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Microsoft may have just made DCI boxes obsolete
Microsoft may have just landed a death blow to the emerging data center interconnect (DCI) systems market, after developing an alternative to dedicated DCI boxes in partnership with little-known Inphi Corp., a vendor of optical components. These developments were revealed in an exclusive report by Light Reading, citing comments from Tom Issenhuth, Optical Network Architect ...
Cisco revamps engineering business around Cloud and IoT
Networking giant Cisco Systems Ltc. Has just announced a major restructuring of its engineering business unit under CEO Chuck Robbins. The reorganization, announced via an email to Cisco staff from Robbins, will see Cisco’s engineering efforts divided into four separate departments, namely: Applications and IoT, Cloud Services and Platforms, Network, and Security. In addition, 18-year ...
Google adds support for Node.js on App Engine
Google is showing Node.js some love by adding support for the open-source, cross-platform runtime environment on its App Engine service. As of today, Google now offers access to a Node.js runtime via App Engine, which the company says is ideal for hosting high-performance Web and mobile, front-end and back-end JavaScript-based applications. Google’s Node.js is current ...
Report: Marketers increasingly dependent on analytics tools
The average marketer’s skill set has changed dramatically in the last decade, as the use of analytics tools becomes an essential aspect of their daily tasks. That finding comes from Aplitude Inc.’s newly published 2016 State of Analytics Report, which found that the majority of analytics users are no longer data scientists, but rather mid-to-high ...
Microsoft intros new cloud storage plugin for Docker on Azure
Microsoft has made it easier to migrate containers between hosts on its Azure Cloud platform with the release of its new Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage, which allows Docker containers to have data volumes separate from their host. Azure File Storage is a cloud-based file sharing service based on the SMB 3.0 protocol ...
Microsoft’s SQL Server-on-Linux won’t arrive until next year
Microsoft has provided more details about its SQL-Server-on-Linux strategy, a previously unimaginable new coupling that will see Microsoft’s popular database software, SQL Server, appear on Linux operating systems for the first time. As my SiliconANGLE colleague James Farrell pointed out at the time Microsoft’s decision became public knowledge, the move is firmly aligned with CEO Satya ...
New York considers tax breaks for developers of open-source software
New York state’s assembly is set to consider a new bill that would provide tax breaks for open-source software developers. Senator Daniel Squadron (D)’s proposed NY senate bill S161, which is also sponsored by Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (D), will, if enabled, allow open-source software developers to claim back 20 percent of the expenses they incur ...
Google eyes triple acquisition of Shopify, Namely & Xactly to boost cloud portfolio
Google might be trailing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the public cloud, but the search giant-cum-infrastructure provider isn’t giving up the chase just yet – on the contrary, it’s all set to invest millions of dollars in order to build out its own offerings. Google’s cloud ambitions are well known. Late last year, ...
CoreOS bids to clean up container security with Clair 1.0
Container software maker CoreOS Inc. has often criticized its blue-chip rival Docker Inc. for security flaws, saying the CoreOS own design is a lot safer. Now, the company has gone a step further in its quest to secure containers with the general release of Clair 1.0, a dedicated container scanning tool that can detect security ...
Stack Overflow survey: JavaScript is No. 1, but Spark is where the big bucks are
Stack Overflow, the popular developer forum and online hangout, has just released the results of its 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, which is considered by many to be one of the best takes on the state of the software industry. More than 56,000 coders from 173 different countries responded to this year’s survey, which is ...