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Google is giving up yet another of its internal projects to the open-source world. Its latest contribution is called Seesaw, and it’s described as a load-balancing platform based on Linux built using Google’s Go programming language. It’s now available for anyone to …
Microsoft ramps up Enterprise Agreement volume licensing requirements
Microsoft has announced a major rule change regarding its Enterprise Agreements that comes into effect on July 1, 2016, as it slowly drags its licensing model out of the Dark Ages. As of the above date, business customers that wish to sign …
Yahoo set to axe 1,600 staff in cost-cutting exercise
Yahoo! Inc. is set to announce a major round of layoffs that could comprise up to 15 percent of its total workforce, when it announces its four quarter earnings later today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. The report follows a similar …
Microsoft looks to ‘FastTrack’ small businesses to Office 365
Microsoft has revamped its FastTrack service offering in an bid to get more small businesses to use its Office 365 productivity suite. The offer is available to businesses with over fifty employees, who will be able to access resources from Microsoft’s FastTrack …
Microsoft adds DevTest Labs to Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service
Microsoft has announced another major boost to its Azure cloud computing platform in the shape of its new DevTest Labs integration, aimed at helping developers test their blockchain-based applications. “Blockchain technologies will become even easier to build and test using Azure’s DevTest …
IBM’s Rometty snags a $4.5m bonus
IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty is to be “rewarded” for 15 straight quarters of declining sales and the slow but sure erosion of the firm’s share price with a not inconsiderable $4.5 million bonus. Rometty, whose base salary amounts to $1.6 million a …
Obama to launch $4bn tech education initiative
President Obama has called on Congress to approve a new $4 billion spending plan that would see computer science taught to all elementary, middle and high school students in the U.S. Obama announced his three-year initiative, called “Computer Science for All” during …
Ubuntu lands on Microsoft’s hybrid Azure Stack
Microsoft has made Ubuntu available on the technical preview of Azure Stack, it’s newly release private and hybrid cloud bundle for on-premises deployment. Released earlier this week, Azure Stack is a technology bundle that allows customers to build the Azure Cloud in …
Gartner: Most enterprises are gearing up for Windows 10
Microsoft is willing to go to all kinds of lengths to push PC users onto Windows 10, but its new operating system is already seeing significant success in the enterprise, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. The analyst firm says …
Wal-Mart takes OneOps off the shelf, sticks it on GitHub
Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is getting into the open-source game, unleashing the code for its cloud management and application lifecyle platform OneOps on GitHub for the entire world to slice and dice. For those who’re unfamiliar, OneOps is platform for developers …