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Business listings and review site Yelp has made a surprise contribution to the open-source software world by releasing an internal Docker and Apache Mesos-based platform-as-a-service to the Apache Software Foundation. Yelp engineer Kyle Anderson provides a detailed look at the machinations of …
Microsoft’s targets the Enterprise with first major Windows 10 update
Microsoft rolled out the first major upgrade for Windows 10 yesterday, with a big emphasis on some nifty new enterprise features it’s hoping will tempt more organizations to install the latest edition of its operating system. Along with the more obvious new …
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update is killing Outlook
IT admins are being advised to avoid patching their Windows systems due to a dodgy update that’s causing problems with the Outlook email client. The problems were first brought to light by The Register, which says the issue has to do with …
Microsoft launches Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service on Azure
Microsoft has become the latest and almost certainly the biggest company so far to lend its support to Blockchain technology, with the launch of its new Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service on Azure. Microsoft says the new offering is targeted at customers from the financial …
Piping hot: Why is Apache Kafka catching on?
Having been thrust into the spotlight by IBM last week, Apache Kafka is getting so much attention that it’s threatening to surpass Apache Spark as Big Data’s tech du jour and become a permanent fixture in the Hadoop landscape. Kafka is described …
Cisco and Ericsson partner up because acquisitions “take too long”
Cisco Systems Ltd. announced what could be a critical new partnership with Ericsson AB to work together on building the “networks of the future”. The two firms said the partnership, which encompasses a global service partner agreement and a broad reseller agreement, …
Rackspace is rising: Beats Q3 earnings & revenue guidance
Rackspace Inc. posted its third quarter earnings after the whistle on Monday, blowing past analysts’ expectations with $509 million in revenues, a 10.7 percent increase from one year ago. The company’s net income was $37 million, or $0.26 per share. Wall Street’s …
Teradata’s torment continues in Q3 as revenues decline again
Big Data vendor Teradata Corp. has chalked up another disappointing financial quarter, and has said it’s taking drastic action to rectify the situation by getting out of the business for marketing applications. The company’s revenues fell again, with the $606 million it …
Google intros TensorFlow, a machine learning system for everyone
Google has long been considered a leader in the field of machine learning, and now it’s hoping to share some of its expertise. The Web giant has just open-sourced a new machine learning system called TensorFlow that can do everything from finding …
Prison officials want your help to stop drones delivering drugs
The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has asked the public for ideas to help them stop contraband-laden drones from flying drugs into prisons. While legal drone deliveries won’t take off until next year at the earliest, contraband smugglers have been using quadcopters …