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Red Hat Inc. wants to help organizations deploy private clouds faster, and to that end has just unveiled a new tool called the QuickStart Cloud Installer (QCI) that should make it possible. The new installer comes just one week after the company …
Salesforce’s Einstein deep learning platform aims to bring AI to the masses
Salesforce.com Inc.’s plans to enhance its sales and marketing software with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities were first leaked by company CEO Marc Benioff several weeks ago. But yesterday’s unveiling of Salesforce Einstein still caught everyone by surprise, stealing the show from rival firm …
Report: Enterprises too complacent about growing cyber-attacks
Cyber-attacks are increasing in frequency and severity with each year that passes, but a large number of enterprises large and small appear to be assuming that “it won’t happen to us.” In a report published by Juniper Research this week, 86 percent …
Microsoft now has the most open-source contributors on GitHub
Microsoft Corp. sent shockwaves through the tech world a couple of years back when it first began seriously embracing open-source software, and now the company can proudly boast that it has the largest number of contributors to projects on GitHub. The Git …
Dell EMC unveils all-flash software-defined storage network
Dell Technologies Inc. has released its first product following its $67 billion swallow of EMC Corp. in the shape of a new software-defined storage (SDS) offering. Called ScaleIO Ready Node, it’s an all-flash SDS product that runs on Dell EMC PowerEdge x86 …
Gartner forecasts explosive growth in public, private cloud services
Gartner Inc. reckons the global market for public cloud services will grow by 17 percent this year. The research firm said in its latest report that the market for cloud services, worth $178 billion in 2015, will surge to $208.6 billion by the …
Unravel Data emerges from stealth to clean up the Big Data stack
One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the core and a clutch of associated platforms …
Dell-HPE battle rages on as server market revenues fall
The newly merged Dell Technologies Inc. has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. in servers in terms of units shipped, but HPE continues to lead the field in revenues, according to new reports from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. (IDC). The report comes …
Scala developers lead the way in container, microservices adoption
Scala developers are inching ahead of Java developers when it comes to microservices and cloud-native apps. But according to a new survey by Lightbend Inc., the main backer of the Scala project, both camps also indicate that containers are set to cause …
Evernote to take up residence in Google’s cloud
Evernote has said it will migrate its entire infrastructure onto Google’s Cloud Platform. The deal is a big win for the search giant’s effort to make headway against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the leaders in public cloud computing. In a …