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IT workers overwhelmingly support net neutrality, survey finds
An overwhelming majority of information technology workers in the U.S. agree that any moves by the Donald Trump administration to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called net neutrality rules will damage the industry. In fact, many believe that if the rules are overturned, it will lead to increased costs and slower upload and download speeds. ...
Microsoft reaffirms UK data center expansion plans following Brexit import tariff fears
Microsoft Corp. has published a statement reaffirming its commitment to the United Kingdom, following comments from a senior manager about the impact that potential post-Brexit hardware import tariffs might have on its plans for investing in data centers in the country. The statement came in response to a number of misleading stories suggesting that Microsoft might pull out ...
Cisco swoops in to buy AppDynamics for $3.7B, just before its IPO
So much for the first big tech IPO of 2017. Cisco Systems Inc. late Tuesday surprised investors eager to see the return of technology initial public offerings, announcing it has agreed to buy AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion in cash and equity awards. The startup was still speaking to investors at noon Tuesday, according to a ...
Microsoft expands FastTrack support for Windows 10, Dynamics 365 and Teams
Microsoft Corp. said it’s expanding its FastTrack services to support Windows 10, Dynamics 365 and its upcoming Microsoft Teams collaboration software. The company is hoping that by doing so, it will help its enterprise customers to adopt those products more rapidly. “Just like FastTrack for Office 365 and EMS, FastTrack for Windows 10 and Dynamics 365 ...
Platform9 intros new managed services for application containers
Self-proclaimed “open-source-as-a-service” company Platform9 Systems Inc. is doing its bit to lighten the load of application container developers. The company has just announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes offering along with the introduction of a new, open-source, serverless framework built on the Kubernetes container orchestration tool that it claims is an alternative to ...
Microsoft adds support for SUSE Linux in latest SQL Server preview
Microsoft Corp. has announced it now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise in its latest preview of the new SQL Server. The SQL Server vNext Community Technology Preview (CTP 1.2) has just been released on Windows and Linux, ahead of a full release expected later this year. Previous releases of the database software already added support for ...
Gartner says strong growth is coming to the semiconductor industry in 2017
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is forecasting a prosperous year for global semiconductor manufacturers, with revenues set to rise by 7.2 percent in 2017 from last year. The market could certainly do with a boost. In 2016, semiconductor revenues totaled $339.7 billion, a slight 1.5 percent increase from 2015. But Gartner said in its Semiconductor Forecast ...
Docker 1.13 release improves storage management, orchestration tools
Docker Inc. has announced the release of its latest container engine, Docker 1.13, with new capabilities that boost its storage efficiency and enhance the Docker Swarm container orchestration service. One of the main new features Docker 1.13 adds is a number of new commands that give users greater control over how storage space is used. ...
Apple hits Qualcomm with $1B lawsuit alleging patent abuse
Apple Inc. is taking a lead from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, slapping mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. with a $1 billion lawsuit that alleges the company demanded excessive royalty fee payments for cell phone technology patents it holds. The news comes after the FTC said last week it was charging Qualcomm for violating laws ...
Microsoft makes Intel’s Clear Linux operating system available on Azure
Microsoft Corp. has added support for yet another Linux platform on its Azure cloud: Clear Linux, an open-source operating system tuned specifically for hardware running Intel Corp.’s processors. Clear Linux is now available on the Azure Marketplace as a virtual machine, which is an operating system installed on software that acts like dedicated hardware. Intel launched ...