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Hyperconverged platforms to go “mainstream” by 2019, Gartner says
A new industry forecast from Gartner Inc. shows that it’s all coming together in the world of hyperconverged integrated systems (HCIS). Garner’s latest forecast shows that the HCIS market is positively booming, on track to be worth $5 billion by 2019. Gartner calls HCIS the world’s fastest growing market for integrated IT systems, and says ...
Amazon nabs cognitive computing expert Ashwin Ram to head up AI efforts
Amazon.com, Inc’s efforts in artificial intelligence research are about to be given a boost by the incredibly sharp mind of one Ashwin Ram, an ex-Palo Alto Research Center Inc. (better known as “Xerox PARC”) employee and a researcher in cognitive science, who’s just joined its AI R&D team. Amazon hasn’t said anything official about the ...
Intel’s Brian Krzanich to chair FAA’s new drone council
Brian Krzanich has been a massive proponent of drones ever since taking over the CEO’s chair at Intel Corp. almost three years ago. During that time he’s spoken about the merits of the technology at numerous shows, shown off the company’s RealSense 3D camera technology to anyone that will listen, invested in numerous drone makers ...
Windows 10 won’t be free after July 29, and the nagware’s gonna stop too
Microsoft has been busy reminding all and sundry this weekend that its year-long free upgrade to Windows 10 offer is about to expire. After July 29 passes, those who suddenly remember they want to upgrade will have to pay $119 for the privilege, assuming its just the Home edition you need. That news probably won’t ...
eBay snaps up AI-powered Expertmaker to clean up its messy listings
eBay has a problem: Its website is just too damn messy, and its search capabilities aren’t powerful enough. As a result, users are forced to wade through pages and pages of listings to find the exact item they’re looking for. That could push a lot of customers to rivals like Amazon.com, Inc., which is why ...
Apple taps into SAP for more enterprise clout
Apple is looking to further its involvement in the enterprise via a new partnership with German IT giant SAP SE. The partnership will see the two firms create native apps for the iPhone and iPad that tap into SAP’s flagship HANA in-memory computing platform. There will also be a new iOS software development kit. SAP’s ...
Alibaba claims AliCloud is “one of the largest cloud providers in the world”
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s cloud computing arm AliCloud is doing very nicely in its bid to become the AWS of Asia, reporting stunning growth of 138 percent in 2016 that saw it pull in $468 million in revenues. AliCloud said that it had more than 2.3 million customers as of March 31, 2016. Of those, ...
Dell/EMC merger: Customer impact will be minimal in the short-term, but long-term doubts remain
Huge tasks still face both Dell Inc. and EMC since the former announced it planned to acquire the latter in a $67 billion deal last October. Dell still needs to close $57 billion in financing, EMC’s shareholders need to approve the deal and so do China’s regulators. Nonetheless, both Michael Dell and EMC’s executives were ...
SmartUX Studio lets you transform legacy apps to mobile ones
Enterprises desperately want to build more mobile apps for their businesses, but many are unable to do so due to a lack of resources. Now, to help smaller enterprises solve this dilemma, a startup called PowWow Mobile has created a new platform for building apps faster, using less code. PowWow Mobile’s SmartUX Platform helps developers ...
VMware touts new feature-lite versions of NSX
VMware Inc. is hoping to squeeze a few extra dollars from its NSX offering by amping up the price tag, and offering cheaper, “feature-lite” versions of the product with less features. NSX is an offering that VMware pitches at customers wanting to create their own software-define data centers. NSX helps out in that respect by ...