Server sales rising: HP leads the way
It’s anything but doom and gloom for the server industry, despite claims to the contrary. As IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker reveals, sales are actually on the rise, and it all points to…
Is your Bitcoin wallet insured from hackers?
People love Bitcoin for lots of different reasons, whether its the lack of fees, the anonymity, the investment potential or something else. But unfortunately, hackers love Bitcoin for exactly the same reasons – and…
Meet Dr. Watson: IBM’s cancer-busting supercomputer
IBM Corp’s Watson supercomputer is set to tackle scientific research head-on after being re-programmed to analyse Big Data in the cloud. It’s just launched a new system called Watson Discovery Advisor for analyzing scientific…
Hot containers: Microsoft cuddles up to Google’s Kubernetes
Microsoft Corp., has just added support for managing Docker containers in its Azure cloud, with the help of the open-source Kubernetes tool that was designed and built by rival Google Inc. For two companies…
3D Printing Round Up: From Amazon.com to NASA space exploration
By Saroj Kar
As 3D printing continues to find wider adoption, it is quickly entering research, food processing, toy manufacture, aerospace, defense, discrete and industrial production. Over the last few weeks small and large firms are adopting…
Bitcoin Weekly 2014 August 28: Bitcoin trade group forms digital currency PAC, Coinbase gets insured, and merchants see promise in Bitcoin’s future
By Kyt Dotson
This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a relative newcomer on the scene, announced registration to form a PAC to increase the lobbying power of Bitcoin-related interests in the US political space. Reuters is…
EMC’s been following Docker since its inception | #vmworld
The enterprise will undergo a fundamental shift towards hyper-convergence, said Vickram Bhambri, VP of Product Management for EMC Corp.’s Advanced Software Division (ASD). In conversation with Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCUBE, Bhambri…
Tiny modems, new kits for IoT developers
This week’s Smart DevOps roundup features the latest development kit for Internet of Things (IoT) app makers, an updated IoT applications site, and a new IoT modem. Broadcom unveils new WICED Sense development kit…
Using the cloud to change business models | #vmworld
In 2012, the healthcare technology and pharmaceutical provider McKesson Corp. gave itself two years and a small team to change how IT interacted with customers. It demanded a small, agile team willing to experiment…
SAP presses deeper into China with new cloud data center
Business intelligence stalwart SAP SE is pushing deeper into the lucrative Chinese market for enterprise software with a new data center that will deliver cloud services to local firms. The Shanghai facility marks one…