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IBM has fulfilled its promise to open-source SystemML, a machine learning system that’s now been accepted as an Apache Incubator project. It’s a significant milestone for SystemML, which is already used to power IBM’s BigInsights data analytics platform. The Apache Incubator program …
Intel swoops on Qualcomm’s Venkata Renduchintala to lead its IoT biz
Chip-maker king Intel has swooped to hire the former executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies Inc., barely 24 hours after he left his old employer. Dr Venkata “Murthy” Renduchintala has been appointed as the president of Intel’s newly created Client and Internet …
Gartner: Windows 10 adoption to outpace that of Windows 7
Gartner Inc. is predicting good times ahead for Windows 10, saying it fully expects to see an upsurge in enterprise rollouts of the operating system in the first six months of next year. Most enterprises will begin with pilot rollouts before broadening …
NASA proposes FireSat system to detect wildfires from space
NASA says it wants to build a vast new constellation of satellites to monitor and protect the Earth, and it’s turning to an unlikely source of funding – through Kickstarter – in order to do so. But before you start panicking, realize …
Windows Server 2016 preview offers first glimpse of Hyper-V containers
Microsoft has hit a milestone with the inclusion of Hyper-V containers, a new technology designed to support containerized applications, in the fourth technical preview of the upcoming Windows Server 2016 operating system. The release is Microsoft’s attempt to cater to the rapidly …
Jolla’s lost its jolly: Layoffs loom as funding dries up
Finnish mobile maker Jolla has fallen on hard times, just two years after the company debuted the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, an alternative operating system based on Nokia’s old MeeGo platform, whose inventors hoped would become the ‘third’ major mobile operating …
Federal data center consolidation plan goes awry with 2,000 ‘forgotten’ facilities
It turns out that the U.S government’s much-hyped data center consolidation program has spectacularly failed, despite earlier claims that federal agencies had saved around $3.6 billion between 2011 and 2014 by closing down data centers and migrating to the cloud. The stark …
Google lets you build a customized cloud instance in an instant
Google has made an interesting move to woo developers to its cloud platform by allowing them to create compute images with customized memory and virtual CPU configurations. The new feature is called Custom Machine Types, and can basically be thought of as …
Google bags VMware co-founder Diane Greene to transform its cloud business
Google has pulled off a minor coup by convincing VMware Inc. founder Diane Greene to head up its cloud computing business. Greene was convinced to join Google after the Web giant snapped up her latest startup, a company called Bebop Technologies. She’ll …
Cloudera takes aim at Big Data pain with new Hadoop release
Big Data leader Cloudera Inc. is hoping to take the sting out of running Hadoop with the latest release of its flagship Cloudera Enterprise 5.5 platform. The new release includes a limited beta of a new tool that helps customers better understand which …