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Dell close to finalizing $3.5bn sale of IT Services unit to Japan’s NTT
It’s being reported that Dell Inc. is set to announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japanese telecommunications giant NTT Corp. for $3.5 billion later today, finalizing a process that began late last year. Dell wants to sell off the division, which was previously known as Perot Services, in order to help raise ...
Native Docker app lands on Windows & Mac
Being a native application, Docker containers have always been dead easy to get up and running on Linux systems. But that wasn’t the case for Windows and OS X users, until today. Now, Docker Inc. is making things easier for users of those platforms with the beta release of Docker for Windows and Docker for ...
Microsoft wants to finance Yahoo’s takeover to the tune of $1Bn
Yahoo Inc.’s proposed sale has been a long, drawn out affair, but fresh funds from Microsoft may help to accelerate things. According to a report in Re/Code, Microsoft executives are said to be meeting with a number of private equity firms to discuss a possible takeover of the ailing former Internet giant. Re/Code’s Kara Swisher ...
Now you can take a 360-degree virtual tour of Google’s data center
Google’s data centers are among the biggest, most complicated, and sophisticated in the world. But they’re also among the most secure, which means only a few select Google employees ever get a chance to see them up close. Until now. As of today, it’s now possible for anyone to take a look inside the inner ...
Diane Greene gives Google fresh impetus in the Cloud Wars
Diane Greene took to the stage at GCP Next 2016 yesterday, with the message that Google’s Cloud Platform is ready to rock ‘n’ roll in the enterprise. Google Cloud Platform has been steadily growing its offerings over the last year, while at the same time fighting tooth and nail with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft ...
Google unveils Stackdriver, a unified monitoring tool for AWS and Google’s cloud
Google took the wraps off of its Stackdriver cloud monitoring tool at GCP Next 2016 in San Francisco yesterday, which allows IT managers to monitor traffic, notifications, and diagnostic functions on both the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google acquired the technology for Stackdriver when it purchased the company of the ...
Microsoft may have just made DCI boxes obsolete
Microsoft may have just landed a death blow to the emerging data center interconnect (DCI) systems market, after developing an alternative to dedicated DCI boxes in partnership with little-known Inphi Corp., a vendor of optical components. These developments were revealed in an exclusive report by Light Reading, citing comments from Tom Issenhuth, Optical Network Architect ...
Cisco revamps engineering business around Cloud and IoT
Networking giant Cisco Systems Ltc. Has just announced a major restructuring of its engineering business unit under CEO Chuck Robbins. The reorganization, announced via an email to Cisco staff from Robbins, will see Cisco’s engineering efforts divided into four separate departments, namely: Applications and IoT, Cloud Services and Platforms, Network, and Security. In addition, 18-year ...
Google adds support for Node.js on App Engine
Google is showing Node.js some love by adding support for the open-source, cross-platform runtime environment on its App Engine service. As of today, Google now offers access to a Node.js runtime via App Engine, which the company says is ideal for hosting high-performance Web and mobile, front-end and back-end JavaScript-based applications. Google’s Node.js is current ...
Report: Marketers increasingly dependent on analytics tools
The average marketer’s skill set has changed dramatically in the last decade, as the use of analytics tools becomes an essential aspect of their daily tasks. That finding comes from Aplitude Inc.’s newly published 2016 State of Analytics Report, which found that the majority of analytics users are no longer data scientists, but rather mid-to-high ...