How flexible is the hybrid cloud? | #RHSummit
You may not realize when you’re traveling that every time you book a flight, board a plane, or look for your luggage, you’re probably using Amadeus Data Processing. It’s really at the heart of…
Three open-source partners and a wedding: A groundbreaking keynote at Red Hat Summit | #RHSummit
As the day two afternoon keynotes commenced at the Red Hat Summit 2016, held in San Francisco, partnership and collaboration were the themes. Industry leaders for SparkFun, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Accenture, LLP spoke about…
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Seagate to lay off 1,600 workers in latest cost-cutting move
Seagate Technology PLC is set to become a much leaner company by the end of the year. The disk maker revealed in a regulatory filing this week that it’s planning to cut 1,600 positions…
Storage ‘whiz kid’ Walsh returning to IBM to run storage division
By Paul Gillin
He just couldn’t stay away. Less than three years after leaving a position as vice president and business line executive for IBM Storage, Ed Walsh is returning, this time to run the whole show.…
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Watson chatbots on the way? IBM and Cisco enter AI-focused collaboration alliance
After years of cooperation in the data center market, IBM Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are extending their partnership to enterprise collaboration. The vendors today announced plans to link their respective communications products with…
OpenShift diversified: How Red Hat has tailored its platform for everyone | #RHSummit
By Tim Hawkins
Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has been around for a number of years, but due to some recent rebranding, some may think the product has changed in some way. Has it? While OpenShift is still the…
Google’s massive undersea cable boosts connection between US and Japan
By Eric David
Today, a consortium of six companies, including Google, is set to activate FASTER, an enormous undersea fiber optic cable that stretches thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean between the US and Japan. The cable…
Container networking closing the gap on virtualization | #RHSummit
In order to be a great application developer, do you need to understand the stacks and orchestration? David Ward, CTO of Engineering and chief architect at Cisco Systems, Inc., argued that is not the…
Olympics broadcast in virtual reality exclusively on Samsung Gear VR
By Eric David
The 2016 Summer Olympics are right around the corner, and while most of us are probably not fortunate enough to be able to travel to Brazil and watch the games in person, NBC will…
European facilities management giant buys in to IBM Watson IoT
By Paul Gillin
European facilities provider ISS A/S has signed an agreement with IBM to use the Watson IoT cognitive computing platform to change the way it manages more than 25,000 buildings worldwide. The $75 billion firm…