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Google Search boss Amit Singhal retires, to be replaced by AI chief
In a sign of how important Google views artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the company has just announced that its AI chief John Giannandrea will take over as senior vice president of Search from the soon-to-retire Amit Singhal, who currently occupies the position. Singhal, who Re/Code describes as “an incredibly powerful figure” at Google, gave notice ...
Microsoft launches Azure IoT Hub out of beta
Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub, a cloud-based service for managing and communicating with Internet of Things devices, is set to become generally available later today. The Azure IoT Hub is a central aspect of Azure’s IoT Suite of products that can be used to develop and run applications built for connected devices. Launched in preview last ...
SDN is rapidly consuming the enterprise, survey finds
A rapid rise in production deployments means that software-defined networking (SDN) is moving beyond the ‘hype’ phase to take the enterprise “by storm” according to a new report. The survey, SDN Growth Takes IT Infrastructure by Storm, found that 39 percent of respondents have or plan to use SDN within their IT environments within the ...
Yahoo says “adieu” to 15 percent of its staff
Yahoo! Inc. yesterday confirmed rumors that it’s to layoff 15 percent of its workforce and close down some of its online services as part of a major new turnaround plan. The struggling Web giant plans to focus its efforts on Mail, Search and Tumblr, while shutting down digital magazines and services like Yahoo! Games and ...
Google’s cloud gets flashy, but no word on revenues
Google has gone and boosted the capacity of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform in what can only be interpreted as a bid to tempt more customers to try and its cloudy wares. Details of Google’s new cloud offerings were shared in this blog post from John Barrus, senior product manager for Google Cloud Platform, along ...
Google open-sources its Seesaw load-balancing software
Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using Google’s Go programming language. It’s now available for anyone to download over at GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license. It’s fair to say ...
Microsoft ramps up Enterprise Agreement volume licensing requirements
Microsoft has announced a major rule change regarding its Enterprise Agreements that comes into effect on July 1, 2016, as it slowly drags its licensing model out of the Dark Ages. As of the above date, business customers that wish to sign an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft will have to meet its new minimum requirement ...
Yahoo set to axe 1,600 staff in cost-cutting exercise
Yahoo! Inc. is set to announce a major round of layoffs that could comprise up to 15 percent of its total workforce, when it announces its four quarter earnings later today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The report follows a similar story by Business Insider last month, which said Yahoo was looking to layoff ...
Microsoft looks to ‘FastTrack’ small businesses to Office 365
Microsoft has revamped its FastTrack service offering in an bid to get more small businesses to use its Office 365 productivity suite. The offer is available to businesses with over fifty employees, who will be able to access resources from Microsoft’s FastTrack Center, and seek assistance from a specialist FastTrack team engineer to help them ...
Microsoft adds DevTest Labs to Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service
Microsoft has announced another major boost to its Azure cloud computing platform in the shape of its new DevTest Labs integration, aimed at helping developers test their blockchain-based applications. “Blockchain technologies will become even easier to build and test using Azure’s DevTest Labs currently in preview,” wrote Marley Gray, director of Technology Strategy at Microsoft ...