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Most businesses ‘lack visibility’ into the public cloud
Public cloud adoption is exploding, but a new industry survey reveals that many are struggling to see an immediate return on their investments due to a lack of visibility, monitoring and infrastructure control in their environments. ScienceLogic, Inc.‘s Trends in Global Cloud Adoption survey of more than 1,600 IT pros found that a massive 83 ...
HPE & Microsoft to collaborate on Cloud, Mobility & Windows 10
Following its split from HP Inc. last month, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has wasted little time in reinforcing its warm relationship with Microsoft, announcing a new collaboration to push Windows 10 solutions to enterprises worldwide. The two companies said they’ll collaborate in three areas, namely in cloud, mobility and productivity. It’s a move that echoes the ...
AWS now offering dedicated servers for your eyes only
Amazon Web Services is offering its customers the chance to rent out “physical servers fully dedicated for your use” via a new service called EC2 Dedicated Hosts. The new service gives companies the option of running licensed software on multiple AWS virtual machines cooked up in a single server. It’s a big difference from the ...
IBM open-sources its SystemML machine learning tech
IBM has fulfilled its promise to open-source SystemML, a machine learning system that’s now been accepted as an Apache Incubator project. It’s a significant milestone for SystemML, which is already used to power IBM’s BigInsights data analytics platform. The Apache Incubator program is a kind of stepping stone on the way to becoming a full ...
Intel swoops on Qualcomm’s Venkata Renduchintala to lead its IoT biz
Chip-maker king Intel has swooped to hire the former executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., barely 24 hours after he left his old employer. Dr Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala has been appointed as the president of Intel’s newly created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, which accounts for the bulk ...
Gartner: Windows 10 adoption to outpace that of Windows 7
Gartner Inc. is predicting good times ahead for Windows 10, saying it fully expects to see an upsurge in enterprise rollouts of the operating system in the first six months of next year. Most enterprises will begin with pilot rollouts before broadening their deployments later in the year. By the beginning of 2017, Gartner says ...
NASA proposes FireSat system to detect wildfires from space
NASA says it wants to build a vast new constellation of satellites to monitor and protect the Earth, and it’s turning to an unlikely source of funding – through Kickstarter – in order to do so. But before you start panicking, realize that NASA isn’t turning to crowdfunding to ward of the threat of alien ...
Windows Server 2016 preview offers first glimpse of Hyper-V containers
Microsoft has hit a milestone with the inclusion of Hyper-V containers, a new technology designed to support containerized applications, in the fourth technical preview of the upcoming Windows Server 2016 operating system. The release is Microsoft’s attempt to cater to the rapidly growing number of enterprise CIOs who’re setting their sights on container technologies as ...
Jolla’s lost its jolly: Layoffs loom as funding dries up
Finnish mobile maker Jolla has fallen on hard times, just two years after the company debuted the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, an alternative operating system based on Nokia’s old MeeGo platform, whose inventors hoped would become the ‘third’ major mobile operating system. Jolla’s Chairman and co-founder Antii Saarnio admitted last this weekend that the ...
Federal data center consolidation plan goes awry with 2,000 ‘forgotten’ facilities
It turns out that the U.S government’s much-hyped data center consolidation program has spectacularly failed, despite earlier claims that federal agencies had saved around $3.6 billion between 2011 and 2014 by closing down data centers and migrating to the cloud. The stark news came after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed it had been made ...