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IBM’s Rometty snags a $4.5m bonus
IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty is to be “rewarded” for 15 straight quarters of declining sales and the slow but sure erosion of the firm’s share price with a not inconsiderable $4.5 million bonus. Rometty, whose base salary amounts to $1.6 million a year, actually declined to accept last year’s $3.6 million bonus, saying that she ...
Obama to launch $4bn tech education initiative
President Obama has called on Congress to approve a new $4 billion spending plan that would see computer science taught to all elementary, middle and high school students in the U.S. Obama announced his three-year initiative, called “Computer Science for All” during last week’s radio address. He said the $4 billion would be given to ...
Ubuntu lands on Microsoft’s hybrid Azure Stack
Microsoft has made Ubuntu available on the technical preview of Azure Stack, it’s newly release private and hybrid cloud bundle for on-premises deployment. Released earlier this week, Azure Stack is a technology bundle that allows customers to build the Azure Cloud in their own data centers. And although you’ll need some pretty sophisticated hardware to ...
Gartner: Most enterprises are gearing up for Windows 10
Microsoft is willing to go to all kinds of lengths to push PC users onto Windows 10, but its new operating system is already seeing significant success in the enterprise, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The analyst firm says an unprecedented number of businesses are evaluating Windows 10 with an eye to ...
Wal-Mart takes OneOps off the shelf, sticks it on GitHub
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is getting into the open-source game, unleashing the code for its cloud management and application lifecyle platform OneOps on GitHub for the entire world to slice and dice. For those who’re unfamiliar, OneOps is platform for developers to build and launch their cloudy apps across a variety of platforms and ...
Microsoft looks to the cloud as revenues dip
Microsoft’s cloud transformation remains on track, with its latest quarterly earnings offering more encouragement even as the tech giant saw its overall revenues dip. The big news from the call was Microsoft Azure’s fantastic performance – revenues jumped by 127 percent from one year ago, with sales of Azure Premium Services like Machine Learning tripling ...
Lyft’s drivers agree to drop “employee” claims in return for $12.25m pay out
Ride hailing app Lyft Inc. looks to have ended a class-action battle between itself and its drivers yesterday after agreeing to settle out of court for $12.25 million. The settlement, which still needs to be ratified by Judge Vince Chhabria of the California Northern US District Court, would bring to an end a battle which ...
Salesforce updates App Cloud with Heroku Enterprise
Salesforce.com, Inc., made a big announcement yesterday with the launch into general availability of Heroku Enterprise in a new update for its App Cloud. Salesforce first outlined what to expect from Heroku Enterprise at its Dreamforce conference back in September 2015, describing it as the company’s enterprise-grade platform-as-a-service offering. It said that Heroku Enterprise would ...
EMC reports flat Q4 as Dell takeover looms
Following its fourth quarter earnings call yesterday, storage giant EMC Corp. saw it’s shares fall to the lowest level since it announced to the world that it would be acquired by Dell Inc. in a blockbuster $67 billion deal. EMC’s earnings were more or less in line with Wall Street’s expectations, with overall revenues declining ...
SAP strikes alliance with Lenovo to push Hana in China
German enterprise software giant SAP SE is hoping to crack the Chinese market through a tie up with Lenovo Group Ltd. that will see the two firms develop a number of cloud offerings for local firms. The deal is an important one for SAP, as it marks the first serious push of its Hana database ...