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Google’s Cloud Dataflow stomps on Apache Spark in new benchmark tests
Google will be feeling pretty pleased with itself after its Cloud Dataflow service outperformed the immensely popular Apache Spark data processing engine in a recent benchmark study carried out by Mammoth Data Inc. There’s a caveat of course, because Google hired Mammoth Data to carry out the Benchmarking Google Cloud Dataflow study on its data ...
Virtustream launches enterprise cloud storage platform | #emcworld
EMC Corp. subsidiary Virtustream yesterday launched its Storage Cloud platform at EMC World in Las Vegas. Available later this month, the Virtustream Cloud Platform is designed for large enterprises and the public sector, the announcement said. The platform is able to handle web-scale object storage and also extends to on-premises EMC storage to the cloud. ...
Microsoft to launch SQL Server 2016 on June 1
One year after Microsoft released its first public preview of SQL Server 2016, the company has announced its final release date. The software will hit general availability on June 1, with Microsoft positioning it against Oracle in terms of cost, security and speed. Microsoft is offering three flavors of its database management suite – Enterprise, ...
Iron Mountain launches Cloud Archive service with “near-infinite” scalability
Grand old data storage firm Iron Mountain Inc. has just launched a new cloud archive service that brings it up to speed with more youthful rivals like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, which have offered a similar service for some time already. Iron Mountain bills its Cloud Archive as a cost-efficient data repository for companies ...
Intel shuts down development of low-powered chips for mobile devices
Intel has finally accepted defeat in the mobile chip world after repeatedly losing out to ARM-based SoCs made by the likes of Qualcomm Inc. The chip maker, which last week announced its laying off 12,000 of its staff amid a major reorganization that will see it focus its efforts on the cloud, data centers and ...
Rick Osterloh takes charge of Google’s new hardware division
Google has hired a new executive in the shape of Rick Osterloh to lead its hardware efforts. Osterloh, who was formerly president of Motorola Inc., will head up a new hardware division at Google that encompasses its Nexus smartphones, consumer hardware (which includes Chromebooks and the new Pixel C device for Android phones), Chromecast, Google ...
Microsoft adds Nano Servers to latest Windows Server 2016 preview
Microsoft has let another preview of Windows Server 2016 out the bag, saying this latest release is the first that’s “feature-complete”. Basically, it means that this version carried all of the features we can expect to find in the final build, though there are still a few bugs that need to be ironed out. Windows ...
Google’s Sundar Pichai eyes a shift from “mobile first” to “AI first”
New technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and the cloud will play a key role in shaping Google’s future, its CEO Sundar Pichai believes. Pichai’s comments came in a blog post yesterday that shared the company’s vision of the future with shareholders and the general public. The blog post was officially Google’s annual “Founder’s ...
Microsoft offers free support & consultations to Azure customers
They say that nothing is really free in life, so what to make of Microsoft’s brand new offer of one year’s free support for its Azure cloud? The Redmond firm announced yesterday that certain customers will be given 12 months of free support, so long as they purchase Azure Services under an Enterprise Agreement (EA) ...
Microsoft just bought 10 million strands of DNA
Microsoft’s madcap scientists are set to buy 10 million long oligonucleotides as they ramp up the company’s efforts at making DNA storage a viable proposition. Microsoft Research is buying the long oligonucleotides, which are laboratory-made DNA molecules, from a startup out of San Francisco called Twist Bioscience. The deal was announced yesterday, but no price ...