Saroj Kar

Saroj is a Staff Writer at SiliconANGLE covering DevOps, Emerging Tech, Mobile and Gaming news. If you have a story idea or tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Docker goes commercial for open source container virtualization

The Docker.io, the open source virtualization container technology project, celebrated its one-year anniversary on March 20 and the company has been quick enough to introduce new services including a commercial service to start making money. Docker is one of the fastest growing open source projects currently. Docker containers provide some of the attributes of virtualization, but ...

Major IT and Telecom players team up for the standardization of Internet of Things

Last year, the Linux Foundation accused corporations of hindering interoperability necessary to the advancement of the Internet of Things by driving the adoption of proprietary technologies and announced the creation of AllSeen Alliance, focused on electronics. Now, four manufacturers and telecom operator announced the creation of the IIC – Industrial Internet Consortium, focused on the ...

Social network giants introduce WebScaleSQL, the scalable and customizable MySQL database

Databases are used to manage information and to make programs available. These include meta-data such as user. They can also be searched by certain criteria and are useful in statistics and data analysis. MySQL deployment and MySQL communities services continue to grow as the standard open source database for large companies. But to store the ...

Two tech giants and a popular actor aim to translate computer that thinks like a person

What connects the two tech giants and popular actor Demi Moore’s ex-husband together? According to the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Ashton Kutcher joined the ranks to incest $40 million into Vicarious FPC, a secret artificial intelligence (AI) corporation. Last month, Google invested $400 million in order to acquire the DeepMind company. ...

The cloud first SQL Server 2014 coming in April with in-memory and cloud capabilities

Two years after the arrival of SQL Server 2012, which focused on the analysis of data in memory and the cloud, Microsoft is ready for next iteration of the RDMBS database. The general availability of SQL Server 2014 has been set for April 1st by Microsoft, the eve of the opening of its Build developers ...

Ubuntu releases Juju Quickstart and Charm bundles to deploy, integrate and scale services instantly

The growing adoption of Ubuntu Server has accounted for Canonical’s one main reason to focus on development concerning the integration of various components (the OpenStack hypervisor, the distributed filesystem Ceph and orchestration suite Juju), as well as on simplifying the deployment of the various services that can give life to a cloud environment. Juju, the ...

Virtual reality could be the next big computing platform for Facebook after $2 billion Oculus VR acquisition

After the announcement of the virtual reality helmet Project Morpheus by Sony, everyone expected some move on the edge of Oculus VR, which produces the competitor Oculus Rift. In fact, there was one at the recently concluded Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, with the announcement of a second version of the developer kit, but ...

Red Hat turns a little more to business with Ruby, Nginx and MongoDB support

Red Hat Software Collections response to changing needs of developers, provides access to newer, updated and reliable versions of popular dynamic languages ​​and open source databases. This allows organizations to develop software faster on a modern platform across physical, virtual and cloud environments without the potential risks of non-supported community projects. Extending the software collection, ...

How Wit.ai aims to use natural language processing to transform IoT

Understanding natural language is becoming an increasingly commonplace goal within the tech industry. Software built around these new technologies is changing our lives. These new systems are enabling our personal devices to better adapt and anticipate to what we need, right when we ask for it. As a first step towards a complete, general linguistic ...

Embarcadero Appmethod: a new cross-platform IDE for Android, iOS, Windows and OS X

Embarcadero Technologies is best known for its software development tools and database, even if the company also offers solutions for system modeling. With a new integrated development environment (IDE), the company hoping to capture the mobile market and ease the burden of application developers with a cross operating system platform. The cross-platform IDE called Appmethod ...