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Containers & KVMs go head-to-head in IBM Research study
IBM Research Division has just published a paper detailing a side-by-side comparison of Docker containers versus the KVM hypervisor, highlighting the latter’s cost when used with NAT or AUFS, and questioning the wisdom of running containers inside virtual machines. Big Blue’s boffins compared the two technologies using the linear-equation solving package Linpack, network bandwidth using ...
IBM’s X86 server sale to Lenovo gets a green light
The sale of IBM Corp’s low-end server division to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., has finally been granted the go-ahead by US regulators. The Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) has given the thumbs up to the acquisition, which will see Lenovo take IBM’s X86 server business unit off its hands in a $2.3 billion deal. “Lenovo can ...
Ditch Windows 7 now to avoid migration headaches, says Gartner
So you’ve finally decided to take heed of the warnings and upgrade your old Windows XP PCs ? That’s great, but now you should start planning ditch Windows 7 too. That’s the advice of research firm Gartner Inc., which has just said that in spite of Microsoft’s promise to support Windows 7 until 2020, firms ...
Visual Studio Online hit by another major outage
Microsoft Corp’s Visual Studio Online service for software developers was hit by its second major outage in the space of a month yesterday, and was inaccessible to users for about four hours. Microsoft has since blamed the snafu on problems with its database. Visual Studio Online was launched in November last year, coinciding with the ...
Oracle rolls out 32-core SPARC M7 chip with in-memory processing
Say what you like about Oracle Corporation’s CEO Larry Ellision, but he’s sticking to his guns this time around. When his company acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion back in 2010, he said that Oracle wanted to control its own hardware and built specialized kit tuned to run its software stack. And despite slow sales ...
Can technology help to cure depression?
In the wake of Robin William’s tragic suicide following years of suffering from depression, the spotlight has fallen on ways to treat the illness and prevent future deaths. The focus has always been on medicine or therapy, but recently a number of technologies have emerged that could potentially play a role in curing acute depression. ...
Intel battles Parkinson’s disease with Big Data and wearable tech
Intel Corporation wants to use wearable technology to combat Parkinson’s Disease. While other companies fiddle around with wrist bands designed to improve our fitness or track our heart rates, the chip maker has teamed up with the Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF) for Parkinson’s Research to try and find a cure for the world’s second-most ...
OpenStack adds hosted private cloud category to marketplace
OpenStack has just added a new Hosted Private Cloud category to its Marketplace vendor comparison site, in a move it says represents growing interest in the option from customers. The new category includes products and service from Aptira, AURO, Blue Box, IBM, DataCentred, Metacloud, Mirantis, Morphlabs, Rackspace and UnitedStack. All of these products and services ...
Google, HP reported to be teaming on Google Now for business
Android has struggled to make inroads in the enterprise market so far, but Google isn’t about to throw in the towel just yet. Rumors emerged yesterday that the search giant is teaming up with Hewlett-Packard Co. to develop a business-oriented version of Google Now to help workers access company data quickly and easily via their ...
CoreOS snaps up Quay.io to deliver private Docker Repositories
The lightweight Linux vendor CoreOS has made a move to flesh out its business offerings by snapping up Docker container hosting firm Quay.io for an undisclosed sum. Quay.io has developed software that companies can use to stitch together applications while keeping their creations safe and isolated from the rest of the world. It’s a host ...