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Dropbox ramps up its enterprise appeal ahead of expected IPO
Cloud storage vendor Dropbox Inc. is stepping up its enterprise push in order to get more profitable ahead of an expected initial public offering of stock, adding a set of new business-oriented features to its product. Dropbox, which boasts some 500 million users (including 200,000 companies currently using Dropbox Business), just announced AdminX, a new ...
Databricks ships out “easier, faster, smarter” Apache Spark 2.0
The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s incredible popularity means it’s become one of the most active open-source Big Data projects of them all, approaching the same level as Apache Hadoop, one of the oldest and ...
Drone delivery startup Flirtey flies first ever Slurpee to a customer’s home
As Amazon.com Inc., illustrated yesterday when it announced its moving its drone testing operations to the U.K., the U.S. lags behind other nations in the field due to strict regulations implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). But the fact is, robotic delivery services seem all but inevitable, with the first ever drone delivery test ...
DataStax injects a graph database into DSE 5.0 release
DataStax Inc. yesterday announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 5.0, its database for cloud applications that’s based on the open-source NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra. DataStax’s software, which the company describes as “always on”, also leverages other open-source technologies including Apache Hadoop, the Apache Spark data processing engine ,and Apache Solr, a search platform ...
Mirantis spearheads effort to deploy OpenStack on Docker containers
The upstart OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. has said it’s teaming up with Google and Intel to advance the development of Fuel, a lifecycle management tool, so that OpenStack can be deployed in containers. The idea is to allow Fuel to use Kubernetes as its underlying orchestration engine. Once that’s ready, the partners say they’ll work ...
Amazon to carry out Prime Air delivery drone tests in the U.K.
With the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration refusing to budge on its strict requirement that commercially operated drones must fly within the operator’s line of sight at all times, Amazon.com Inc., has announced plans to start testing flights in the U.K. instead. Amazon revealed it has started working with the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority to carry ...
Microsoft beefs up Windows 10 with new enterprise security features
With just one week to go before Microsoft launches its major Windows 10 Anniversary update, much of the focus has been on the new consumer-oriented features of the OS. But Redmond chiefs are quietly hoping that new security capabilities in the updated OS will help to reel in a few more enterprise customers too. First ...
Is your organization ready for Windows 10? This tool will let you know
Microsoft is hoping to ease Windows 10 adoption in the enterprise with a new tool designed to show IT admins if their PC fleets are ready for the new OS. The tool is called Upgrade Analytics and was released in preview on July 22. It’s part of Microsoft’s Operations Management Suite (OMS), a cloud-based IT ...
Microsoft to switch Windows Server team to its Windows & Devices Group
There’s a bit of an organizational reshuffle going on over at Microsoft, which has revealed it’s going to switch the engineering team responsible for Windows Server from its Cloud and Enterprise business unit to the Windows and Devices Group, which means that all versions of the Windows operating system are now under the same umbrella. ...
Amazon patent reveals “drone docking stations” for its Prime Air service
It was almost two and a half years ago that Amazon.com Inc. first put forward the idea of using drones to deliver packages to its customers via its “Prime Air” service. But while the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has been dragging its feet to create legislation that would legally delivery drones to operate, Amazon has ...