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Obama snags VMware’s Tony Scott to be the next Federal CIO
Barack Obama might be a bit of a lame duck President these days, but he does at least get to decide who’s in charge of the government’s IT operations. And to hammer that point…
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What you missed in Big Data: Governance (again) tops the industry’s agenda
The past week witnessed a number of major milestones in evolution of enterprise analytics across both the open-source and proprietary camps, which came together around the fundamental challenges of processing data at scale. Hortonworks…
Esports manager threatens to evict player’s mother if he quits
By Eric David
As if the recurring accusations of cheating and match fixing were not enough, the esports world has been hit by yet another scandal after one team manager threatened to have a player’s mother lose her…
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Brocade touts higher-density with new SDN-Enabled VDX switch
Brocade is pushing further into software-defined networking (SDN) territory with an update to its VCS fabric portfolio that includes a new high-density switch which can be deployed automatically in less than a minute. In…
Facebook, LinkedIn team up to encourage more women in tech jobs
By Eric David
A large gender disparity has existed in computer science since the field was first created, but over the last few years, that disparity has been growing rather than shrinking. In 1985, 35 percent of…
Will the mysterious Apache Flink find a sweet spot in the enterprise?
The Apache Software Foundation raised a few eyebrows last week when it announced Apache Flink as its latest Top-Level Project (TLP). The move was surprising because up until now very few people had even…
Corning’s Project Phire combines best of Gorilla Glass and sapphire
By Collen Kriel
Corning Inc., makers of Gorilla Glass used in many of today’s smartphones, has revealed that it is working on a new material that it claims will be as break-resistant as Gorilla Glass, while also…
Line debuts YouTube-like TV service in Thailand
By Collen Kriel
Line Corp., makers of the poplar Line messaging app, announced Friday the launch of ‘Line TV’, a YouTube-like video service, in Thailand. The company touts 181 million active users worldwide and this is the…
Supporting marriage equality at work is the ‘right thing’, says Microsoft, and also good for the bottom line
Following last month’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where diversity and inclusion in the workplace was a key issue under discussion, Microsoft has said it wants to share the company…
Alibaba invests $590 million in little known Chinese phone maker Meizu
By Duncan Riley
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has invested $590 million in a little known Chinese phone maker Meizu Technology Co., Ltd. Based in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, Meizu is said to be one of the top ten smartphone manufacturers…