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Microsoft sheds new light on Windows 10 updates
Microsoft has infuriated dozens of system admins with the near-constant flow of updates its released for Windows 10 since the OS launched last year. In particular, people are miffed about the veil of secrecy that comes with these system updates, which could potentially make some critical changes without anyone’s knowledge. The problem is that Microsoft ...
Looker revs up analytics on Hadoop with support for Presto & Spark SQL
Business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. is tapping into Hadoop’s processing power for data analytics with a new update that provides support for Presto and Spark SQL. Santa Cruz, CA-based Looker’s platform is described by the company as a “browser-based development environment for business intelligence”. The platform is built atop of Looker’s proprietary programming ...
Microsoft intros Enterprise State Roaming on Windows 10
Microsoft has rolled out a public preview of “Enterprise State Roaming”, a new feature in Windows 10 that allows enterprise users to sync settings across multiple devices. The feature promises to give companies greater organizational control over their OS settings and application-state data when using Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory service. Enterprise State Roaming is currently ...
Docker gets minimalist with plan to migrate images to Alpine Linux
Rumor has it that Docker Inc., the company behind Docker containers, is planning to switch from Ubuntu to the lightweight Alpine Linux OS as the host environment for Docker images. The story came to our attention by way of The VAR Guy, who spotted a comment from Solomon Hykes, founder and CTO of Docker, in ...
Microsoft piles more dev tools into Azure Stack
It was only last month that Microsoft launched its Azure Stack cloud-in-a-box system, but already the company has pushed out a major update featuring several new tools for its code base. Microsoft built Azure Stack with larger enterprises in mind, giving them a new option to run a hybrid cloud system with Azure’s capabilities hosted ...
Docker 1.10 doubles down on container security
Docker Inc. pushed the latest version of its container engine technology late last week. Docker 1.10 comes with a strong focus on security, with the main updates being the addition of secure computing features and user namespace technology. Secure Computing, called “seccomp” by Docker, is a new piece of code integrated into the Linux kernel ...
Foxconn to acquire Sharp in $5.6bn deal
Troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp Corporation is set to be acquired by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., better known as “Foxconn”, at the end of this month. Unlike similar multi-billion dollar acquisitions that are usually leaked to the press first, news of this particular deal came straight from the horse’s mouth. Foxconn CEO ...
Enthusiasm for OpenStack abounds, but old worries won’t go away
The vast majority of IT pros are keen to adopt OpenStack, but many are wary of the challenges in doing so, according to a new study sponsored by SUSE Linux. The report, which was carried out by U.K. research firm Dynamic Markets Ltd., warns that positive sentiment about OpenStack could be washed away by pitfalls ...
CoreOS launches an alternative to Docker with Rocket 1.0 release
CoreOS Inc. has been working away on an alternative container runtime system for more than a year, and yesterday it finally took the lid off of Rocket (rkt) 1.0. The new release is the only stable container runtime engine that meets the Open Container Initiative (OCI)’s container image specification and also its own App Container ...
Proposed Dell/EMC merger slapped with another lawsuit
An optimistic New York law firm is hoping to make a name for itself by blocking the proposed $67 billion mega-merger between Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. The GrantLawFirm, run by Lynda J. Grant, asserts that the Dell-EMC merger prospectus contains numerous “materially false and misleading statements and omissions of material fact”, in an amended ...