Azure cloud to trial 4K and HDR video streams
Microsoft is to begin trialling 4K Ultra-High Definition (UHD) and HDR video streams following via its Azure Media Services, a part of the Azure cloud. “Today I am pleased to announce that we are…
Report: Dell to lay off 2,000-3,000 employees after EMC deal
Dell Technologies Inc. is expected to lay-off between 2,000 and 3,000 workers following the completion of its blockbuster $67 billion EMC Corp. acquisition. But that number could climb even higher if the newly merged…
Microsoft beefs up Azure Backup with enterprise-grade policy management
Microsoft is claiming that its backup and disaster recovery service for its Azure cloud platform is now and enterprise-grade contender for workloads and data already stored in its cloud. The Redmond-based company has announced…
Microsoft updates Windows 10 IoT Core with new developer-centric features
After getting its Windows 10 Anniversary Update out of the door, Microsoft is now focused on the next major update for its Windows 10 IoT Core platform for the Internet of Things. This week,…
Salesforce intros Lightning Bolt for building online communities
Salesforce.com Inc. has just added a new service called Lightning Bolt that’s designed to make it easier for companies to create customized online communities with industry-specific design and functionality. “The new Lightning Bolt framework…
T. Rowe Price wants to block Oracle’s $9.3B Netsuite acquisition
One of NetSuite Inc.’s major shareholders has come out in opposition to its proposed $9.3 billion acquisition by Oracle Corp. Oracle announced the deal to buy the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) giant in July, following weeks…
IBM study: Hybrid cloud dominates in the enterprise
Hybrid cloud environments are now the dominant architecture in the enterprise, a new IBM study has found. The popularity of hybrid clouds has emerged as many companies migrate workloads to the cloud while keeping…
Yahoo open-sources Pulsar, a low-latency alternative to Apache Kafka
Yahoo! Inc. has open-sourced a new distributed “publish and subscribe” messaging system called Pulsar that’s capable of scaling out while maintaining low latencies. Yahoo has long used Pulsar to back some of its own…
Microsoft powers up its first U.K. data center regions
Microsoft customers based in the U.K. can now access local data center facilities for the first time, after the cloud giant announced the opening of new hosting locations for Azure and Office 365 in…
ScyllaDB revamps NoSQL database in 1.3 release
ScyllaDB has released into general availability a major update to its popular NoSQL database of the same name. Announced at the first annual “Scylla Summit” at the Hilton San Jose yesterday, the company boldly…