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Microsoft has done an about turn on its Windows 10 upgrades policy, saying it will refrain from using a controversial trick that’s believed to have deceived dozens of users into downloading the controversial new OS by mistake. The issue relates to how …
Red Hat’s JBoss jumps on the cloud native, container-friendly bandwagon
Red Hat Inc. has issued a major update to its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, focusing on better support for cloud-native applications and containers. Red Hat acquired JBoss just over a decade ago, and since that time the world of technology has evolved …
Microsoft unveils .NET Core 1.0, extends partnership with Red Hat
Microsoft has made good on a pledge it made back in November 2014 to open-source the core parts of its .NET framework and its cousin, the web-focused ASP.NET Core. The two products have now hit general availability with the release of versions …
No chance of Skynet: Forrester pours cold water on AI fears
Forrester Research Inc. has weighed into the debate on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and its potential to one day steal everyone’s jobs, definitively stating that it won’t happen, and that it’s highly unlikely robots will take over the world either. The analyst …
Pepperdata offers a free health check for Hadoop users
Enterprises are falling over themselves to gain a competitive advantage using sophisticated tools like Hadoop, But as powerful as this technology is, Hadoop-based projects can quickly become a nightmare when performance problems work their way into complex Big Data operations. Unidentifiable bottlenecks, …
Google tools up with its Spanner database, looks for a fight with AWS
Google is said to be mulling the idea of commercializing a highly scalable, globally distributed database technology known as “Spanner”, which the company has been using in its own data centers for several years to deliver many of its core services. The …
Intel looking to offload its Intel Security arm
Intel is considering a sale of its Intel Security division, and has already spoken with several bankers in a bid to find a suitable buyer, the Financial Times reports. Intel Security was created after Intel acquired the antivirus software maker McAfee Inc., …
After the hype: Where containers make sense for IT organizations
Container software and its related technologies are on fire, winning the hearts and minds of thousands of developers and catching the attention of hundreds of enterprises, as evidenced by the huge number of attendees at this week’s DockerCon 2016 event. The big …
Public cloud giants get security nod from FedRAMP
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the lesser known CSRA Inc. have landed a key authorization from the U.S. government that gives federal agencies permission to use their cloud-computing services to store highly sensitive data. The three companies’ clouds (AWS GovCloud, Azure …
Data Center survey shows enterprises waste little time in shifting to the cloud
The cloud is absolutely not a fad. Instead, enterprises are falling over themselves to have public cloud providers reduce the burden of managing their IT, according to the results of a new study by the Uptime Institute this week. Just over 50 …