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Microsoft to open up Minecraft world for AI developers through open-source AIX program
Microsoft has said it’s going to make its AIX platform for testing artificial intelligence projects open-source. AIX is currently used by Microsoft Research, Redmond’s boffin lab, and is also available as a private beta to a select bunch of academic researchers. The platform allows researchers to test their AI research in the unstructured play mode ...
Docker’s Swarm smashes Kubernetes in Docker-sponsored benchmark tests
What with container technology still relatively new, practitioners are still debating which orchestration platform is the best to use. Now Docker Inc. is weighing into the debate to push its Swarm platform as the number one choice, and has just published results of a new benchmark test that highlights its advantages over the competing Kubernetes ...
Google transfers Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an organization which just came into existence last year, has said it’s selected Google’s Kubernetes container orchestration tool as its first containerization technology. The CNCF, which boasts the full support of the Linux Foundation, said Kubernetes is just the first of many open-source tools it’s planning to support. The ...
Servers are selling like hot cakes again
Servers sold like hot cakes in the last year, with vendors shifting a record 9.7 million units in 2015, raking in revenues of $55.1 billion for their efforts. International Data Corp. (IDC) said in its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker that this amounted to an eight percent increase in revenues and 4.9 percent more shipments than ...
Google said OCP is “not relevant”, so why is it signing up now?
Google raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when it finally signed up to Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP) initiative, almost five years after it was first launched. Upon joining the effort, Google immediately contributed its first design – a set of specifications for a 48V rack power distribution unit, along with a new form ...
Microsoft launches its Dynamics AX ERP suite into the clouds
Microsoft’s cloud-based ERP software Dynamics AX has now been rolled out to customers worldwide, the company said. Dynamics AX becomes the latest Microsoft product to be shifted to the software-as-a-service model, and now integrates with the company’s other cloud services, such as Power BI. It underlines Microsoft’s determination to eventually shift all of its products ...
Rackspace revamps its OnMetal Cloud servers
Rackspace Inc. has rejigged its OnMetal Cloud Server lineup to deliver enhanced performance and connectivity to meet the needs of customers that require greater compute power, more intensive data processing and faster scaling and deployment capabilities. Rackspace’s OnMetal v2 Cloud Servers went into general availability on Thursday, the company said. The basic premise is the ...
“Ransomware” is now the #1 threat to the enterprise
Botnets are no longer in vogue, with so-called ransomware having overtaken them as the main threat to enterprises. Security outfit Trend Micro Inc. said that its analysis shows that file-encrypting ransomware accounted for 83 percent of all “data extortion” attacks in the fourth quarter of 2015. The most notorious strain of ransomware is known as ...
Juniper & Lenovo forge hyper-converged alliance
Juniper Networks Inc. has struck an alliance with China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., that will see the two companies work together to build a number of converged, hyper-converged and hyper-scale data center infrastructure products aimed at the enterprise. It’s an interesting if somewhat unexciting move, but one that has the potential to become a big deal. ...
Google jumps in bed with Facebook’s Open Compute Project
A few years ago, Facebook became the first “Web giant” to realize that data center infrastructure vendors were going to be unable to keep up with its computing requirements. In response, it launched a new project to redesign its data centers so they were not only scalable to meet its needs, but were also more ...