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A third of all IT infrastructure spending now goes to the cloud
The analysts from International Data Corp. (IDC) have just published their latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, and it shows that around a third of all IT infrastructure spending is now being thrown at the cloud. According to IDC, enterprises spent a total of $7.6 billion cloud IT infrastructure in the third quarter of ...
Amazon could be about to start shipping containers (really)
Evidence has emerged that Amazon.com Inc., could be about to get into the freight business and start shipping container loads of goodies across the seven seas. The ‘evidence’ comes via The Register, which spotted this blog post from Ryan Peterson, CEO of a freight shipping company called Flexport. In his post, Peterson reveals he’s stumbled ...
MapR offers up Big Data test drives on the AWS Cloud
Big Data vendor MapR Technologies Inc. has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its customers the chance to test drive versions of Dataguise DgSecure, HPE Vertica and Apache Drill & TIBCO Spotfire via AWS on its Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark platforms. Called “MapR and AWS Test Drives for Big Data solutions”, ...
Intel beats Wall Street estimates in Q4 earnings results
Intel had rare cause for celebration yesterday afternoon when it posted stronger-than-expected fourth quarter profits, showing it’s still a force to be reckoned with even though it’s failed to gain a foothold in the mobile device market. The chipmaker pulled in $3.6 billion in net profit, amounting to $0.74 per share, on revenues of $14,9 ...
Yahoo has just made a massive 13.5TB machine learning dataset available
Yahoo has just handed over what it claims is the world’s largest-ever machine learning dataset to the academic research community through its ongoing program, Yahoo Labs Webscope. The company said it’s hopeful that the release will encourage more people – not just data scientists and researchers – to try their arm at machine learning. “Our ...
AWS to build new data center facilities in Canada
Amazon Web Services might be the leader in the public cloud in terms of revenue, but it still trails its biggest rival Microsoft when it comes to its the physical reach of its cloud. The location of data centers is rapidly becoming an important factor for many cloud customers who care about where their data ...
Google’s autonomous cars can’t be trusted yet
Google’s self-driving cars are still some way from becoming roadworthy, according to a new report the company prepared for the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The report, which looks at all of the test drives said cars undertook from September 24, 2014 to November 30, 2015, reveals that human drivers had to take over control ...
PC vendors struggle for breath as shipments slump by 9%
The “Big Two” analyst firms, Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. (IDC), have proclaimed that 2015 was a disastrous year for the PC, with both reporting steep declines in shipments over the last year. The analysts also note that neither Windows 10 nor Christmas failed to boost sales as much as vendors would have liked. ...
Databricks could be headed for an IPO amid leadership changes
Speculation is mounting that Databricks Inc., the company behind the Apache Spark cluster computing framework, might be headed for an IPO or perhaps even more after it announced a change of leadership this week. The company quietly appointed Ali Ghodsi, its vice president of engineering and product, as its new chief executive officer on Monday. ...
Public cloud costs fall 66% in 2 years as competition intensifies
Entry-level prices for cloud computing are now 66 percent cheaper than they were just two years ago, thanks to providers continually slashing costs in the face of increased competition. Tariff Consulting’s (TCL) newly released Pricing the Cloud 2 – 2016 to 2020 report shows that the average entry-level cloud instance now costs just $0.12 per ...