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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 …
Microsoft makes video conferencing free with Skype Meetings
Microsoft is making it cheaper and easier for small businesses to conduct teleconferences and virtual meetings with its new Skype Meetings services, rolled out yesterday. A free service, Skype Meetings allows users to hold meetings with up to ten participants for the …
Corporate “no-cloud” policies to be extinct by 2020, Gartner says
Cloud computing is getting so pervasive throughout the enterprise that Gartner Inc. is predicting so-called “no-cloud” policies will become as rare as “no-Internet” stances in the near future. Gartner’s report, Market Insight: Cloud Computing’s Drive to Digital Business Creates Opportunities for Providers, …
Facebook tries to overcome language barriers with new multilingual composer tool
Facebook is betting on a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI) software to break down language barriers and bring its users closer together. The social media giant has just rolled out a new feature called “multilingual composer” for some user accounts, after …
Microsoft to “modernize” licensing with new Enterprise Advantage on MPSA
In an effort to simplify its often tortuous licensing agreements, Microsoft has created a new program called Enterprise Advantage on MPSA. The new program, which is absolutely not to be confused with existing Enterprise Agreements, will be offered to enterprises with an …