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Diane Greene took to the stage at GCP Next 2016 yesterday, with the message that Google’s Cloud Platform is ready to rock ‘n’ roll in the enterprise. Google Cloud Platform has been steadily growing its offerings over the last year, while at …
Google unveils Stackdriver, a unified monitoring tool for AWS and Google’s cloud
Google took the wraps off of its Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool at GCP Next 2016 in San Francisco yesterday, which allows IT managers to monitor traffic, notifications, and diagnostic functions on both the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). …
Microsoft may have just made DCI boxes obsolete
Microsoft may have just landed a death blow to the emerging data center interconnect (DCI) systems market, after developing an alternative to dedicated DCI boxes in partnership with little-known Inphi Corp., a vendor of optical components. These developments were revealed in an …
Cisco revamps engineering business around Cloud and IoT
Networking giant Cisco Systems Ltc. Has just announced a major restructuring of its engineering business unit under CEO Chuck Robbins. The reorganization, announced via an email to Cisco staff from Robbins, will see Cisco’s engineering efforts divided into four separate departments, namely: …
Google adds support for Node.js on App Engine
Google is showing Node.js some love by adding support for the open-source, cross-platform runtime environment on its App Engine service. As of today, Google now offers access to a Node.js runtime via App Engine, which the company says is ideal for hosting …
Report: Marketers increasingly dependent on analytics tools
The average marketer’s skill set has changed dramatically in the last decade, as the use of analytics tools becomes an essential aspect of their daily tasks. That finding comes from Aplitude Inc.’s newly published 2016 State of Analytics Report, which found that …
Microsoft intros new cloud storage plugin for Docker on Azure
Microsoft has made it easier to migrate containers between hosts on its Azure Cloud platform with the release of its new Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage, which allows Docker containers to have data volumes separate from their host. Azure File …
Microsoft’s SQL Server-on-Linux won’t arrive until next year
Microsoft has provided more details about its SQL-Server-on-Linux strategy, a previously unimaginable new coupling that will see Microsoft’s popular database software, SQL Server, appear on Linux operating systems for the first time. As my SiliconANGLE colleague James Farrell pointed out at the …
New York considers tax breaks for developers of open-source software
New York state’s assembly is set to consider a new bill that would provide tax breaks for open-source software developers. Senator Daniel Squadron (D)’s proposed NY senate bill S161, which is also sponsored by Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson (D), will, if enabled, allow …
Google eyes triple acquisition of Shopify, Namely & Xactly to boost cloud portfolio
Google might be trailing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the public cloud, but the search giant-cum-infrastructure provider isn’t giving up the chase just yet – on the contrary, it’s all set to invest millions of dollars in order to build …