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Red Hat focused firmly on security & stability in RHEL 6.7 release
Red Hat Inc. has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7, after the latest version of its popular distro left its beta period. RHEL users might be disappointed that there are no major new features in the latest edition. Instead, the focus has been on security and stability, with the arrival ...
Amazon shares rocket on AWS growth
Amazon.com Inc. posted its second quarter financial results late on Thursday, and the news was met with rather more applause than its lackluster Prime Day effort last week. On Thursday, the company reported $1.8 billion in sales for Q2, an 80 percent increase from the same period last year. Altogether, the company raked in profits ...
Hortonworks’ cloud agnostic HDP 2.3 hits general availability
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks Inc. announced the general availability of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.3 at the Hadoop Summit yesterday, less than a month after it first unveiled the release. At the time Hortonworks first showed of HDP 2.3, the company said the biggest update was it can now be automatically provisioned in any ...
Microsoft to give 10 years of support for Windows 10 to everyone
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 users will be given free feature and functionality updates for exactly ten years from the time they first buy the operating system – for example, on a new device. This was revealed through Microsoft’s latest update to its Windows lifecyle fact sheet. The document lists a number of milestone ...
Sony’s enterprise drones ready to take off next year
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is getting into the drone business. The company said it’s going to create a joint venture with another Japanese firm to build UAVs that capture images and other data for business uses. Sony’s mobile arm is teaming up with ZMP Inc., a Tokyo-based robotics firm, to build its drones. But before ...
BlackBerry furthers enterprise push with Athoc acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. is continung its Phoenix-like rise from the ashes with the acquisition of AtHoc Inc., a provider of secure, networked crisis communications to enterprises and government organizations. The deal was announced late Wednesday, and sees BlackBerry acquire a powerful tool as it looks to bolster its own secure messaging services. AtHoc’s software is essentially ...
Silicon Valley big guns side with Samsung in Apple patent case
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has received the unlikely backing of a host of Silicon Valley tech firms as its long-running patent dispute with Apple rumbles on. The unlikely coalition, which includes Google, eBay Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc., and Facebook, has filed what’s known as a “friend of the court” brief in support of Samsung’s ...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation bids to kickstart container interoperability
The Linux Foundation is teaming up with 18 technology giants and IT organizations to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, an initiative that’s hoping to make it easier for businesses to build and deploy containerized cloud applications oriented around microservices. The main goal of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is to determine the current ...
SAP’s on cloud cruise control as Q2 revenues rise
SAP SE bucked the trend among poor performing legacy software vendors, reporting rising revenues as customers rushed to snap up its new cloud offerings, though the company’s overall profits took a hit due to a tendency among buyers to choose lower-end services. On Wednesday, Germany-based SAP reported second quarter operating profits of €701 million ($766 ...
Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz plot a route to buy Nokia’s HERE mapping service
We’ve known for a while that German auto makers Audi AG, BMW AG, and Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz have been looking to acquire Nokia Corp.’s HERE Maps service, and The Wall Street Journal now says the deal has almost been done. On Tuesday, the publication said the German firms have agreed a deal worth “slightly more ...