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U.S Military drops $1.6B VMware contract after protests
The Defence Information Security Agency (DISA) reversed a decision to award VMware Inc. with a $1.6 billion contract, following a protest by number of tech companies last February. The Pentagon’s decision to cancel its joint enterprise licensing agreement with VMware means the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was able to dismiss protests against the award made ...
Microsoft previews Office 2016 & Skype for Business
Microsoft rolled out a couple of new software previews this morning, including the first look at Office 2016 for Windows, and a technical preview of its Skype for Business client, which basically blends the enterprise features of Microsoft Lync with the world’s most popular VoIP program. The releases are designed to put the software in ...
Fujitsu offers up cool liquid answer to smartphone overheating
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu Ltd. has hit upon a novel way to cool down smartphones that it says is five times as effective as metal and graphite sheets. As most smartphone users will appreciate, one of the problems associated with ever-more powerful devices is that they tend to get extremely hot when they’re being used, ...
Apache Tajo’s Big Data warehouse comes to Hadoop
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has just announced the relatively unknown Apache Tajo open source data warehouse software is ready for commercial use, almost two years after it first became a top-level project, and five years after its development began. Tajo is an SQL-on-Hadoop platform that’s designed to help organizations extract more intelligence from their ...
HP targets white box market with “no-frills” Cloudline servers
Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a lead from the likes of Facebook and Microsoft with a new line of low-cost Cloudline servers that embrace the concept of open hardware designs. HP’s cheap and cheerful “no-frills” servers are a radical departure from the proprietary tech in its high-end Proliant servers. They’re based on the specifications established by ...
IBM’s Rometty stays bullish on Big Blue’s “transformation”
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has released her annual Chairman’s Letter to the company’s shareholders, telling them that last year was “a critical year of transformation” for the company, yet much work remains to be done. In the letter, Rometty noted the company’s disappointing financial results reflected this period of transition, but she said it was ...
China launches “Internet Plus” initiative to take over the Web
China has launched a new drive to help its local Internet companies gain more impetus in international markets, and it’s putting its money where its mouth is by funneling more government cash into its emerging tech industry, according to reports. The initiative, called “Internet Plus” was announced by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the country’s ...
Salesforce adds Intelligence Engine to its Service Cloud
Salesforce.com is touting a new platform which it says can help companies take advantage of “data science” to deliver better customer services. Called the “Intelligence Engine” for its Service Cloud, the platform is designed to leverage the increasing amounts of data being fed into organizations by the Internet of Things, and deliver a more rapid ...
Google suffers new cloud outage, promises to be “better prepared”
Google’s cloud platform suffered another outage over the weekend in an incident that seems similar to a more serious brownout that took place last month. Google said the latest outage affecting its Compute Engine, which was first reported by The Register, came about due to a “packet loss on agress network traffic”, which caused an ...
Gartner: Legacy vendors stay on top of the data analytics tree
The old legacy database vendors might still be the top dogs when it comes to data analytics, but their Hadoop-wielding rivals are hot on their heels, according to Gartner Inc.’s latest magic quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics. In its latest analysis, Gartner closely examined the solutions of 17 analytics vendors, ...