of ‘citizen developers’ earlier this week at its TrailheaDX developer ...
HPE leads in cloud infrastructure space, Cisco not far behind
Cisco Systems Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) continue to duke it out for supremacy in the cloud infrastructure market, with the latter company gaining a slight edge over the former, according to new research from Synergy Research Group. Synergy’s latest note is based on the most recent Q1 data, and shows that Cisco ...
Midokura grabs $20.4m, eyes leadership in the SDN space
Network virtualization specialist Midokura has just raised $20.4 million in Series B funding in order to fuel further growth in a highly competitive market. The round was led by Japanese investment firm Simplex Inc., with participation from previous investor Innovation Network Corp., and Allen Miner, a Midokura director. The round brings Midokura’s total funding to ...