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Mesosphere’s Data Center OS launches into general availability
Mesosphere, Inc. has announced the general availability of its Data Center Operating System (DCOS), the latest gambit in its bid to rule the data center and make everything fully virtualized. The company said the free community edition of its software is available in the cloud, alongside an enterprise edition that can be deployed anywhere. Mesosphere ...
Talkdesk nabs $15M to spin up cloud-based call centers
The telephone might be rather old as far as technology standards go, but there’s no doubt it’s still one of our favorite ways to communicate with companies, especially when we require a fast response. Which might explain when San Francisco-based Talkdesk Inc. with its browser-based call center software for sales, support and marketing has just ...
Facebook kicks satellite plans into touch
Facebook has reportedly given up on a project to launch an Internet-delivering satellite into orbit, according to a report in The Information. Amir Efrati writes that the previously unknown project (outside of Facebook) would have set the social media giant back a whopping $500 million. Admittedly that’s only half what Facebook paid to get its ...
Apple makes a Swift shift to open-source
Apple is open-sourcing its Swift programming language in a bid to make it more pervasive. The Swift language’s compiler and iOS, OS X and Linux libraries will be made available under an open-source license by the end of the year, said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, at the company’s 2015 Worldwide ...
Teradata adopts Presto for Hadoop SQL queries
Big Data analytics firm Teradata Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind the open-source Presto project, which provides an SQL query engine for interactive queries. This could be a very big deal. Presto was, like so many open-source projects, born as an internal project inside Facebook in 2012. The engine is still heavily used by ...
Microsoft opens first Transparency Center in Europe
Microsoft has opened the doors to a new “Transparency Center” in Brussels, allowing European governments to review the source code of its software to ensure it doesn’t contain any “backdoors” that might allow U.S. intelligence agencies to snoop on their data. The center, which was opened last week, gives governments the opportunity to review and assess ...
Google’s cloud analytics focus is a smokescreen, analysts say
Google might have lost the cloud race to Amazon Web Services, but it certainly hasn’t lost the war. Not yet anyway. Instead of chasing its rivals for market share, Google is heading down a different path, said Brian Stevens, the company’s vice president of cloud platform in an interview with Computerworld. “It’s not about catching ...
Cockroach Labs gets $6.25M to build a more resilient database
Cockroach Labs, the startup behind the funky-sounding CockroachDB database, last week announced its first round of funding, a series A totaling $6.25 million. The round was led by Benchmark, whose lead investor Peter Fenton joins the board of Cockroach Labs as part of the arrangement. Fenton is well known for having backed a number of ...
Get ready for The Machine: HP to unveil prototype next year
Hewlett-Packard Company has said it will have a prototype of its fabled “Machine” computer ready by next year for its partners to start building software on, though a finished product is still five years away. HP revealed its ambitious plans for the Machine last year, saying it aimed to redefine how computers are built in ...
Report: Almost 30% of physical servers sitting idle in data centers
A new report released this week has made the startling find that more than 10 million physical servers deployed in data centers around the world are sitting idle, not being used. The discovery was made by researchers from the IT consulting firm Anthesis Group, Stanford University and TSO Logic, a provider of data center analytics ...