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Drones for commercial use are set to get the go ahead at long last this week, as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) prepares to introduce new regulations governing their use. Don’t get too excited just yet though, as the new regulations …
Azure Premium Storage gets new backup capabilities
Microsoft’s blockbuster acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. overshadowed a lot of its other moves last week, but that didn’t stop it from pushing out a ton of cloud updates. The biggest move last week was that Azure Backup‘s data protection capabilities are now …
Microsoft launches dedicated tool to remove ‘bloatware’ from Windows 10
Anyone who’s bought a new personal computer or laptop recently will likely be familiar with the “bloatware” that OEMs increasingly love pre-installing on their machines along with Windows 10. Unfortunately for us, this bloatware is not only annoying but can also have …
Perspica launches new analytics tool for DevOps
One of the fastest growing use cases for machine learning is providing insights into how software releases in a continuous delivery cycle affect overall IT operations. Keeping with that theme, software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor Perspica Inc. has just released a new analytics platform …
Containers are on fire as enterprises ramp up adoption
Container technology is rapidly transforming the way enterprises develop and deliver applications, and adoption is set to ramp up spectacularly in the next year, even as obstacles towards adoption persist. A new report from the Cloud Foundry Foundation, Hope Versus Reality: Containers …
Portworx ships out enterprise-grade container storage solution
Container technology has come a long way in such a short space of time, and has already done much to transform the deployment of applications. But storage has so far been unable to keep pace, because its difficult to scale up with …
Marc Benioff reveals Salesforce also tried to buy LinkedIn
LinkedIn Corp.’s stunning $26.2 billion price tag led to speculation that Microsoft may have been caught up in a bidding war in order to acquire the professional networking site. Now, Salesforce.com, Inc. CEO Marc Benioff has admitted that he did indeed make …
Microsoft enhances its Blockchain-as-a-Service offering with new middleware
Microsoft first launched its Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service option in November of last year. Now, the company is extending the offering with a bunch of new tools that enable developers to build an entire ecosystem of enterprise applications atop of the service. The newly …
Cavium acquires QLogic to beef up its data center portfolio
Data center chip specialist Cavium Inc. has just acquired QLogic Corp. with a view to taking on rivals Intel, Broadcom Corporation and Mellanox Technologies in the storage and networking arena. The billion-dollar plus deal pairs one of the fastest-growing semiconductor manufacturers with …
Samsung reaches for the cloud with Joyent acquisition
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Is ambitiously eying up the cloud with the purchase of Joyent Inc., which has previously raised $125 million in funding from sources like Intel Capital and Peter Thiel. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Joyent Inc. …