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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 ...
vCloud Air boss Bill Fathers quits VMware
VMware Inc.’s top cloud executive Bill Fathers is stepping down as boss of vCloud Air after a three-year stint, Fortune reported on Wednesday. vCloud Air has struggled to gain traction in the cloud market under Father’s leadership, due to a lack of key features and fierce competition from leading vendors like Amazon Web Services and ...
Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things
Dell Inc. is looking to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio with the expertise of more than two dozen partners, including Microsoft and SAP SE. The company launched its IoT business unit just last year, introducing its new gateway device that’s able to collect, aggregate and analyze the enormous wave of data that billions ...
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich lays out his vision of the future
Last week was a pretty bad one for Intel, which saw its share price decline in the wake of news that it’s to layoff 12,000 employees, or about 11 percent of its total workforce, but that hasn’t hurt company CEO Brian Krzanich’s optimism one little bit. In a blog posted yesterday, the CEO attempted to ...
Dell’s government cloud services get a boost with FedRAMP certification
Dell Inc. has had its government cloud officially certified to show it meets federal cloud security standards, which should make it a lot easier for the company to start winning business from federal agencies. Dell joins a fairly short list of certification cloud providers that can now sell their wares to U.S. agencies without any ...
Spark rival Apache Apex hits top-level status
Apache Apex was yesterday moved up to become the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s latest top-level project. Apache Apex is an open-source stream and batch processing platform that’s compatible with HDFS and YARN, runs in-memory, and offers enhanced event processing and fault tolerance capabilities. Readers may be familiar with the name “Apex”, because the project started ...
Fake cyberattackers rake in over $100,000 with empty threats
It turns out you don’t even need to be a hacker to make a nice living from cybercrime. Instead, all you need to do is pretend to be one. An enterprising extortionist appears to have stolen the identity of a notorious hacking group that came to attention late last year, using their ‘brand’ to extort ...
Cloud control: OpenStack offers first admin certificatication
OpenStack works great – but only if you know what you’re doing. To ensure companies can get hold of people with the right stuff, it’s lifting the lid off of a new certification program. Called the Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam, it’s supposed to validate the skills cloud admins need to setup and manage OpenStack ...