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Gartner shows PC vendors how to boost their profits
Everybody has known for ages that the PC market, while perhaps not quite doomed, is certainly going through a long period of decline which it’s unlikely to bounce back from. Tech industry analysts including Gartner Inc., and International Data Corp. (IDC) have both said so, on more than one occasion, but now the former is ...
VMware ditches Windows for all-new HTML 5 vSphere client
VMware Inc., says admins will soon only be able to operate vSphere from its HTML 5 client, because it’s about to stop developing its Windows client. In a blog post announcing the decision, VMware points out that it’s already adopted HTML 5 clients for many of its other products. It held back on vSphere because ...
Cisco breezes past Wall Street’s expectations with solid Q3
There was a lot of apprehension in investor’s circles ahead of Cisco Systems Inc.’s third-quarter earnings report, but those worries were exaggerated. Once again, Cisco blew past Wall Street’s expectations, with its share price surging by six percent in after-hours trading following its earnings call. For investors, Wednesday’s report can be seen as a green light ...
MapR’s new Quick Migration Service makes jumping ship hassle-free
Most technology vendors are keen to ‘steal’ customers from rival companies, but the complexity of software installations means that it’s difficult to do so, because most enterprises just don’t feel it’s worth all the hassle. At least, that’s how it used to be, but now some vendors have taken it upon themselves to make migrating ...
Cazena’s big data-as-a-service offering lands on Azure
Big data-as-a-service startup (BDaaS) Cazena Inc., which burst onto the scene just last year, has said its flagship offering can now be used with Microsoft Azure, giving customers faster access to on-demand data processing and analytics. Cazena is betting that support for Azure will be attractive to the thousands of enterprises that currently use Microsoft’s ...
Microsoft makes one last, extremely deceptive Windows 10 upgrade push
Windows 7 and 8 users beware: Microsoft has launched one last aggressive push aimed at getting as many folks to update to Windows 10 as it possibly can, before the expiration of its free upgrade offer. News of Microsoft’s renewed push comes from Computerworld, which reports the company has switched the offered Windows 10 download ...
AWS hires PHP legend Andi Gutmans to nurture its next-generation NoSQL database
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved something of a coup by hiring Zend Technologies Ltd. co-founder and PHP scripting language pioneer Andi Gutmans to lead its NoSQL database development efforts. Gutmans, whose LinkedIn profile describes him as general manager of AWS’ NoSQL Group inside the company’s data services unit, says that he’s now “working on the ...
Google says most of its containers now run on Chromium-based Container-VM
Google has revealed that it prefers using its own Chromium OS operating system to run containers in its own cloud, and that it’s the primary choice for running its own services. Google yesterday lifted the lid off a new OS called “Container-VM”, which it says is a “container-optimized OS image for the Google Cloud Platform ...
Microsoft enables Power BI’s Q&A feature with on-premises data
Users of Microsoft’s cloud-based business intelligence (BI) suite Power BI can now query on-premises data sources to gain business insights simply by asking it in plain English. Power BI’s hallmark Q&A feature has been updated to carry out natural-language queries on all on-premises data sources linked by Power BI Enterprise Gateway, beginning with SQL Server ...
Ask Wikibon: What did we learn from OpenStack Summit 2016?
The OpenStack community has reached a tipping point. The project is branching out in multiple directions, away from its original premise as an infrastructure-as-a-service environment to rival the private cloud. But just how mature is OpenStack today? Are OpenStack private clouds now a realistic option? And how well is OpenStack itself aligned to the demands ...