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Container technology is one of the fastest-growing trends in cloud computing because it promises to help data center managers avoid the complexity of managing virtual machines in the cloud. But although container technology is far simpler than VMs in principle, many IT …
DJI’s Manifold gives drones the power of a PC
Popular Chinese drone maker DJI Inc. is no longer just targeting hobbyists. The company is touting the Manifold, or in its own words “the most powerful computer designed for drones”, an embedded computer powered by a quad-core ARM Cortex A-15 processor. The …
HP Inc. shares skyrocket by 13% following split
The newly divorced HP Inc. raised a few eyebrows in the wake of its split yesterday when its share price jumped by more than 13 percent – in contrast to its ex, HP Enterprise, which saw its shares slump by more than …
EMC shareholder makes legal bid to block Dell takeover
A disgruntled EMC Corp. shareholder has thrown a potential legal spanner in the works ahead of its $67 billion takeover by Dell Inc., by filing a lawsuit that aims to block the acquisition. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Bloomberg, was …
Typesafe sends Apache Spark flying with commercial support
Typesafe Inc., the company co-founded by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, has announced full commercial support for the Apache Spark Big data processing engine. The move was announced at the Spark Summit Europe event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, last week, …
Rackspace offers up Carina containers-as-a-service in beta
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Inc. is now offering containers-as-a-service through in beta through its newly announced Carina service. Carina is a hosted Docker-based container service that’s currently only available to customers in the U.S. It provides a fully managed implementation of Docker …
Amazon, Google & Wal-Mart to work with FAA on drone regs
Delivery drone wannabees Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. have signed on to a government task force headed up by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help devise an identification and registration system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All three companies …
How the “Big Three” cloud vendors plan to differentiate their services
Last week saw Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft all reported stunning growth in their respective cloud computing segments. The numbers underline what IT watchers have known for some time already – that there’s an almost insatiable appetite for the public cloud …
Report: IT staff are the biggest threat to IT security
The biggest risk to IT security isn’t posed by malware or hackers or even the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on your infrastructure. Rather, the most immediate danger lies much closer to home, with your IT staff posing the most imminent …
IBM in advanced talks to acquire The Weather Co.’s digital assets for $2B
IBM is said to be close to acquiring the digital and data assets of The Weather Company, with talks said to be at an advanced stage, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper cites the usual “people familiar with the situation” …