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What with the rise of automation and increasingly mobile workforces, today’s workplace is rapidly evolving. But despite this, companies will need to employ older tactics if they wish to keep hold of their most talented employees – such as providing them with …
Microsoft issues pre-release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update
Microsoft rolled out another Windows build last week, ahead of the release of its planned Anniversary Update. Build 14383 of Windows 10 for both the PC and mobile versions was released to Windows Insiders, who’re essentially Microsoft’s test guinea pigs for new …
Microsoft COO Kevin Turner quits, will not be replaced
Microsoft has announced that long-serving COO Kevin Turner is to leave the company after 11 years. The company will not replace him, but will instead split his duties between five different executives. Turner exits Microsoft and heads directly to the financial trading …
Agriculture industry is ripe for robotic revolution
The impact of automation has already been felt in many sectors, but now it’s poised to shake up one of the oldest economic activities in the world – the agricultural sector. At present, robots are almost unheard of in farming due to …
Brexit begins to make its mark on IT spending
Brexit, the so-called British exit from the European Union, has already led to speculation that global IT markets may slump as the British pound slumped to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar. Now, Gartner Inc. has stepped up to confirm that …
Ubuntu lands on Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry
Pivotal Software, Inc. has said it will provide secure images of Canonical Ltd’s Ubuntu Linux distribution atop of its Cloud Foundry platform, in another move that highlights the steady shift towards cloud-native infrastructure. The new partnership was announced on Wednesday, when the …
Public cloud spending to grow by $23 billion in 2016
Yet more evidence that the future of IT lies in the cloud comes from International Data Corp. (IDC), which says public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will increase spending on data center hardware (such as servers, storage and Ethernet …
Machine learning is all the rage with Big Data developers
Machine learning has advanced to the point where it more or less goes hand-in-hand with Big Data. Indeed, so popular is the technology that over a third of developers – some 36 percent – who’re working on Big Data or advanced analytics …
Google rolls out Kubernetes 3.1 to advance containers in production
Today marks the release of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest edition of Google’s hit container cluster management solution. The new edition is available on GitHub and also in Google’s Container Engine Service. With Kubernetes 3.1, the focus is on delivering a more robust …
CoreOS’ key-value store etcd gets a major upgrade
Container software vendor CoreOS Inc. has just released the latest version of its distributed key-value platform “etcd”, which is used to store data in containers across clusters. The platform, which is already integrated with Google’s open-source Kubernetes, now includes new data model …